Who is who
Chilean mining companies
The 71 companies behind the operations: who answers for each site before the environmental regulator, and who owns whom. Every fact opens its document.
Those that hold operations
Companies in whose name the environmental permits of an operation with published output stand before the Superintendencia del Medio Ambiente (SMA). Copper is that of their operations in the twelve months to August 2026.
A company's copper is the sum of its operations, each at 100%: it is not its attributable output. An operation whose regulated unit is not linked yet does not appear under its company.
Those that own
Companies with a stake in others, as the document cited on each page states. Their largest stakes are shown.
- BHP Group LimitedParent company · Australia
- Compañía Minera Cerro Colorado Limitada100%
- Minera Spence S.A.100%
- Minera Escondida57.5%
- Vicuña Chile SpA50%
- JECO 2 LtdParent company · Japan
- Minera Escondida2.5%
- JECO CorporationParent company · Japan
- Minera Escondida10%
- Rio Tinto plcParent company · United Kingdom
- Nuevo Cobre S.A.57.7%
- Minera Escondida30%
- Estado de ChileState · Chile
- Codelco100%
- ENAMI100%
- Glencore plcParent company · Jersey
- Compañía Minera Lomas Bayas100%
- Complejo Metalúrgico Altonorte S.A.100%
- Compañía Minera Doña Inés de Collahuasi44%
- Antofagasta plcParent company · United Kingdom
- Antofagasta Minerals100%
- Minera Antucoya Limitada70%
- Minera Centinela70%
- Sociedad Contractual Minera El Encierro66.2%
and 2 more
- Anglo American plcParent company · United Kingdom
- Compañía Minera Doña Inés de Collahuasi44%
- Japan Collahuasi Resources B.V. (JCR)Parent company · Netherlands
- Compañía Minera Doña Inés de Collahuasi12%
- Sumitomo CorporationParent company · Japan
- Teck Quebrada Blanca5%
- Minera Ojos del Salado4%
- Minera Candelaria4%
- Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.Mining company · Japan
- Teck Quebrada Blanca25%
- Minera Ojos del Salado16%
- Minera Candelaria16%
- Teck Resources LimitedMining company · Canada
- Teck Carmen de Andacollo90%
- Teck Quebrada Blanca60%
- Nuevaunion SpA50%
- KGHM Polska Miedź S.A.Mining company · Poland
- Sierra Gorda SCM55%
- South32 LimitedMining company · Australia
- Sierra Gorda SCM45%
- Lundin Mining CorporationMining company · Canada
- Minera Ojos del Salado80%
- Minera Candelaria80%
- Capstone Copper Corp.Mining company · Canada
- Minera Santo Domingo SCM100%
- Mantoverde S.A.70%
- Mitsubishi Materials CorporationMining company · Japan
- Mantoverde S.A.30%
- Freeport-McMoRan Inc.Mining company · United States
- SCM El Abra51%
- Marubeni CorporationParent company · Japan
- Minera Antucoya Limitada30%
- Minera Centinela30%
- Barrick Mining CorporationMining company · Canada
- Compañía Minera Nevada SpA100%
- Compañía Minera Zaldívar SpA50%
- Sociedad Norte Abierto SpA50%
- ENAMIState-owned company · Chile
- Teck Carmen de Andacollo10%
- Albemarle CorporationParent company · United States
- Albemarle Limitada100%
- Global Mining SpAParent company · Chile
- SQM3.1%
- Gold Fields LimitedMining company · South Africa
- Minera Gold Fields Salares Norte SpA100%
- Newmont CorporationMining company · United States
- Nuevaunion SpA50%
- Sociedad Norte Abierto SpA50%
- Nuevaunion SpAMining company · Chile
- El Morro SpA100%
- Potasios de Chile S.A.Parent company · Chile
- SQM6.4%
- Sociedad de Inversiones Oro Blanco S.A.Parent company · Chile
- SQM14.7%
- Sociedad Punta del Cobre S.A.Mining company · Chile
- Minera Puntilla S.A.60%
- SQMMining company · Chile
- NovaAndino Litio (ex SQM Salar)50%
- Tianqi Lithium CorporationMining company · China
- SQM21.9%
Other companies
Companies with known owners that do not hold an operation with published output, and lithium producers.
- Albemarle LimitadaMining company · Chile
- Antofagasta MineralsMining company · Chile
- Compañía Minera Nevada SpAMining company · Chile
- Complejo Metalúrgico Altonorte S.A.Mining company · Chile
- El Morro SpAMining company · Chile
- Minera Gold Fields Salares Norte SpAMining company · Chile
- Minera Puntilla S.A.Mining company · Chile
- Minera Santo Domingo SCMMining company · Chile
- NovaAndino Litio (ex SQM Salar)Mining company · Chile
- Nuevo Cobre S.A.Mining company · Chile
- Sociedad Contractual Minera El EncierroMining company · Chile
- Sociedad Norte Abierto SpAMining company · Chile
- Vicuña Chile SpAMining company · Chile