Codelco
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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.
Chuquicamata mine in 2016
Molten slag is from Caletones carried outside and poured into a dump, 2005. Caletones serves El Teniente mine in the Andes of Central Chile.
Copper extraction
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Copper extraction is the multi-stage process of obtaining copper from its ores. The conversion of copper ores consists of a series of physical, chemical, and electrochemical processes. Methods have ev
Codelco
…Corporation of Chile (Spanish: Corporación Nacional del Cobre de 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…
The Chino open-pit copper mine in New Mexico
Chalcopyrite specimen from Huarón mine, Peru
Miners at the Tamarack mine in Copper Country, in 1905
World copper production, 1946