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Chile produces 5.79Mt copper in 2015, virtually flat

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Top copper producer Chile produced 5.79-million tonnes of the red metal in 2015, a slight 0.2% increase from a year earlier, even as some companies responded to a deep rout in metals prices with output cuts, government data showed on Friday. In December, Chile churned out 495 953 t of copper, a 5.5% decrease from the year before, dragged down by falling ore grades.
 
 
 
 
 

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