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ENAMI

Chilean state-owned mining company

Empresa Nacional de Minería (National Mining Enterprise) better known by its acronym ENAMI is a Chilean state-owned mining company based in Santiago. Its business involve purchasing ore, primarily from small and medium-scale mining, processing it is and selling the processed product, usually copper, in the international market. ENAMI has also its role in providing technical and financial assistance for mining in its target segment.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Apr 5, 1960Founded1

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Edificio Corporativo de la Empresa Nacional de Minería, Santiago 20230417 01
Photo: Carlos Figueroa Rojas, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons4

Empresa Nacional de Minería (National Mining Enterprise) better known by its acronym ENAMI is a Chilean state-owned mining company based in Santiago. Its business involve purchasing ore, primarily from small and medium-scale mining, processing it is and selling the processed product, usually copper, in the international market. ENAMI has also its role in providing technical and financial assistance for mining in its target segment. Its board president is the Chilean minister of mining, who since August 2023 is Aurora Williams. ENAMI was created in 1960 by the merger of Caja de Crédito y Fomento Minero (CACREMI) and Empresa Nacional de Fundiciones. The company is aimed to help small-scale miners by among other things buying ore in quantities that are otherwise too small to be traded in the international market. The company also helps stabilizing prices for the products of medium and small-scale miners. It has most of its offices and smelters and other industries in the northern half och Chile, from Rancagua to the Arica in the far north. South of Rancagua the only office of ENAMI lies in Concepción.2

Products and brands

Planta Delta near the city Ovalle is owned and operated by ENAMI. It processes the ore from the adjacent Panulcillo copper mines and is a point of delivery for other small-scale miners in the region.

The custom copper smelter Fundición Paipote next to Copiapó is owned ENAMI. It has been paralyzed since February 2024 for a major overhaul. At the time of paralyzation the smelter generated economic losses for ENAMI.

ENAMI owns Planta El Salado 20 km away from Esperanza mine in Chañaral Province.

From Wikipedia’s article on ENAMI (Chile), shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Timeline

  1. Apr 5, 1960Founded Founded1

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