Codelco
Sign in to saveThe National Copper Corporation of Chile (), abbreviated as Codelco, is a Chilean state-owned mining company and the largest copper mining company in the world. It was formed in 1976 from foreign-owned copper companies that were nationalised in 1971. As of 2025 its most productive mines are Radomiro Tomic and El Teniente.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile
- Company.logo
- Codelco logo.svg
- Company.type
- State-owned enterprise
- Company.foundation
- 1976
- Company.location
- Santiago, Chile
- Company.key_people
- Máximo Pachecopresident of the board
- Company.num_employees
- 17,880
- Company.revenue
- US$16.0 billion (2010)
- Company.net_income
- US$5.249 billion
- Company.industry
- Mining
- Company.products
- Copper
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Government
- Location
- Santiago, Chile
- Also known as
- Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile, National Copper Corporation of Chile
- Status
- Active
ISNI 0000 0001 0721 4253
Official website
Inicio | CODELCO - Corporación Nacional del Cobre, Chile
Codelco es una empresa dedicada a la exploración, desarrollo y explotación de recursos mineros de cobre y subproductos, su procesamiento y su comercialización.
codelco.com →Link to the official site · 15,638 chars · not written by Vinony
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Encyclopedic overview
29 sectionsContents
- History
- The company
- Corporate governance
- Divisions
- Codelco Norte
- Chuquicamata
- The modern mine
- The future of Chuquicamata
- Radomiro Tomic
- Northern expansion of Mina Sur
- Secondary waste dump leach
- Ministro Hales
- Pollution
- Salvador
- Andina
- El Teniente
- The present mine
- Sewell
- Other projects
- Ventanas
- Joint ventures
- El Abra
- Inversiones Mineras Becrux
- Nova Andino Litio
- Quebrada Blanca
- Codelco outside Chile
- Notes
- References
- External links
[](https://codelco.com/somos-codelco)
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Codelco” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.