Charts of the day are...

...Chile's gold production and estimated revenues from gold, monthly since 2009.

This chart shows how production in troy ounces has developed...

...and although there's a little progress, things have been fair flat. Meanwhile, this chart shows the monthly value of the produced gold, estimated by using the average monthly London PM Fix price (data from Kitco):

This time, there's a big difference and these days Chile is nailing down U$200m per month from gold. not bad for a country that's only ever linked to copper production, but still only about 1/3rd the gold produced by Peru. Numbers from Cochilco