#Chile’s small-scale miners battling to stay afloat amid #Copper rout

Although 93 percent of the #Chile’s output comes from larger mines, a sharper drop in #Copper prices could send more small and medium-sized mines over the edge. Small mines generally employ up to 80 workers but are often much smaller, while medium-sized ones have a maximum of 400.

Read more at: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-chile-copper-miners-idUSKCN0VW008

One comment

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s