Copper output from Chile's Codelco down nearly 5% this year, but recovery expected

Chile's State-owned miner Codelco reported 918 000 metric tons of its own copper output from January through September, down 4.9% from the first nine months of last year, a filing to the country's financial regulator showed on Wednesday.

The miner's copper production during the third quarter was 338 000 t, up 2% from a year earlier.