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Hundreds of people, many of them children, have fallen ill after being exposed to toxic pollution since the beginning of June in the Chilean cities of Quintero and Puchuncaví. With widespread pollution…

As of Friday June 17, the SMM Imported Copper Concentrate Index (weekly) stood at $73.91/mt, $1.36/mt lower than the previous week.

Unions had threatened to strike for the past week if the Codelco board did not invest to upgrade the Ventanas smelter.

By Fabian Cambero SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chilean state-owned Codelco, the largest copper producer in the world, will start a "path to close" the trouble...

Chile President Gabriel Boric Friday said the state-owned copper producer would begin the closure of the troubled Ventanas smelter after dozens fell ill due to an environmental emergency in the vicini. Chile to close copper mining smelter after environmental emergency | Business | English edition | Agencia EFE

SANTIAGO — Workers at Chilean state-owned miner Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, said on Saturday they will start preparations for a national…

Santiago de Chile, June 17 (EFE).- Chile President Gabriel Boric Friday said the state-owned copper producer would begin the closure of the troubled Ventanas smelter after dozens fell ill due to an environmental emergency in the vicinity of the plant. Codelco decided to close the facility after a peak in sulfur dioxide emissions in the …

London copper and aluminium prices edged higher on Friday, but the metals were on track for weekly declines as the dollar held firm and worries grew that rising interest rates would dent global economic growth. Three-month aluminium on the London Metal Exchange was up 0.6% at $2,520 a tonne, as of 0505 GMT, after falling ...

LONDON — Copper prices recovered slightly

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Workers at Chilean state-owned Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, maintained the threat of a strike on Wednesday if a ...