Minera Los Pelambres
Production. 343,800t copper and 10,500t molybdenum (2017) Expand. The Los Pelambres deposit, located 200km north of Santiago and 45km east of Salamanca in Choapa Province, was discovered in the 1920s by one of Chilean copper's founding fathers, William Braden. Antofagasta Holdings started the project in the 1990s, and the mine has become one ...