miners of Chile

SANTIAGO – Brokerage firm Banchile on Friday auctioned 1.5-million series-A shares in Chile lithium miner SQM at a sale price of 30 000 pesos ($50.36) per share, raising a total of $76-million. SQM, which operates primarily in Chile's Salar de Atacama, is one of the world's largest and most cost-efficient ...

The idea is to make that voluntary practice a legal obligation that helps mid-size miners and juniors to come back to Chile's mining sector. The ministry is also in the process of setting a Presidential Advisory Commission, which will come up with a new national mining policy for the 2018-2050 period, ...

The world's top copper miner posted a 2017 pre-tax profit of $2.88-billion, a six-fold increase over its earnings in 2016, even as production costs jumped 7.8% to $1.359/lb of copper. Advertisement. Codelco ... The company was nationalized in the 1970s and provided an important source of income to Chile.