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Workers end strike at world's biggest copper mine: lawyer

A camp set by striking workers of the world's biggest copper mine, Escondida, in Antofagasta, Chile, is seen on March 10, 2017

Workers at the world's largest copper mine, BHP Billiton's Escondida in Chile, ended a lengthy strike Thursday, invoking a law that allows them to keep their old contract for 18 months, their lawyer said.

The miners will return to work Saturday after invoking an article of Chilean labor law that allows them to push back contract negotiations by another year and a half, said union lawyer Marco Lopez

The end of the 43-day strike, which had caused turbulence on world copper markets, came on the day it broke the record for the longest mining strike in copper-rich Chile's history.