Over the past 27 years, mining for copper by Minera Escondida, a company co-owned by Anglo-Australian mining giants BHP and Rio Tinto, has resulted in a dramatic reduction of water levels in the Punta Negra salt flat in northern Chile, according to public defenders and Indigenous groups. Extraction of water for the company’s mining operations […]
Mining group BHP (BHP.AX) will spend up to $93 million in environmental repairs and reparations after a Chilean court brokered an agreement in a lawsuit from the state over water use and related damage to a sensitive salt flat in the north of the country.
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SANTIAGO – Mining group BHP will spend up to $93 million in environmental repairs and reparations after a Chilean court brokered an agreement in a lawsuit
BHP, the majority owner and operator of Minera Escondida in Chile, will have to spend $93 million as part of an environmental plan drawn up to resolve a legal dispute last year, the country's First Environmental Court said on Wednesday June 2.