…  1,760 hectares and are on average 50km distant from the Chilean coast with access to natural deep water drafts. The total purchase …  the first quarter of 2009, with an estimated exploratory budget of approximately USD 17 million. Based on MMX’s knowledge of the …

…  budget surplus climbed in 2006 from a year earlier, bolstered by revenue from …  the world’s biggest copper producer. The government budget surplus widened to 6 trillion pesos ($11 billion), or 7.9 percent of …  October forecast for a surplus of 7.6 percent of GDP, said Budget Director Alberto Arenas in a statement released in Santiago. Chile’s …