Sociedad Nacional de Minería (SONAMI) Chile
About Us
The National Mining Society (SONAMI) is the trade union institution that groups and represents in Chile large, medium and small-scale, metallic and non-metallic mining activities.
It was founded on September 26, 1883. Since its creation, it has contributed to the development of private mining and the improvement of mining institutions and legislation, as well as the professionalization of workers in the sector.
It currently brings together 76 medium and large mining companies and supplier companies, as well as 38 regional mining associations, representing more than two thousand small mining entrepreneurs.
Currently, SONAMI has two non-profit foundations for the development of its strategic objectives: the National Mining Society Foundation and the Technological Foundation for Mining, focused on job training and preparation of people, in research, development and diffusion of culture and art; and in the diffusion and technological transfer.
OBJECTIVES
- Promote and promote the productive development and the institutional and legal improvement of Chilean mining, to build better realities for Chile and its people.
- Be the benchmark of mining activity in Chile and represent all its associates before national and international authorities and organizations.
- Provide information and support services to its associates in technical, legal, labor, environmental, tax and economic matters.
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