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By: Reuters
Strikers at the Spence copper mine agreed to resume wage talks with owner BHP Billiton on Friday in an effort to end a 39-day work stoppage that threatened to spread to the miner's other operations in Chile.
A leading Chilean mine union earlier on Friday threatened to halt output at mines owned by BHP Billiton in solidarity with strikers at its Spence deposit, fanning fears... Full Article
Published: 20th November 2009, 21:23
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