Chilean copper miner Antofagasta said on Wednesday it signed an agreement with a local community that has long opposed the tailings dam at its Los Pelambres flagship mine, ending protests and a legal battle that sought to have the dam demolished.
Residents of the small town of Caimanes in central Chile had blamed the dam for drying up the local river valley, taking Antofagasta to court and blockading roads in a case that threatened work at one of the world’s biggest mines.
