Fabian Cambero
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Chinchillas are displayed in a pet store in Montevideo, Uruguay, December 4, 2017. REUTERS/Andres Stapff
SANTIAGO, July 6 (Reuters) - A Chilean environmental regulator s probe into whether a group of endangered short-tailed chinchillas was harmed by attempts to move them so that a gold mine could be built will likely wrap up in the coming months, the environmental regulator s head told Reuters.
South Africa s Gold Fields Ltd (GFIJ.J), which is building the $860 million Salares Norte mine, has been working with Chilean authorities since 2020 to relocate the animals.
The Superintendency of the Environment (SMA) in November 2020 ordered a halt to the relocation efforts after one of the 25 giant rodents in the colony suffered a broken leg and two others died.
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MEXICO CITY, May 18 (Reuters) - Mexico’s economy likely grew by more than a fifth in April compared to the same month last year, when the coronavirus pandemic hammered business activity, a preliminary estimate published by national statistics agency INEGI showed on Tuesday.
Latin America’s second-biggest economy probably expanded by 20.6% from April 2020, INEGI said. Last April, the economy shrank by 19.7% in seasonally-adjusted terms compared to the same month in 2019, separate figures from the agency showed.
The April estimate projected that secondary activities, which include manufacturing, grew by 34.5% from the same month a year earlier. Meanwhile tertiary activities, which include services, likely expanded by 16.4% over the period, INEGI said.
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Chile's state-owned Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, said on Thursday it would once again ratchet up precautionary measures against the coronavirus at its mines amid a recent uptick in infections in the South American nation.