South America
Chile
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O que produz
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| Material | Série | Produção | Unidade | Partilha do mundo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% |
O que detém em reserva
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 · reservas conforme publicadas mais recentemente
| Material | Série | Reservas | Unidade | Partilha do mundo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
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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.
Jornadas que passam por aqui Chile
Todas as jornadas →Material que é extraído aqui, refinado aqui ou que simplesmente atravessa a fronteira a caminho de outro destino.
Chilean brine to a battery in a car começa aqui 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 começa aqui Chile mines the most copper in the world. China refines the most. Those are not the same sentence.Uma das principais fontes de importação dos EUA para
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 · principais fontes de importação dos EUA, 2021–2024