Chile’s mines minister holds 2019 copper price prediction at $3.05 per pound

Chile’s mines minister Baldo Prokurica on Friday maintained the government’s 2019 copper price prediction of $3.05 per pound.

Prokurica told a press conference in Santiago he was holding the price outlook amid optimism around US-China trade talks taking place in Washington at present.

(By Marion Giraldo and Aislinn Laing; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)