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Antofagasta Plc

One of the world's largest copper miners, Antofagasta plc runs four major mines in Chile's Atacama Desert — Los Pelambres, Centinela, Antucoya, and Zaldívar — turning out copper concentrates and cathodes, with gold and molybdenum as by-products. The company got its start in 1888 in London as a railway firm built to haul minerals between the Chilean port of Antofagasta and La Paz, Bolivia, and was reshaped into a mining giant after the Luksic family took control in the late 1970s. Its name likely draws on indigenous words for "copper," fitting for a firm that still runs the Antofagasta–Bolivia railway today.