Workers at the world’s largest copper-mining operation are expected to strike on Thursday, driving up copper prices on fears of a shortage of the metal and expectations it could trigger stoppages at other mines.
A strike at the BHP Billiton Ltd.-controlled Escondida mine in Chile would follow
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