Kitco ranked the top 10 largest copper mining companies worldwide based on their reported attributable copper production in Q1 2023. Production at the Chilean mining giant Codelco, the world’s largest copper mining company, decreased 9% year-on-year to 352 thousand tonnes (incl. Codelco’s stake in El Abra and Anglo American Sur) in Q1 2023 compared to 387 ktonnes in Q1 2022. The company reported that this decline in production was driven by operational difficulties and lower ore grade at Chuquicamata, a decline in mineral processing at Andina due to concentrator plant maintenance shutdown and downtime. Furthermore, ... (full story)