The Ministry of Mining (Spanish; Castilian: Ministerio de Minería) is the cabinet-level administrative office in charge of matters related to mining in Chile.
The mining sector contributed 16.4% of Chile's gross domestic product in 2009, 14,157 billion pesos, mostly from copper mining.[1]
Since March 2022, the Minister of Mining (Spanish; Castilian: Ministro de Minería) is Marcela Hernando.
In August 2023, Boric replaced Hernando in a cabinet reshuffle with Aurora Williams.[2]