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Pre-tax profit for Chile's Codelco down 65% this year through Sept

27th October 2023

By: Reuters

  

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SANTIAGO - Chile's Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, on Thursday posted a 65% drop in its pre-tax profit for the first nine months of the year, pulled down by lower production and higher operating costs.

Codelco's pre-tax profit over that period totaled $917-million.

The state-owned miner, whose credit rating was recently downgraded amid lower prices and copper output, added that copper production between January through September fell 9% to 966 000 t.

Core earnings over the nine month period totaled $3.24-billion, a 31% drop from the year-earlier period, while production costs spiked nearly 30% to reach $2.04 per pound.

The state copper producer announced earlier this month a leadership shakeup, just weeks after a new chief executive took office as the company takes a lead on negotiations with private lithium miners to increase state control over the industry.

Edited by Reuters

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