Radomiro Tomić (mine)
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The Radomiro Tomić mine is located at 1,670 km north of Santiago, Chile, at 3,000 meters above sea level in the Andes Range. Radomiro Tomić mine is near to Chuquicamata mine and Calama city in the region of Antofagasta. It is an open pit mine that extracts oxide minerals.
Although this deposit was discovered in the 1950s, its operations started only in 1995, after Codelco updated the feasibility studies for its exploitation and acquired the technology necessary to exploit it profitably.
Today, Chilean Copper Corporation (Codelco) controls the mine. Until 1999, Radomiro Tomić was referred to as "Codelco Chile Division Radomiro Tomić", since then, (Codelco) has renamed it "Codelco Norte".
