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BHP Billiton Reports Copper Mine Exploration Result in Chile To Drop
Supplies from Escondida, the world’s biggest copper mine, increased 18 percent in 2007.
BHP Chief Executive Officer Marius Kloppers said “For the next two years, we’ve got a 10 to 15 percent production decline, and then we’ll resume the trajectory it was on earlier.”
Declining mine quality, insufficient power supplies and labor unrest have curbed copper production [...]
