Carmen de Andacollo is an open-pit copper mine in northern Chile next to the town of Andacollo and about 40 km southeast of the port city of Coquimbo. Teck Resources owns 90% of the mine while state-owned ENAMI owns the rest.[1] The mine opened in 1996.[1] In 2023 it produced 39,600 metric tons of copper concentrate.[1] The ore mined belongs to the hypogene zone of the orebody.[2]
The concentration of property to establish a large mine begun 1975 when Augusto Pinochet gave permission to ENAMI to purchase surface real estate from the inhabitants of Andacollo. Businessman Andrónico Luksic