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
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Article
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
The 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.
In 2025, Codelco was the second largest copper producing company in the world, and produced 1.332 million tonnes of copper.