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Clinton High Frequency Spark Tester
Auto calibration with Clinton STCAL system
Pinhole and bare wire di erentiation
Detachable display can be located 25’ away
Flexible front panel password security
Optional Ethernet/IP, PROFINET, PROFIBUS
Modbus TCP and Analog communications
Easy connection to most PLCs
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Output at Chile’s Escondida, the world’s
largest copper mine, has been damaged
by the longest mining strike in the country’s
history.
Production dropped 63 percent in the first
quarter of 2017, compared to the same
period last year.
The 44-day strike kept production to just
97,103 tonnes of copper in the first three
months of the year, down from 265,597
tonnes in 2016.
Escondida accounts for almost five
percent of global copper production. In
2016, output reached 1.1 million tonnes.
Before the strike, the company had
anticipated that the mine would produce
1.07 million tonnes in the first six months of
2017.
Copper output cut