UPDATE 1-Chile copper output falls in December, up 3 pct in 2012
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 08:07 AM EST
SANTIAGO, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Chile produced 513,344 tonnes of copper in December, a 1.8 percent slip from a year earlier, but boosted its red metal output by 3 percent to 5.455 million tonnes during all of 2012, the government said on Wednesday.