BHP said on Tuesday operations at its sprawling Escondida copper mine, the world's largest, and at the smaller Spence mine in Chile continued as normal despite a continuing strike by a remote operations union of workers. The 200-member union, which runs BHP's Integrated Operations Center in Santiago, walked off the job on Thursday.
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A union representing workers at BHP Group’s Escondida and Spence copper mines has rejected the company´s contract offer, it told Reuters, and called on members to walk off the job from Thursday.
Copper price rises as looming strikes in Chile add to supply worries
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Copper prices advanced on Wednesday, as a workers’ strike in Chile threatened already low supplies in the raw material market.
Futures prices for copper metal for delivery in July was up 0.51%, at $4.52 ($9,944 per tonne) on Wednesday afternoon on the Comex market in New York.
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A union representing workers at BHP Group’s Escondida and Spence copper mines has rejected the company’s contract offer,
Reuters reported, and called on members to walk off the job starting Thursday. Escondida is the world’s largest copper mine.