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,

Chile's Santiago, and major copper mines in the country's north were hit by a massive power outage on Tuesday, impacting global metal markets.

A massive power outage across Chile plunged the country's capital Santiago into darkness on Tuesday and knocked out electricity to major copper mines in the country's north, buffeting global metal markets.

A massive power outage across Chile plunged the country's capital Santiago into darkness on Tuesday (February 25) and knocked out electricity to major copper mines in the country's north, buffeting global metal markets.