Codelco enjoying one of its best years ‘ever’, profits jump to $5.3 billion

The world’s top copper producer, Chile’s Codelco, said on Friday it produced 1.25 million tonnes of copper in the nine months to September, up 3.5 percent from the same period last year. The state-run miner said pre-tax profits rose 37 percent during the January-September period from a year earlier to $5.3 billion.

Codelco is having one of its best production years ever, and will beat its 1.7 million tonne output target for 2011, Chairman Gerardo Jofre told Reuters on Wednesday.

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