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Chile mined 24% (IEA) of the world's copper in 2025 and refined 6.2% (IEA).

24%

of the world's copper mining in 2025, according to IEA · about 1 in 4

#1 in copper miningANNUAL 2025

  • Materials with a production share

    2

    with a mining or refining share on record

  • Sites on record

    161

    Mines and plants in the open sources. Coverage is partial.

  • Exports of the ten materials

    $53bn

    2024; most of it copper; 62 partner countries

  • Grid emissions intensity

    291gCO2e/kWh

    2025

OverviewSupply chainMoneySustainabilityRisks & policySourcesHistory & talk

Overview

What it produces

Share of world output, per material and stage. Each bar is one source's figure; where two sources report the same stage, both are shown and never blended. A full-width bar would be 100%.

  • Copper· Mine

    • 24%about 1 in 4#1 in copper miningIEA, 2025 · 5 485 kt Cu

      Rank 1 of the 6 countries with a figure in this IEA table.

    • 23%about 1 in 4#1 in copper miningUSGS, 2025 (estimated) · 5 300 kt

      Rank 1 of the 14 countries with a figure in this USGS table.

  • Lithium· Mine

    • 19%about 1 in 5#3 in lithium miningUSGS, 2025 (estimated) · 56 000 t

      Rank 3 of the 9 countries with a figure in this USGS table.

    • 17%about 1 in 5#3 in lithium miningIEA, 2025 · 52 kt Li

      Rank 3 of the 6 countries with a figure in this IEA table.

  • Lithium· Refine

    • 16%about 1 in 5#2 in lithium refiningIEA, 2025 · 52 kt Li

      Rank 2 of the 6 countries with a figure in this IEA table.

  • Copper· Refine

    • 6.2%about 1 in 20#3 in copper refiningIEA, 2025 · 1 741 kt Cu

      Rank 3 of the 6 countries with a figure in this IEA table.

    • 5.9%about 1 in 20#3 in copper refiningUSGS, 2025 (estimated) · 1 700 kt

      Rank 3 of the 17 countries with a figure in this USGS table.

Key facts

Country code
CHL
GDP
$357bn (2025)
Mineral rents, share of GDP
16% (2021)
Ores and metals, share of goods exports
59% (2025)
Mining area, all commodities
4 563 km² (2019; rank 8 of 144)

Money →Sustainability →Risks & policy →

Map

Basemap: Natural Earth (public domain)
  • Chile
  • Mine or brine operation
  • Processing site

Sites are those in the open sources. A site missing here is missing from the sources, not from the world.

Sites on record · 161

161 of 161 shown

One entry per site. Where two sources describe the same site, the atlas lists the record of the source it ranks higher.

Country in context

Copper: Mining (IEA), 2025. All rows come from the same table.

Country in context: Copper, Mining (IEA), 2025
Countrykt CuShare of worldSource
ChileThis country5 48523.6 %
World totalWorld total as the source gives it23 227–

Supply chain

Every figure the sources give for this country, its trade partners per material, and where its sites are.

Production, refining and reserves

The latest year of each series. Share is of the series total: the larger of the source world total and the sum of its rows. Rank counts only the countries that have a number in that series.

Production, refining and reserves: Chile
SeriesAmountShare of worldSource
Lithium: Mine production2025 (estimated) · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 3 of 956 000 t19.3 %
Lithium: Raw materials (IEA)2025 · IEA GCMO 2026 · rank 3 of 652 kt Li17.2 %
Lithium: Chemicals (IEA)2025 · IEA GCMO 2026 · rank 2 of 652 kt Li16.3 %
Lithium: Reserves2025 · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 1 of 109 200 000 t24.9 %
Copper: Mine production2025 (estimated) · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 1 of 145 300 kt23.0 %
Copper: Mining (IEA)2025 · IEA GCMO 2026 · rank 1 of 65 485 kt Cu23.6 %
Copper: Refinery production2025 (estimated) · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 3 of 171 700 kt5.9 %
Copper: Refining (IEA)2025 · IEA GCMO 2026 · rank 3 of 61 741 kt Cu6.2 %
Copper: Reserves2025 · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 1 of 14180 000 kt18.4 %

Mines and plants listed without coordinates · 22

The USGS Minerals Yearbook names these operations in Chile with company, place and annual capacity, but gives no coordinates, so they are not on the map. Capacity is not production. Each row is from the chapter year shown.

