Chile's copper miners face the biggest set of labor negotiations in years, but with prices expected to maintain current highs, how high is the risk to output disruptions? Fastmarkets investigates.
More than 40 labor negotiations are due to take place this year at mines in Chile, the world's leading copper producer, against a backdrop of almost decade-high metal prices and elections set to be hotly contested in a country where the Covid-19 pandemic remains critical.The LME copper cash price reached $9,648.50 per tonne on February 26 - its highest since July 2011...