Vale Q2 iron ore output up 2.4% from a year earlier
The company reported output of 80.6 million metric tons for the steel-making ingredient in the three-month period ended in June.
Chile’s total copper production fell14% year on year in May to 408,200 metric tons, government body Cochilco said on Wednesday.
Production from state-owned giant Codelco fell 22.4% on a year-on-year basis to 110,900 metric tons, while production at Collahuasi, a joint venture of Anglo American and Glencore, dropped 11.8% to 43,200 metric tons.
Copper output from Escondida, which is controlled by Anglo Australian mining giant BHP, fell 21.5% to 83,900 metric tons, Cochilco said.
(By Fabian Cambero and Carolina Pulice; Editing by Isabel Woodford)
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