Chile · Mining
Key Facts
The warning. Codelco chairman Bernardo Fontaine told a mining conference in Santiago on Thursday the company faces “four difficult years” in production.
The plan. The five-year investment programme is US$34 billion, and Fontaine says there is no possibility of financing it given the debt.
The debt. Gross debt rose from US$17.6 billion in 2021 to US$26.3 billion in 2025. Net debt to EBITDA is 3.8 times, against roughly 0.7 for global peers.






