South America
Chile
Lo que sale del suelo aquí, lo que aún permanece en él y quién opera los activos.
Lo que produce
Mapas →USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 · 2025 (estimado) · cada fila conserva la unidad que la fuente utiliza para ese producto básico · fuente ↗
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| Material | Serie | Producción | Unidad | Cuota mundial |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% |
Lo que tiene en reserva
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 · reservas según la publicación más reciente
| Material | Serie | Reservas | Unidad | Cuota mundial |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
Minas en el 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.
Recorridos que pasan por aquí Chile
Todos los recorridos →Material que se extrae aquí, se refina aquí o simplemente cruza la frontera de camino a otro lugar.
Chilean brine to a battery in a car comienza aquí 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 comienza aquí Chile mines the most copper in the world. China refines the most. Those are not the same sentence.Una fuente de importación principal de EE. UU. para
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 · principales fuentes de importación de EE. UU., 2021–2024