Material and productKindCompany, as listedPlace, as listedAnnual capacityYearSource
CopperCopper sulfatePlantCompañía Minera San GerónimoPlant at Faena Lambert, El Romero, Coquimbo Region13 000 metric tons per year2019
CopperCopper, Cu contentNot specifiedAnglo American Sur S.A. (Anglo American plc, 50.1%; Mitsubishi Corp., 20.4%; Corporación Nacional del Cobre (CODELCO), 20%; Mitsui & Co., Ltd., 9.5%)Los Bronces Mine and SX-EW1 plant, Metropolitana (Santiago) Region40 thousand metric tons per year2019
CopperCopper, Cu contentNot specifiedAntofagasta Plc, 50%, and Barrick Gold Corp., 50%Zaldívar Mine and SX-EW1 plant, Antofagasta Region100 thousand metric tons per year2019
CopperCopper, Cu contentNot specifiedAntofagasta Plc, 60%; JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corp., 25%; Mitsubishi Materials Corp., 15%Los Pelambres Mine, Coquimbo Region370 thousand metric tons per year2019
CopperCopper, Cu contentNot specifiedAntofagasta Plc, 70%, and Marubeni Corp., 30%Antucoya Mine and SX-EW1 plant, Antofagasta Region80 thousand metric tons per year2019
CopperCopper, Cu contentNot specifiedAntofagasta Plc, 70%, and Marubeni Corp., 30%Centinela Mine (El Tesoro) and SX-EW1 plant, Antofagasta Region90 thousand metric tons per year2019
CopperCopper, Cu contentNot specifiedCompañía Contractual Minera Candelaria (Lundin Mining Corp., 80%; Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd., 15%; Sumitomo Corp., 5%)Candelaria Mine, Antacama Region160 thousand metric tons per year2019
CopperCopper, Cu contentNot specifiedCompañía Minera Carmen de Andacollo [Teck Resources Ltd., 90%, and Empresa Nacional de Minería (ENAMI) (Government, 100%), 10%]Carmen de Andacollo Mine and SX-EW1 plant, Coquimbo Region2 thousand metric tons per year2019
CopperCopper, Cu contentNot specifiedCompañía Minera Cerro Colorado Ltda. (BHP Billiton Ltd., 100%)Cerro Colorado Mine and SX-EW1 plant, Tarapaca Region65 thousand metric tons per year2019
CopperCopper, Cu contentNot specifiedCompañía Minera Doña Inés de Collahuasi SCM (Anglo American plc, 44%; Glencore plc, 44% ; Japan Collahuasi Resources B.V., 12%)Collahuasi Mine, Tarapaca Region570 thousand metric tons per year2019
CopperCopper, Cu contentNot specifiedCompañía Minera Minera Lomas Bayas (Glencore plc, 100%)Lomas Bayas Mine and SX-EW1 plant, Antofagasta Region75 thousand metric tons per year2019
CopperCopper, Cu contentNot specifiedCompañía Minera Teck Quebrada Blanca S.A. [Teck Resources Ltd., 60%; Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. and Sumitomo Corp. of Japan, 30%; Empresa Nacional de Minería (Government, 100%), 10%]Quebrada Blanca Mine and SX-EW1 plant, Tarapaca Region25 thousand metric tons per year2019
CopperCopper, Cu contentNot specifiedComplejo Metalurgico Altonorte S.A. (Glencore plc, 100%)Altonorte smelter, La Negra, Antofagasta Region310 thousand metric tons per year2019
CopperCopper, Cu content:—Not specifiedCorporación Nacional del Cobre (CODELCO)El Teniente Mine and SX-EW1 plant, Machali,2 thousand metric tons per year2019
CopperCopper, Cu contentNot specifiedCorporación Nacional del Cobre (CODELCO) (Government, 100%)Chuquicamata Mine and SX-EW1 plant, Calama, Antofagasta Region60 thousand metric tons per year2019
CopperCopper, Cu contentNot specifiedCorporación Nacional del Cobre (CODELCO) (Government, 100%)Chuquicamata smelter, Calama, Antofagasta Region450 thousand metric tons per year2019
CopperCopper, Cu contentNot specifiedCorporación Nacional del Cobre (CODELCO) (Government, 100%)Gabriela Mistral Mine and SX-EW1 plant, Sierra Gorda, Antofagasta Region125 thousand metric tons per year2019
CopperCopper, Cu contentNot specifiedCorporación Nacional del Cobre (CODELCO) (Government, 100%)Radomiro Tomic Mine and SX-EW1 plant, Calama Antofagasta Region230 thousand metric tons per year2019
LithiumLithium > Lithium carbonatePlantRockwood Litio Ltda. (Albemarle Corp., 100%)La Negra I and II plants, Antofagasta Region44,000 (as printed)2019
LithiumLithium > Lithium chloridePlantRockwood Litio Ltda. (Albemarle Corp., 100%)La Negra I and II plants, Antofagasta Region6,000 (as printed)2019
LithiumLithium > Lithium carbonatePlantSQM Salar S.A. [Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. (SQM), 100%]Salar del Carmen plant, Antofagasta Region70,000 (as printed)2019
LithiumLithium > Lithium hydroxidePlantSQM Salar S.A. [Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. (SQM), 100%]Salar del Carmen plant, Antofagasta Region13 500 metric per year2019

Trade partners

8 recorded flows, 2024

Basemap: Natural Earth (public domain)
  • Recorded trade flow; a thicker line is a larger value
  • Chile

Lines join the middle of each country. They are not shipping routes.

Recorded trade flows of Chile: Copper
PartnerMaterialYearValue, US$Source
Export toChinaCopperMine2024$21bn
Export toUSACopperRefine2024$5.8bn
Export toJapanCopperMine2024$5.4bn
Export toChinaCopperRefine2024$4.5bn
Export toBrazilCopperRefine2024$2.1bn
Export toRep. of KoreaCopperMine2024$1.4bn
Export toIndiaCopperMine2024$1.4bn
Export toRep. of KoreaCopperRefine2024$1.1bn

Reconciled customs data (CEPII BACI), by value. The data holds only the largest flows of each material, so this is not the country’s full trade.

