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 ...

Iquique, like many cities along Chile’s dusty northern coast, is historically home to miners and their families—a legacy of the saltpetre industry that founded the city and the copper mines ...

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 ...