| A raging seven-year drought affecting copper-rich Chile is making miners grow anxious as the dry spell is now affecting the supply of power necessary to sustain their operations, responsible for around a third of global copper output. Companies such as BHP Billiton and Anglo American have recently highlighted the impact of the country’s extreme conditions in their latest financial reports.
Output at BHP's Escondida, the world's largest copper mine, dropped 2% percent in the second half of 2014. Water scarcity at Anglos’ Los Bronces — the world's sixth-largest copper operation— may cost the company as much as 30,000 tonnes of lost production, equivalent to 4% of Anglo's overall copper output this year, Reuters reports...............................................Full Article: Source
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