Industries in Chile
Chile is today most closely associated with the mining industry, an industry which was brought to international prominence because of the rescue of 33 trapped miners in 2010. Mining still plays a vital role though in the economy of Chile, and about an eighth of the working population are employed in the industry. Chile’ s mining industry primarily revolves around the mining of copper, and CODELCO, is the biggest copper producing company in the world, and consequently one of the major employers of Chile. The major industries of the Chilean economy in the late 1980s and early 1990s were agriculture and food products, textiles and clothing, nonelectrical machinery, transportation equipment, and industrial chemicals.