Codelco Finds Human Remains in Blow to Chile Mine Rescue Efforts

(Bloomberg) -Codelco found human remains during efforts to reach five underground workers in the middle Chilean copper mine and took a blow to the state-controlled company’s rescue efforts.

Journalists, in a collapsed tunnel in the al -Teniente mine, only hours later, a CODELCO official, the officials and their families who have not yet been informed about the discovery of the residues of workers who have fallen into the trap, said.

“This discovery fills us with sadness, but at the same time showing that we are in the right place, showing that the strategy follows,” Andrés music, which presides the operations of the mine in the south of Santiago.

“We will continue to work with all our strength and hope, but now more carefully, which may mean that progress will be slower,” he said.

The world’s largest copper supplier, after a collapse attributed to seismic activity on Thursday, stopped production in the field after imprisoning workers in a new section called Andesita in a new part of the mine. One person was killed and nine people were injured in the incident, the last mishaps of Codelco’s efforts to get rid of an output fall for years.

In 2010, a team of 100 people, including those who helped to save 33 workers stuck in another Chilean mine, is working on the effort to rescue El Teneiente.

Days after the US government’s decision to save the copper from heavy tariffs, Codelco embraces the deadly event and faces renewed suspicions about its ability to meet its production target.

El Teniente is very important to return to Codelco’s pandemic production levels of approximately 1.7 million tons (1.5 million metric tons) per year of about 1.4 million tons. Codelco delayed reporting three -month results, including annual production guidance while taking care of the accident on Friday.

When the substance production is able to continue, the result of an investigation into collapse, how much the infrastructure is strengthened and whether they need to adjust a mining method.

The mines in Chile are designed to withstand a much more powerful seismic activity than the 4.2 -magnitude incident that caused collapse.

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