Copper output from Chile's Codelco climbs 17% in May
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FILE PHOTO: A view shows an area of Codelco El Teniente copper mine, the world's largest underground copper mine, near Rancagua, Chile, Chile July 30, 2024. REUTERS/Fabian Cambero/ File Photo
SANTIAGO (Reuters) -Copper production from Chilean state-run miner Codelco ticked up some 16.5% year-over-year in May, data from copper commission Cochilco showed on Thursday, climbing to 130,100 metric tons.
Codelco is the world's largest miner of the red metal.
Meanwhile production at BHP's Escondida mine, the world's largest copper mine, leaped some 24.4% to 132,000 tons.
At Collahuasi, another major copper mine jointly run by Glencore and Anglo American, output slid 16.9% to 38,400 tons.
(Reporting by Fabian Cambero, Editing by Natalia Siniawski)
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