A guard gate blocks access to the San José mine site rescue operations in northern Chile on Tuesday, October 12, 2010. One of countless tributes to the trapped miners marks the side of the road ...

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Pedro Cortez, the 31st miner pulled to the surface, is wheeled away from the mine on a stretcher. All of the miners were scheduled to undergo a medical exam after exiting the mine.

When the mine collapsed Piñera who was in Colombia for the taking office of President Juan Manuel Santos flew back to Chile and promised “every possible human effort” to rescue the miners.

Rashid, Faaiza, Amy C. Edmondson, and Herman B. Leonard. "Leadership Lessons from the Chilean Mine Rescue." Harvard Business Review 91, nos. 7/8 (July–August 2013): 113–119.

Like other mining companies, BHP, which owns a 57.5% stake in the mine, is scrambling to cut costs amid a slide in copper prices in recent years Workers at the world's largest copper mine, BHP ...

Production ground to a halt at the Escondida mine when workers downed tools for 44 days in 2017, costing BHP $740 million and wiping 1.3 percent off Chile's annual economic output.

The project has been a focal point for environmental debates in Chile, the world's leading copper producer. A government review committee denied a key environmental permit for the Dominga mine in ...

SANTIAGO, Feb 25 (Reuters) - BHP will move forward with a $2 billion plan to optimize its concentrator at Escondida, the world's largest copper mine, as part of its investment plan in Chile ...