Foreign media news on July 1: The Chilean Statistics Institute (INE) said on Friday that Chile's copper production in May was 413,083 tons, a decrease of 14% from the same period last year.
Chile is the world's largest copper producer.
In January this year, a report by the Chilean State-owned Copper Commission stated that the growth rate of copper production in Chile this decade will be lower than previously expected, and that copper production may reach a peak of 7.14 million tons in 2030, two years later than previously expected. Year.
In 2022, the committee had forecast that copper production would peak at 7.62 million tonnes in 2028.
During the pandemic, many key projects over the next 10 years have not made progress against engineering and environmental baselines, the report said.