South America
Chile
Was hier aus dem Boden kommt, was noch darin steckt und wer die Anlagen betreibt.
Was es produziert
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| Material | Reihe | Produktion | Einheit | Anteil an der Weltproduktion |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lithium | Mine production | 56,000 | metric tons | 19.3% |
| Molybdenum | Mine production | 42,000 | metric tons | 16.2% |
| Rhenium | Mine production | 30,000 | kilograms | 37.0% |
| Iodine | Mine production | 23,000 | metric tons | 67.6% |
| Salt | Mine production | 9,000 | thousand metric tons | 3.3% |
| Copper | Mine production | 5,300 | thousand metric tons | 23.0% |
| Sulfur | Production, all forms | 1,400 | thousand metric tons | 1.7% |
| Silver | Mine production | 1,400 | metric tons | 5.4% |
| Potash | Mine production | 600.0 | thousand metric tons | 1.2% |
| Pumice & Pumicite | Mine production | 530.0 | thousand metric tons | 2.6% |
| Zeolites (Natural) | Mine production | 240.0 | metric tons | 0.0% |
Was es als Reserve hält
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 · Reserven gemäß letzter Veröffentlichung
| Material | Reihe | Reserven | Einheit | Anteil an der Weltproduktion |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lithium | Reserves | 9,200,000 | metric tons | 24.9% |
| Rhenium | Reserves | 1,300,000 | kilograms | — |
| Iodine | Reserves | 750,000 | metric tons | 11.9% |
| Copper | Reserves | 180,000 | thousand metric tons | 18.4% |
| Silver | Reserves | 33,000 | metric tons | 5.4% |
| Molybdenum | Reserves (thousand metric tons) | 2,600 | thousand metric tons | 15.3% |
| Potash | Reserves, Recoverable ore | Not applicable | thousand metric tons | — |
Bergwerke im Atlas
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Chuquicamata
Historically the largest open-pit copper mine in the world by excavated volume.
Collahuasi
Among the largest copper mines by output.
El Teniente
The largest underground copper mine in the world by excavated extent.
Escondida
Consistently the largest copper mine in the world by output.
Salar de Atacama
The highest-grade and most productive lithium brine operation in the world.
Routen, die hier durchführen Chile
Alle Routen →Material, das hier abgebaut, hier raffiniert oder auf dem Weg in ein anderes Land über die Grenze transportiert wird.
Chilean brine to a battery in a car beginnt hier The ore is water. The first year and a half of processing is done by the sun, for free. Chilean sulfide concentrate to Chinese cathode to a wire beginnt hier Chile mines the most copper in the world. China refines the most. Those are not the same sentence.Eine führende US-Importquelle für
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 · Wichtigste US-Importquellen, 2021–2024