Ministry of Mining (Chile)

Ministry of Mining
Ministerio de Minería
Agency overview
Formed1953
Preceding agency
  • • Ministry of Mines (March 1953–Jule 1953)
JurisdictionGovernment of Chile
HeadquartersAmunátegui 232
Santiago
Ministers responsible
  • Daniel Mas, Minister of Mining
  • Suina Chahuán Kim, Undersecretary of Mining
Websitehttps://www.minmineria.cl

The Ministry of Mining (Spanish: Ministerio de Minería) is the cabinet-level administrative office in charge of matters related to mining in Chile. The minister of mining in Chile is also the board president of the National Mining Enterprise (ENAMI).[1][2]

The mining sector contributed 16.4% of Chile's gross domestic product in 2009, 14,157 billion pesos, mostly from copper mining.[3]

In March 2026, Daniel Mas assumed the position of Minister of Mining.[4]

List of Ministers of Mining

The following are all Ministers of Mining (1953–Present)[5]

Picture Name Entered office Exited office Notes Appointed by
Eduardo Paredes Martínez 1953 1953 Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
Rafael Tarud Siwady 1953 1953
Clodomiro Almeyda Medina 25 June, 1953 14 October, 1953
Francisco Cuevas Mackenna 1953 1954
Alejandro Hales 1954 1954
Roberto Aldunate León 1954 1954
Armando Uribe 1954 1955
Diego Lira Vergara 1955 1955
Osvaldo Sainte-Marie Soruco 1955 1957
Emilio González G. 1957 1958
Roberto Vergara Herrera 1958 1960 Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez
Enrique Serrano de Viale Rigo 1960 1961
Julio Chaná 1961 1962
Joaquín Prieto Concha 1962 1963
Luis Palacios Rossini 1963 1964
Eduardo Simián Gallet 1964 1966 Eduardo Frei Montalva
Alejandro Hales 1966 1970
Orlando Cantuarias Zepeda 1970 1972 Salvador Allende
Mauricio Jungk Stahl 1972 1972
Pedro Palacios Cameron 1972 1972
Jorge Arrate June 17, 1972 July 10, 1972 Interim
Alfonso David Lebón 1972 1972
Claudio Sepúlveda Donoso 1972 1973
Sergio Bitar Chacra 1973 1973
Pedro Ramírez Correa 1973 1973
Rolando González Acevedo 1973 1973 Augusto Pinochet
Arturo Yovane 1973 1974
Agustín Toro Dávila 1974 1975
Luis Valenzuela Blanquier 1975 1978
Carlos Quiñones 1978 1980
José Piñera Echenique 1980 1981
Hernán Felipe Errázuriz 1981 1982
Samuel Lira Ovalle 1982 1988
Pablo Barahona 1988 1989
Jorge López Bain 1989 1990
Juan Hamilton Depassier 1990 1992 Patricio Aylwin
Alejandro Hales 1992 1994
Benjamin Teplizky Lijavetzky 1994 1997 Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
Sergio Jiménez Moraga 1997 2000
José de Gregorio Rebeco 2000 2001
Jorge Rodríguez Grossi 2001 2002 Ricardo Lagos
Alfonso Dulanto Rencoret 2002 2006
Karen Poniachik 2006 2008 Michelle Bachelet
Santiago González Larraín 2008 2010
Laurence Golborne 2010 2011 Sebastián Piñera
Hernán de Solminihac 2011 2014
Aurora Williams 2014 2018 Michelle Bachelet
Baldo Prokurica Prokurica 2018 2020 Sebastián Piñera
Juan Carlos Jobet 2020 2022
Marcela Hernando Pérez 2022 2023 Gabriel Boric
Aurora Williams 2023 2026
Daniel Mas 2026 Incumbent José Antonio Kast

See also

References

  1. ^ "Organigrama". enami.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-03-20.
  2. ^ Ningthoujam, Natalia (2023-08-17). "Chile's President Reorganizes Cabinet For 3rd Time Amid Low Approval Rating". Latin Times. Retrieved 2023-08-23.
  3. ^ Producto interno bruto por clase de actividad económica, a precios corrientes, Banco Central de Chile, archived from the original on 2009-07-05, retrieved 2010-10-27.
  4. ^ Silva, Benjamín (2026-03-11). "Daniel Mas asume como ministro de Economía, junto con los subsecretarios Karlfranz Koehler, María Paz Lagos y Osvaldo Urrutia". Ministerio de Economía, Fomento y Turismo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2026-03-20.
  5. ^ "Ministerio de Minería". www.minmineria.cl. Retrieved 2025-11-19.