SANTIAGO, March 19 (Reuters) - U.S. miner Freeport-McMoRan is due to begin the process of obtaining an environmental permit for a $7.5 billion expansion of its El Abra copper mine in Chile, newspaper Diario Financiero reported late Wednesday.
(Reporting by Fabián Cambero; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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