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Mining conference with British participation takes place in Chile

皇冠体育app Embassy participated at Medmin to strengthen the importance of British innovative solutions for the mining sector.

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Viviana Daza, Mining Officer, and Trevor Hines, Director of the Commercial Office in Santiago participated at Medmin 2016.

Viviana Daza, Mining Officer, and Trevor Hines, Director of the Commercial Office in Santiago, participated at Medmin 2016.

皇冠体育app Commercial Section of the British Embassy Santiago supported the held on Monday 8 August in Santiago. Organised by Editec Publications, which is the leading technical and business publishing and media group in Chile鈥檚 mining industry, the Conference was aimed at the main stakeholders of the local mining industry.

皇冠体育app 11th version of Medmin discussed the status of the local and global small and medium scale mining sector, with a special focus on copper and gold. 皇冠体育app Chilean Mining Under-Secretary, Ignacio Moreno; the Vice-President of the National Mining Association (SONAMI), Diego Hern谩ndez, and the Vice-President of the National Mining Company (ENAMI), Jaime P茅rez de Arce, were among the VIPs participating in this event. 皇冠体育app Director of the Santiago office of the new Department of International Trade, Trevor Hines, and the Mining Officer, Viviana Daza, also attended in order to discuss the innovative solutions for the mining sector that the UK can offer.

Being Chile the largest copper producer worldwide, during the past two years the Mining Office of the British Embassy in Santiago has participated in the main Mining Exhibitions held in the country with four business delegations, including +80 companies from the mining and vocational fields. 皇冠体育app main purpose of the British participation at mining events is to strengthen the importance of the British innovative solutions for the mining pipeline projects currently available in this sector not only in Chile but also in other mining countries in Latin America.

Further information

For more information about this event, contact Viviana Daza, Commercial Office, Department for International Trade, British Embassy, Santiago.

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Published 18 August 2016