What Chilean Copper Commission does

The Chilean Copper Commission (COCHILCO, legal name Comisión Chilena del Cobre) is a Chilean government technical agency founded in 1976, headquartered in Santiago at Agustinas 1161 piso 4. It is owned and controlled by the Government of Chile and administered by a Council chaired by the Minister of Mining, with representation from the Minister of Finance, the Central Bank of Chile, and the President of the Republic. The current Vicepresidenta Ejecutiva (s) is Claudia Rodríguez Lagos, a lawyer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile who has served at COCHILCO since 2008 in legal roles before assuming the executive leadership role in 2022. The organization employs 101–250 staff and has operated for nearly five decades as Chile's primary technical advisory body on copper and mineral production.

COCHILCO's core offerings are statistical publications and digital regulatory platforms rather than commercial products. Core publications include La Rueda Diaria (daily copper price and inventory bulletin sourced from the LME, Comex, and Shanghai exchanges), the Informe Semanal del Cobre (weekly market analysis), the Anuario de Estadísticas del Cobre y Otros Minerales (annual statistics yearbook), the Boletín Mensual Electrónico, the Base de Datos Electrónica (BDE), and the Informe Trimestral del Cobre. Its digital platforms include the Sistema de Exportaciones Mineras (SEM 2.0) for registering copper and subproduct export contracts and the Sistema Integral de Información y Atención Ciudadana (SIAC) for citizen services. Specialized studies extend to sulfuric acid, lithium, critical inputs, investment, exploration, gender, costs, sustainability, and submarine mining.

The business model is non-commercial: COCHILCO is a government regulatory and advisory entity funded through the state budget. It does not sell products or services; publications are publicly distributed free of charge via the official website (cochilco.cl) and email newsletter subscriptions. Revenue mechanics rest on fiscal appropriations tied to its mandate rather than market transactions. The customer base consists of three primary stakeholder groups — the Chilean Government (Ministry of Mining and Ministry of Finance), copper exporters and large-scale mining companies (subject to export registration, IVV review, and reserve allocation), and the national copper manufacturing industry (which receives annual copper reserve allocations), with a secondary segment comprising the general public and international mining industry stakeholders accessing market data and forecasts.

Name

Chilean Copper Commission

Legal name

Comisión Chilena del Cobre

Website

https://cochilco.cl

Company type

Private

Founded year

1976

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

The Chilean Copper Commission (COCHILCO) is a Chilean government technical agency, founded in 1976, that advises the state on copper and mining policy, oversees copper export registration, and publishes authoritative daily, weekly, monthly, and annual statistics on Chile's copper industry.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Copper Mining Intelligence and Regulation

NAICS

Copper, Nickel, Lead, and Zinc Mining (21223), Support Activities for Metal Mining (213114)

SIC

Metal Mining (1000)

akta.pro primary industry

Carbon Market Data, Indices, Ratings & Price Reporting (MRPAs) (EUAGAIAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Duty Optimization & Special Programs (Drawback, FTZ, Bonded Warehouses, Inward/Outward Processing) (TLACAGAF), Environmental, Permitting & Closure Services (EIA, Compliance Monitoring, Reclamation Execution) (IMAKAKAJ)

Keywords

• Copper market intelligence
• Mining statistical reports
• Copper price reporting
• Mineral export regulation
• Mining industry advisory

Headquarters

HQ city

Santiago

HQ country

Chile

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

COCHILCO is a Chilean government technical agency that advises the Ministry of Mining and the Ministry of Finance on copper production, mining policy, and the safeguarding of state interests in mining enterprises. It produces and disseminates authoritative statistical publications on copper prices, production, exports, and inventories (e.g., La Rueda Diaria, weekly and annual reports) and operates digital regulatory systems (SEM 2.0 for export contract registration and SIAC for citizen services) to exercise fiscalization over copper and sub-product exports.

