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{{Infobox Company
| company_name=CODELCO
| company_logo=Codelco logo.svg
| company_type=[[Government-owned corporation|Government-owned]]
| foundation= (1955)
| location= [[Santiago]], [[Chile]]
| key_people=
| num_employees= 17,880 
| revenue = {{profit}} [[US$]] 16.0 billion (2010)
| industry= [[Mining]]
| products=[[Copper]]
| homepage= {{url|http://www.codelco.com/}}
}}
'''Codelco-Chile''' ({{lang-es|Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile - CODELCO}}) is a state mining company in [[Chile]] that uses and exploits [[copper]].
== History ==
It was founded in 1955 like the ''Copper Office''. In 1966, under President [[Eduardo Frei Montalva]], the [[Copper Office]] changes the name to ''Copper Corporation of Chile (Codelco)''. It was nationalized on July 11, 1971 under [[Salvador Allende]]. In 1976 was created the ''Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile'' under the [[Augusto Pinochet]] administration.
== Features ==
Considering the size of installations and volume of production, it is considered one of the largest mining companies in the world.

== Codelco Media ==
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File:Mina de Chuquicamata, Calama, Chile, 2016-02-01, DD 110-112 PAN.JPG|Panoramic view of Chuquicamata, a state-owned copper mine located at 2,850 metres (9,350 ft) above sea level just outside Calama, north of Chile. It is by excavated volume the la
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== Related pages ==
* [[Chilean Nationalization of Copper]]
== Other websites ==
{{Commons|Codelco}}
* [http://www.codelco.com Official Site of ''Codelco-Chile''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040909062654/http://www.codelco.com/ |date=2004-09-09 }}


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[[Category:Mining companies]]
[[Category:Companies of Chile]]
[[Category:Organisations based in Santiago, Chile]]