Chilean mining company Codelco has requested that Chile's mining regulator, Sernageomin, allow the reopening of a portion of its El Teniente mine, reported Reuters, citing two sources familiar with the matter.

SANTIAGO (Reuters) -Copper miner Codelco has asked Chile's mining regulator for permission to reopen a part of its flagship El Teniente mine after a collapse last week that killed six people, said two sources with knowledge of the matter.

The bodies of all five miners trapped in a collapsed shaft in the world's biggest underground copper mine for three days have been found and identified, an official said Sunday. Aquiles Cubillos, the lead prosecutor in Chile's O'Higgins region,