Chile's mining minister announced on Friday the permanent closure of mining stopes directly related to a giant sinkhole that appeared in the northern part of the country in July.
Mining minister Marcela Hernando made the announcement after meeting with union members, mine workers and technical experts studying the sinkhole.
"The sector of the Gaby stopes, that are directly related to the subsidence, are closed definitively and will never be exploited again," Hernando said, referring to a sector of stopes in the Alcaparrosa copper mine in northern Chile.The minister added that the government is working on recovering water from an aquifer that was damaged by the sinkhole.
"We're interested in recovering 1.3 million cubic meters of water that are currently stagnant in the depth," Hernando said. "Our intention is to return them to the aquifer, for which we're studying multiple alternatives." Chile's SMA environmental regulator announced the charges against the Canadian-owned Lundin Mining Corp's
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