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SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Multiple factors could have caused a sinkhole near a copper mine in Chile owned by Canada's Lundin Mining, the president of the miner's local unit said, disagreeing with a government assessment that it was likely responsible for the phenomenon.

Multiple factors could have caused a sinkhole near a copper mine in Chile owned by Canadas Lundin Mining, the president of the miners local unit said, disagreeing with a government assessment that

The people of Potosí, like the people of Tierra Amarilla in Chile, imagine extraction that is controlled by those who live nearby without destroying the earth.

The people of Potosí, Bolivia, like those of Tierra Amarilla, Chile, want to imagine a different kind of extraction, write Vijay Prashad and Taroa Zuniga Silva. By Vijay Prashad and Taroa Zuniga Silva Peoples Dispatch In late July, a large sinkhole appeared near the town of Tierra Amarilla

A large sinkhole appeared, near the town of Tierra Amarilla in Chile’s Copiapó province in the Atacama salt flat, in late July. The crater, which has a diameter of more than 100 feet, emerged in one of Chile’s most lucrative regions for copper and lithium extraction. The nearby Candelaria mining complex — 80% owned by Canada’s Lundin Mining Corporation and 20% by Japan’s

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SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's SMA environmental regulator said on Tuesday it had issued a series of measures against a copper mine owned by Canada's Lu...

The SMA ordered six "urgent and transitory" measures while it continues to investigate causes that generated the sinkhole that measures 36.5 meters.

Authorities believe that overextraction of material from mines could be the cause of the mysterious sinkhole that popped up in Chile.

The mining ministry signed an alliance with the state university network for the implementation of a lithium research center.