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The National Copper Corporation of Chile (Spanish: Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile), abbreviated as Codelco, is a Chilean state-owned copper mining company. It was formed in 1976 from foreign-owned copper companies that were nationalised in 1971.
Given this more favourable context, Phelps Dodge, a United States mining company and the Sumitomo Metal Mining Company, a Japanese firm, signed a US$1.5 billion contract in 1992 with the Chilean government to develop Candelaria, a copper and gold mine south of Copiapó. The mine's potential production of refined copper was equivalent to about ...
The nationalization of the Chilean copper industry, commonly described as the Chileanization of copper (Spanish: Chilenización del cobre) [1] was the process by which the Chilean government acquired control of the major foreign-owned section of the Chilean copper mining industry. It involved the three huge mines known as 'La Gran Mineria' and ...
Minera Escondida (which means 'hidden' in Spanish) is a mining company that operates two open pit copper mines in the Atacama Desert, 170 km southeast of Antofagasta in northern Chile. It is currently the highest producing copper mine in the world.
This is a list of copper production by company. 2022. 2021 [1] Rank Company Country Cu production (tonnes) 1: Codelco: ... Chile: 1,827,000 2:
Chile's state-owned copper mining giant Codelco on Wednesday shut down its Ventanas copper smelter after decades of polluting Quintero Bay with toxic gases and turning it, along with 15 other ...
Pages in category "Copper mining companies of Chile" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Lustros' Copper Sulfate Plant in Chile Commences Production SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- LUSTROS, INC. (OTCQB:LSTS) announced today its subsidiary, Sulfatos Chile SpA, began pilot production of ...