161 sites, deposits and projects on record are listed with the map in the Overview →

Money

What the trade data and the World Bank record in money terms. Every value is a reported figure with its own year.

All recorded trade flows of 2024 under the customs codes that isolate one of the ten materials, by value (CEPII BACI, reconciled estimates, current US dollars). Codes that mix several materials are left out, so trade in those materials is understated; gallium and germanium have no usable code at all. Each material lists its five largest partners. Why trade data blurs some materials

Exports of the ten materials

$53bnin 2024, with 62 partner countries

Imports of the ten materials

$85Min 2024, with 40 partner countries

The economy around mining

World Bank indicators. Each has its own latest year, shown next to the value; mineral rents are often several years old.

  • GDP (current US$)

    $357bn

    Year 2025

  • Mineral rents (% of GDP)

    16%

    Year 2021

  • Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports)

    59%

    Year 2025

Government revenue from extractives

No data yet. Chile has no EITI summary record with a government total. Countries report only if they implement the EITI Standard; a missing record does not mean there is no such revenue.

EITI open data

Investment pipeline

announced figures

Planned and under-construction projects in Chile with a publicly announced capital cost, public financial backing, or both. Each line is one statement by the named publisher on the given date; the atlas adds nothing to it.

No data yet. The atlas has read no announcement of this kind for a project in Chile. The list is short and hand-read; a missing project is missing from the list, not from the world.

A short, hand-read list, not a census: 19 projects in all. Announced amounts are not spending, a letter of interest or a conditional commitment is not a loan, and amounts stay in the currency of the announcement.

Public support instruments

Stockpiles, price floors, offtake and purchasing programmes and public funds of Chile's government, as dated policy events of the type "public support". Each is one statement by its publisher.

No data yet. The atlas has read no public support instrument of Chile's government. The list is short and hand-read.

Mining companies headquartered here · 3

Companies that Wikidata places in the mining industry with headquarters in Chile, for every commodity, not only the ten materials. Wikidata is edited by volunteers: entries may be missing or out of date, and each name links to its item. A listing names an exchange and a ticker; it is not a price.

CompanyHeadquartersStock listingLEISource
Antofagasta to Bolivia RailwayAntofagasta——
Codelconamed at 26 sites or listed plants, itself or through a subsidiarySantiago——
Compañía Minera del PacíficoLa Serena——

These figures are informational, not financial advice.

Sustainability

Four indicators, the same on every profile. Each is a figure with its unit, year and source, or a plain statement that there is none.

  • Carbon

    Emissions intensity of the country's electricity grid.

    291gCO2e/kWh

    2025Reported

    Higher than 33% of the other 208 countries with a grid figure.

    • It describes the national grid, not mining or refining. Sites may run on their own power.

  • Water

    Share of the country's mine sites on record that lie in high or extremely high baseline water stress.

    41%of mine sites on record

    2023Estimated

    No world percentile: the number of sites on record differs too much between countries to compare them.

    • 51 of 124 sites with a class (124 mine and brine sites on record).
    • Counted by site, not by tonnage: it is not a share of production.
    • "Arid and Low Water Use" is a class of its own in the source and is not counted as high.

  • Land

    Land visibly used by mining in the country, every commodity together.

    4 563km²

    2019Estimated

    Higher than 95% of the other 143 countries with a mapped mining area.

    • Rank 8 of 144 countries by area.
    • Mapped from satellite images for all mining in a country. It cannot be attributed to one material or one site.

  • Circularity

    Recycling's share of demand.

    Not available per country: recycling rates in the atlas are published per material, for the EU as a whole.

There is no overall score: the four figures measure different things and are not added up. How to read these figures

Risks & policy

Export controls in force

Compiled by USGS, effective January 2026. Not a live feed.

USGS Table 4 lists no export control by this country for the materials in the atlas.

Chokepoints at sea

The atlas has no record of which minerals pass through which sea passage, so no chokepoint figure is attached to this profile. Current ship counts for the main passages are on the Live page. Open the Live page

Gaps

What the atlas is missing for Chile

Computed from the data. Each line names a record that exists and one that does not. It marks missing data, not missing industry.

  • Listed as a lithium refiner (16% of world output; Chemicals (IEA), 2025), but no processing plant is on record.
  • Trade is partial by design: the atlas holds only each material's largest flows. 22 of them name this country.

Add dataAll gaps, across materials

Sources

Every source this profile uses, with its licence, the years its figures describe and how sure the figures are. Each chip on the profile opens the single record.

The mining-area figure comes from a share-alike source (CC-BY-SA-4.0). It is kept in its own file under that licence, apart from the rest of the atlas's data.

History & talk

Revision history and discussion are coming soon.

Every change to a figure will be listed here with its source, its credit and its review, and each profile will have a place to discuss it. Until then the data changes only when a source is updated, and every figure links to that source.

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What we don't know yet

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