Chile's power grid and major copper mines slowly came back online on Wednesday morning after a major outage hit the world's top producer of the red metal, with power firms working to restore the system to full operation,

A major power outage in Chile has disrupted copper production at some of the world's largest mines, prompting a state of emergency.

A large power outage struck vast swaths of Chile on Tuesday, interrupting mining operations in the world's biggest copper producer and leaving residents of Santiago without electricity. Areas from the mining-intensive north to the central and southern regions that are home to most of the population,

Some of the world's largest copper mines in Chile have resumed operations after experiencing a disruption due to a major power outage. The outage, resulting from a transmission line failure in northern Chile,