Ministry of Mining (Chile)

The Ministry of Mining (Spanish: Ministerio de Minería) is the cabinet-level administrative office in charge of matters related to mining in Chile.

The mining sector contributed 16.4% of Chile's gross domestic product in 2009, 14,157 billion pesos, mostly from copper mining.[1]

The current Minister of Mining is Laurence Golborne (since 2010).

References

  1. ^ Producto interno bruto por clase de actividad económica, a precios corrientes, Banco Central de Chile, http://si2.bcentral.cl/Basededatoseconomicos/951_417.asp?m=CN_B03_25&f=A&i=E, retrieved 2010-10-27 .

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