Consejo Minero

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Consejo Minero (lit. Mining Council) is a guild grouping large mining companies active in Chile. According to Consejo Minero in 2025 its companies produce 94% of Chile's copper, 96% of its iron, 90% of its silver and 63% of its gold and lithium. [1] Its members are Anglo American, BHP, CMP, Minera Centinela, Codelco, Compañía Minera Doña Inés de Collahuasi, El Abra (owned by Freeport-McMoRan and Codelco [2] ), Minera Escondida, Freeport-McMoRan, Glencore, Gold Fields, KGHM, Kinross, Lundin Mining, Pampa Norte, Minera Los Pelambres, Rio Tinto, South32, Sociedad Química y Minera and Teck Resources. [1] Prior to the joining of Compañía de Acero del Pacífico (CAP) in 2017 the guild lacked any company engaged in the production of iron. [3]

The organization was established in 1997. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Socios". Consejo Minero (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-04-26.
  2. "Freeport's Chile-based El Abra mine, union seal wage agreement". Reuters. 10 April 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
  3. "Grupo minero CAP se incorpora al Consejo Minero y se conveirte en la primera productora de hierro en sumarse a la entidad gremial". Portal Minero (in Spanish). 2017-07-03. Retrieved 2025-04-30.
  4. Hernández C., Diego (2000). "Carta del Presidente". Informe de la Gran Minería Chilena[Report of the Large-Scale Mining in Chile] (in Spanish). Consejo Minero de Chile. p. 4.