Market and product

Chile June copper output down 0.6 pct yr/yr

04:02 PM @ Wednesday - 28 July, 2010
July 28 (Reuters) - Chile, the world's No. 1 copper producer, said Wednesday its output of the metal CLCOPP=ECI fell 0.6 percent in June from the same month a year earlier.

In May, Chile's copper output dropped 5.4 percent from the same month in 2009, according to data released last month.

Chile's copper industry, the backbone of its economy, emerged virtually unscathed from a Feb. 27 earthquake that killed hundreds of people and battered the wood pulp, fishing, fruit and wine industries.

(Source: Reuters, Reporting by Fabian Cambero; Editing by John Picinich)