According to the Bnamericas website, the latest monthly report by the Chilean National Copper Commission (COCHILCO) shows that the country’s copper production was 510,400 tonnes in October, up 15.1% per cent year-on-year, the highest rate since December 2016.
Compared with 476,500 tonnes in October, copper production increased by 7.1%. In the first 10 months, Chilean copper production was 4.47 million tonnes, down 2.1% per cent from a year earlier.
BHP’s Escandidas (Escondida) copper mine fell 13.2% per cent from a year earlier to 712,300 tonnes, after a 44-day strike by workers.
Chile’s National Copper Company (CODELCO) produced 1.5 million tonnes in the first 10 months, down 1.6% year-on-year. The production of Chukikhamatta (Chuquicamata)-Radomirotomic (Radomiro Tomic)-Harbin (Ministro Hales) is 686,100 tonnes, down 4.4% from a year earlier. The production of Teniente copper mine was 386,800 tonnes, down 1.9% from a year earlier. BHP’s smallest copper mine, El Salvador (Salvador), produced 50,000 tonnes, up 3.1% per cent from a year earlier.
The first 10 months of Codelco’s copper mine were 182,500 tonnes, up 15.4% from a year earlier, while Gabriele Mistral (Gabriela Mistral) Copper production was 102,600 tonnes, down 0.8%.
Chile’s second-largest copper mine, the Anglo-American group and Glencore’s joint-venture Coyavasi (COLLAHUASI) copper mine production of 427,600 tons, year-on-year growth of 1.2%. The production of Los Pelambresse (Los pelambres) copper mine, a Antofagasta mining company (Antofagasta Minerals), was 291,300 tonnes, down 3.6%. The production of Gadelaria (Candelaria) copper mine in Lending Mining Co. (Lundin Mining) was 128,100 tonnes, increasing by 22.7%.
Anglo-American group in Chile’s southern Company production of 289,600 tons, a year-on-year decline of 2.4%. Antofagasta and Barclays Gold’s joint venture Zardiva (Zaldivar) copper mine produced 86,700 tonnes, up 2.2%.
Freeport McMoRan (Freeport-mcmoran) holds a 51% stake, and Codelco’s 49%-owned Abra copper mine produces 64,500 tonnes, down 24.2% per cent year-on-year. BHP Billiton’s Spencer (Spence) copper mine produced 162,300 tonnes, up 20.5%, and Cerroco Rolado (Cerro Colorado) copper mine produced 53,900 tonnes, down 18.3%.
Kevlada Branca (Quebrada Blanca), a Teck resource company, produced 19,200 tonnes of copper ore, down 33.8%. Glencore’s Lomas Bayas (Lomas Bayas) copper mine produced 67,000 tonnes and grew by 1.4%.
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