SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Copper output in Chile, the world’s largest producer of the red metal, increased 14.3% year-on-year in December to 566,547 metric tons, the country’s INE statistics agency said on Friday.
Manufacturing production in the Andean nation was up 8.4% in the period from a year earlier, the agency added.
(Reporting by Fabian Cambero and Natalia Siniawski; Editing by Gabriel Araujo)
