South America
Chile
Cosa viene estratto qui, cosa è ancora nel sottosuolo e chi gestisce le risorse.
Cosa produce
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| Materiale | Serie | Produzione | Unità | Quota mondiale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% |
Cosa tiene in riserva
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 · riserve secondo la pubblicazione più recente
| Materiale | Serie | Riserve | Unità | Quota mondiale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
Miniere nell'atlante
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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.
Percorsi che transitano per Chile
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Chilean brine to a battery in a car inizia qui 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 inizia qui Chile mines the most copper in the world. China refines the most. Those are not the same sentence.Una fonte primaria di importazione statunitense per
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 · principali fonti di importazione degli Stati Uniti, 2021–2024