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NO QUAKE DAMAGE AT CHUQUICAMATA - MINE SPOKESMAN
The earthquake which hit northern Chile
today, registering 7.0 on the open-ended Richter scale, caused
no damage to the copper mine at Chuquicamata, a mine spokesman
said.
Chuquicamata public relations director Guillermo Barcelo
told Reuters by telephone from the mine that the quake had
caused no problems and operations continued as usual.
A spokesman for the state Chilean Copper Commission in
Santiago confirmed there had been no damage at Chuquicamata.
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