The offer of products of Codelco includes mainly copper at different stages and degrees of refinement, to a lesser extent the subproducts such as molybdenum, sulphuric acid and precious metals that come with copper in the ore.

Copper is processed in several stages from extraction and crushing of the ore to electrolythic refining, which allows to obtain 99.99% pure copper cathodes.

Codelco´s main product is a raw material of the highest quality for the fabrication of copper products aimed at end consumers throughout the world.

The first commercial copper product, in an increasing chain of added value, is the copper concentrate, which main components are copper, iron and sulfide.

During the same processing stage molybdenum, as bisulfide, is obtained, which is then processed to attain the commercial form of molybdenum trioxide.

Copper concentrate is smelted and converted to metallic copper, which allows it to attain forms that can be submitted to further refination, more than 99% pure, such as anodic copper and blister copper.

At this stage of smelting and conversion, metallurgical gases are generated which, after being treated, give rise to another subproduct, the sulphuric acid.

Metallic copper in turn is submitted to smelting and refining in special furnaces to produce lingotes refinados a fuego RAF, 99.9% pure copper.

The main application of anodic copper is to use it as raw material in the process of electrolythic refining, to produce the electrorefined cathode, 99.99% pure, the product with the highest added value before manufacture.

One of the products for which production the cathodes are used is the wire rod, which in turn is used to fabricate wires and cables.

In the process of electrolythic refining there appears another subproduct commercialized by Codelco, the anodic slimes, rich in silver and gold.