A wide-ranging set of environmental proposals could reshape mining rights in Chile, the world's no. 1 copper producer, if approved by the country's constitutional assembly on Saturday.
This is the second time the ambitious set of proposals looking to enshrine environmental rights in the new constitution is being voted on in the general assembly after being voted down in late April.
A group of small-scale miners wearing hard hats and waving Chilean flags protested outside the assembly building on Friday while Chile's National Mining Society issued a statement opposing the proposals. The full package of proposals needs a two-thirds majority to pass. If it is rejected again, the articles will not be included in the draft constitution.
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