Striking miners and police clashed earlier on Tuesday, with authorities using rubber bullets and tear gas as workers tried to block access to the state-owned firm's mine.
“Copper mining in Chile has become more and more difficult as ore bodies decline, the target rocks are increasingly harder, and water is getting far more expensive.
The Canadian miner is moving full-speed with construction of its Kakula — the stage one, six-million-tonne-per-annum (6 Mtpa) operation — that is part of the vast Kamoa-Kakula copper mining complex.