Product overview

The Chilean Copper Commission (COCHILCO) is a government technical agency that does not offer a commercial product in the traditional sense, but rather provides a portfolio of statistical publications, reports, and digital services related to copper and mining. The core offerings include La Rueda Diaria (daily copper price publication), the Informe Semanal del Cobre (weekly copper market report), the Anuario de Estadísticas del Cobre y Otros Minerales (annual statistics yearbook), and the Boletín Mensual Electrónico (monthly electronic bulletin). Supporting these are the Base de Datos Electrónica (electronic database), historical price and inventory data files, and reference price determinations. COCHILCO also operates digital platforms including the Sistema de Exportaciones Mineras (SEM 2.0) for managing export contracts and the Sistema Integral de Información y Atención Ciudadana (SIAC) for citizen services. The portfolio includes specialized reports on sulfuric acid, critical inputs, lithium, other metals, investment, exploration, gender, suppliers, costs, and sustainability, as well as procedures for copper reserve allocation, exporter registration, and IVV review. Together these products form an integrated information ecosystem serving the Chilean copper mining industry and related stakeholders.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• La Rueda Diaria Daily publication providing spot prices, futures prices, and copper inventories from major metal exchanges (LME, COMEX, Shanghai), along with gold, silver, and non-ferrous metal prices traded on the London Metal Exchange. Targeted at copper market participants, exporters, traders, government analysts, and researchers.
• Informe Semanal del Cobre Weekly analysis of the international copper market examining the main political and economic factors affecting metal prices over the past seven days, alongside inventory conditions at major exchanges. Targeted at government ministries, mining companies, exporters, and market analysts.
• Anuario de Estadísticas del Cobre y Otros Minerales Annual statistical compendium updating national and international copper and mining statistics, covering production, exports, mining taxation, energy and water consumption, sulfuric acid use, production costs, and personnel data disaggregated by gender. Targeted at government institutions, researchers, mining companies, and international mining stakeholders.
• Boletín Mensual Electrónico Monthly electronic bulletin that consolidates and indexes mining statistical information for efficient retrieval, providing timely access to monthly indicators. Targeted at researchers, analysts, journalists, and mining industry professionals.
• Base de Datos Electrónica (BDE) Web-accessible electronic database providing comprehensive mining statistical data, serving as the central data repository underpinning COCHILCO's publications and analyses. Targeted at researchers, government analysts, and mining industry data users.
• Sistema de Exportaciones Mineras (SEM 2.0) Digital regulatory platform that enables copper and sub-product exporters to register the essential terms of their export contracts across all sales modalities, including firm sales, conditional sales, and consignment. Targeted at Chilean copper exporters and trading companies that must comply with COCHILCO's export oversight mandate.
• Sistema Integral de Información y Atención Ciudadana (SIAC) Government system enabling citizens to interact with public agencies, exercise rights of access to public services, file requests, complaints, and suggestions, and obtain institutional information. Targeted at Chilean citizens and other stakeholders engaging with COCHILCO.
• Precios de Referencia Sustancias Metálicas Quarterly official reference prices for metallic and non-metallic substances, including the metric-ton value of copper used for regulatory and fiscalization purposes. Targeted at copper exporters, mining companies, and government tax authorities.
• Informe Trimestral del Cobre Quarterly in-depth analysis of the international copper market covering supply and demand dynamics, price projections, and longer-term outlooks. Targeted at government ministries, mining executives, and market analysts.
• Determinación de Reservas de Cobre para Industria Manufacturera Nacional Multi-stage annual process through which COCHILCO allocates national copper reserves to domestic manufacturing companies, covering global allocation, specific reserve assignment, and determination of non-incurred expenses. Targeted at Chilean manufacturing companies that consume domestically allocated copper reserves.

Quantifiable outcome

• Copper price forecast of US$ 5.55 per pound for 2026
• +1 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• CRU Group: Private subscription-based commodity intelligence provider with deep copper market coverage including price forecasting, mine cost analysis, and supply-demand models. Competes with COCHILCO's market analysis products for international copper market readership.
• Argus Media: Commodity price reporting and market intelligence publisher with established base-metals coverage. Directly comparable to COCHILCO's market data and weekly reporting products in terms of output cadence and customer overlap.
• Fastmarkets: Independent price reporting agency covering base metals, including copper prices and inventories across global exchanges. Overlaps with COCHILCO's La Rueda Diaria daily price publication in product and audience.
• U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Mineral Commodity Summaries: U.S. federal program producing authoritative annual mineral commodity data, including copper. Similar in being a government source of structured, publicly available mineral and metals market intelligence used by industry and policymakers.
• International Copper Study Group (ICSG): Intergovernmental body that produces global copper supply, demand, and trade statistics. Shares COCHILCO's mandate of authoritative copper market data and is the closest international peer in terms of copper-specific market reporting and forecasting.
• SERNAGEOMIN (Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería): Chile's national geology and mining service, the natural domestic complement to COCHILCO. SERNAGEOMIN handles geological surveillance and mine safety, while COCHILCO handles copper-economic and export oversight; both sit inside Chile's state mining oversight apparatus.

Broad incumbents

• Wood Mackenzie: Large, established commodity intelligence provider across energy and metals, with copper as one segment of a broader portfolio. Provides deeper commercial analysis than COCHILCO but operates in the same customer workflows for copper market outlook.
• S&P Global Commodity Insights (Platts Metals): Global commodity intelligence and benchmark price publisher covering copper and other base metals. A broader incumbent whose copper price assessments and analytics compete with COCHILCO's market reporting products internationally.

Others

• Sociedad Nacional de Minería (SONAMI): Chile's national mining industry trade association representing mining producers. Functionally adjacent to COCHILCO as another pillar of Chile's mining institutional ecosystem, focused on private-sector representation while COCHILCO focuses on state oversight.
• Ministerio de Minería de Chile: Chile's Ministry of Mining, the policy-setting counterpart that COCHILCO advises. Comparable as a state actor shaping Chile's mining policy environment, though operating at a higher political-strategic level rather than the technical/statistical level COCHILCO occupies.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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