Chile's Escondida Copper Output Falls 14% in October (Table)
Santiago, Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Chile's Escondida copper
mine, the world's largest, produced 14 percent less fine copper
in October compared with a year earlier, Minera Escondida Ltd.
said.
Gold output rose 3.4 percent. Following is a table with a
breakdown of metric tons of fine copper and cathodes produced,
and gold production in ounces.
*T
Oct. 01 Oct. 00 YTD 01 YTD 00
Concentrates 50,210 62,150 N/A N/A
Cathodes* 13,024 11,850 N/A N/A
Fine Copper Total 63,234 74,000 674,839 787,640
Gold** 10,476 10,129 83,132 106,186
*T
* Almost 100 percent pure copper.
**All figures in ounces.
Escondida is owned by Australia's BHP Billiton Ltd., which
has a 57.5 percent stake in the mine. London-based Rio Tinto Plc
owns 30 percent, and a group of Japanese companies headed by
Mitsubishi Corp. owns 10 percent of the mine. The World Bank's
International Finance Corp. owns the remainder.
--Michael Smith in Santiago (562) 638-4732, or
mssmith@bloomberg.net, or the New York newsroom (212) 318-
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