Copper cable bandits worry Chilean government
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Copper bandits are worrying the Chilean government as they rustle telephone and electrical wiring to take advantage of a five-fold rise in prices for the red metal in the past three years.
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Just another reason to curse the hot weather: thieves are mining AC cooling coils to sell on the black market
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Emboldened by high copper prices, scrap metal thieves pounced on thousands of feet of downed power lines following snowstorms last month despite the risk of electrocution, utility officials said.
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A planned border fence has provoked alarm among land owners fearful of being cut off from their own property.
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A rash of thefts has Mexican priests and community leaders gathering donations to install security systems.
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A major security operation is under way in Chile ahead of an annual Apec summit in the South American nation.
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By Danna Harman | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor. First a Chilean court stripped immunity from leaders of the country&#39;s 17-year &quot;dirty war&quot; last month.
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Chile's Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, is hoping for a resolution soon to a strike by workers at its Angamos port, which ships copper from its largest division, Codelco Norte.
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Chile's government says 700 people were arrested and 20 police injured during protests over the Apec summit.
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POTOSI, Bolivia  - High silver prices are drawing a frenzy of miners to a colonial-era mine at Potosi in Bolivia, but the mine has become so dangerous that authorities fear the mine, part of a World Heritage Site, could collapse.
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Chile's supreme court initiates an international search for General Pinochet's secret bank accounts.
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Miners and tourists alike are contaminating Argentina's caves, say scientists, who warn that fragile underground ecosystems and archaeological sites are at risk.
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A government video shows the potential destruction caused by hackers seizing control of a crucial part of the U.S. electrical grid
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11,000V + hacksaw = bang Derbyshire Police are looking for a "badly scorched" wannabe copper cable thief who decided it was a lucrative idea to hacksaw through an 11,000V power line, Reuters reports.â¦
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SANTIAGO, Chile -- In the long struggle to seek justice for victims of human rights abuses committed during 17 years of military rule in Chile, former dictator Augusto Pinochet has repeatedly escaped efforts to prosecute him and bring him to trial. With Pinochet now under house arrest, the country's Supreme Court is said to be ready to announce Monday whether the ailing ex-general will finally be brought to court.
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US investigators are likely to examine the growing - some say perilous - use of 'retreat mining.'
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The lower house of the Chilean Congress on Wednesday announced plans to investigate alleged CIA involvement in Chile in recent decades.