The giant miner BHP Billiton announced this week a 129% increase in the mineral resource at and around Chile’s Escondida, the world's biggest copper mine. If it can convert this to the more ...

The San Antonio de Padua Church and Franciscan Convent in Iquique was destroyed in a fire two weeks before a milestone ...

Chilean miner Codelco has requested an environmental permit to extend the life of its Gabriela Mistral copper mine by more ...

A worker walks near a drill rig in a pit at Anglo American's Los Bronces copper mine in Chile (This Dec. 23 story has been corrected to fix the Los Bronces output figures in 2023 to 215,500 metric ...