The Copper Workers Federation said the strike will cost Codelco—which produces around eight percent of the world's copper amounting to 10-15 percent of Chile's GDP—$20 million a day
Picture released by Aton Chile showing miners blocking access to the Ventanas smelter during the start of an "undefined" national strike of workers of the state mining company Codelco—the world's largest copper producer—in Las Ventanas, in the bay of Quintero and Puchuncavi, about 140 km west of Santiago, on June 22, 2022. Image: Raul ZAMORA / ATON CHILE / AFP) / Chile OUT