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Blasting is the next largest use–about 19 percent —in the form of explosive energy. Electricity for shovel loaders and for drilling account for 9 per-cent and 3 percent, respectively. Finally, ancil-lary operations use around 3 percent of the total energy used in open-pit mining; these include auxiliary mobile equipment that consumes diesel Jun 11, 2020 Transport industries use roughly one-eighth of the total, industrial machinery and equipment use approximately one-tenth, and a wide range of consumer and other products make up the remainder. Changes in the international price of copper drive industry performance, with higher selling prices prompting producers to increase output. The market for copper mining is anticipated to increase at a considerable rate owing to increasing investments in construction projects which is a major consumer of copper industry. Escalating demand of copper from industrial economies such as China and India is the major factor driving investment in the copper mining market. Copper mining and processing is one of the traditional economic sectors of the Chilean economy. Despite the favourable international copper prices and the increase in domestic production over 2009-2014, negative factors such as high costs and reduced productivity limited the real CAGR
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