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“In 2024, the production of Codelco is going to increase for the first time in several years,” Finance Minister Mario Marcel said in a Thursday interview from his Santiago office, hours before the company is due to deliver its annual results and guidance.
Codelco is navigating one of its most challenging periods in its almost 50-year history after a series of setbacks at projects and mines. The company has been juggling four large investments at its aging operations after decades of underinvestment. New Chief Executive Officer Ruben Alvarado has shaken up management in a bid to bring late and over-budget projects onstream.
Under the current arrangement with the government, Codelco can reinvest 30% of its annual profits, with remaining funding having to come from bond issuance. Unlike private sector miners in Chile, it also hands over 10% of sales to the state. There are no plans to add new funding mechanisms, given the 30% profit retention has only been in force for two years and Codelco’s prospects are improving, Marcel said. Chile wants to double its lithium output to avert risk of substitution in batteries
More threatening than oversupply in the coming years is the risk of a renewed shortage, which would send prices soaring.Chile’s copper output up 10% in February
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