Chile’s copper output jumps in December

Worker washing copper cathodes at an electrowinning plant in a copper mine in Chile. Stock image.

Copper output in Chile, the world’s largest producer of the red metal, increased 14.3% year-on-year in December to 566,547 metric tons, the country’s INE statistics agency said on Friday.

Manufacturing production in the Andean nation was up 8.4% in the period from a year earlier, the agency added.

(By Fabian Cambero and Natalia Siniawski; Editing by Gabriel Araujo)


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