Chile's power grid and major copper mines slowly came back online on Wednesday morning after a major outage hit the world's top producer of the metal, with power firms working to restore the system to full operation,

A sweeping power blackout left most of Chile in darkness for several hours. Tuesday’s blackout sent mobile services offline, paralyzed businesses and forced evacuations of buildings and subways in the South American nation.

Citizens in Chile are getting back to normal after a nationwide power outage affected millions of people and a "state of emergency" gets lifted as officials point fingers at energy providers.