Company: SQM
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0000909037-25-000020
Chunk: 93

Company: CHEMICAL & MINING CO OF CHILE INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4A
Chunk 93
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) Pampa Orcoma: (69°57’22"W), (19°56’19"S); and (iv) Pampa Blanca (69°38’11"W), (23°09’49"S). 
The map below shows the location of SQM's principal mining operations in Australia and the mining and exploration concessions that have been granted to the Mount Holland Joint Venture.
Figure 2. Australia’s south-west showing the location of the Mt Holland project mine Site, concentrator and refinery; location of Mt. Holland tenements; Kwinana refinery site in Perth, Western Australia. Location coordinates longitude and latitude, respectively of (i) Mt. Holland Tenements: (119º45’0”E), (32º5’24”S); (ii) Kwinana Refinery: (115º46’12”E), (32º13’12”S).
Mining Concessions in Chile
SQM holds mining rights in Chile pursuant to mining concessions for exploration and exploitation of mining resources granted pursuant to applicable law in Chile. For a discussion of the mining concessions, see “Material Individual Properties — El Norte Grande — Mining Concessions for the Exploration and Exploitation of Caliche Ore” and “—Salar de Atacama Mining Concessions for Exploitation of Brines.”
As of December 31, 2024, approximately 99.33% of SQM’s mining interests in Chile were held pursuant to Mining Exploitation Concessions and 0.67% pursuant to Mining Exploration Concessions. Of the Mining Exploitation Concessions, approximately 99.05% already have been granted pursuant to applicable Chilean law, and approximately 0.95% are in the process of being granted. Of the Mining Exploration Concessions, approximately 100% already have been granted pursuant to applicable Chilean law.
In 2024, we made payments of US$20.3 million to the Chilean government for Mining Exploration and Exploitation Concessions, including the concessions we lease from Corfo. These payments do not include the payments we made directly to Corfo pursuant to the SQM-Corfo Agreements, according to the percentages of the sales price of products produced using brines from the Salar de Atacama.
The following table shows the Mining Exploitation and Exploration Concessions held by SQM, including the mining properties we lease from Corfo, as of December 31, 2024: