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A woman listens to news on the radio during a blackout in Vina del Mar city, about 121 km (75 miles) northwest of Santiago September 24, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Eliseo Fernandez By Moises Avila and Simon Gardner SANTIAGO | Sat Sep 24, 2011 11:04pm EDT SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A massive power blackout paralyzed crucial copper mines in Chile on Saturday and darkened vast swaths of the country including the capital Santiago before energy was largely restored, officials said. The outage acutely exposed the fragility of the energy grid in the world's top copper producer, which was devastated by a powerful earthquake in 2010. Critics have blamed Chilean President Sebastian Pinera for under-investment in infrastructure and his popularity ratings have dropped since taking office last year. Prior to the power failure, he was already struggling with massive protests by university students demanding deep educational reforms. Scrambling engineers were able to fully restore power generation and get distribution up to 90 percent of normal, the government said after the blackout, which lasted a couple of hours in most places. "We've regained power in various regions of the country," said Chilean Energy Minister Rodrigo Alvarez. At an earlier briefing, Alvarez said the cause of the outage was unknown but that computers that help run the energy grid had also malfunctioned. The blackout primarily hit the center of the country, where nearly 10 million of Chile's 16 million people live. Initially, Angloamerican said its Los Bronces mine was halted and state-run Codelco said its Andina division and El Teniente mine were also paralyzed. But Codelco later said power had been restored at the Andina division and El Teniente. It said output was not hurt at Andina as generators were used. Meanwhile, Los Bronces said it was relying on generators and production was at a third of capacity as normal energy supplies had yet to come on line. Authorities said the Collahuasi and Chuquicamata mines in the far north of Chile were not affected and that the blackout did not extend that far. (Additional reporting by Antonio Delajara and Alexandra Ulmer; Writing by Terry Wade; Editing by Todd Eastham) World Related Quotes and News Company Price Related News Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (2) RodrigoArenas wrote: everything is quiet in Santiago, if the Chilean Government is saying that things are not going normal, it’s a lie, Downtown Santiago absolutely normal after the blackout ended… Sep 24, 2011 9:24pm EDT -- Report as abuse David1977 wrote: This is only another dark and evil strategy of the chilean government and powerful bussines men to justify Hidroaysen and divert the atention of chilean people away from the real problems that affect our country, corruption, the worst richness distribution in the world, the most expensive upper education in the world,lack of acces to the culture, bad working conditions, diminishing of civilian and working rights, polution, destruction of our environment, the constant stealing of the water,lack of democracy and many others, dont believe this is a failure of the electrical system, this is another lie of this corrupt government. 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