Chile rethinks mine safety after worker deaths and expanding sinkhole

FILE PHOTO: An artisanal miner shows ore at a small copper and gold processing plant of the "Inca de Oro" (Inca gold) miners association near Copiapo city, north of Santiago, Chile, December 14, 2015. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado/File Photo

(Reuters) - Chile is taking another look at health in safety in its mines after two workers died on a mining construction project in July and a giant sinkhole more recently opened up near a copper mine.

Chile President Gabriel Boric said on Wednesday he wants to ratify an International Labor Organization (ILO) convention on health and safety in mines. The rules were issued in 1995 and first adopted by Botswana, Finland, Spain and Sweden. Brazil adopted the rules, known as convention 176, in 2006 and Peru in 2008.