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The government of Chile has plans for a billion-dollar mining project because it would marine life. The area that was with mining is home to 80 per cent of the world's Humboldt penguin. Other creatures that in the waters include blue whales, fin whales and sea otters. A mining company Andes Iron had to extract millions of tons of iron and copper in the north of Chile. It also to build a new port to facilitate the mining process. Chile's Environment Minister told reporters: "I firmly in development, but it cannot at the cost of our environmental heritage or risk to health, or to unique ecological areas in the world."

Chile's National Mining Society said the decision bad news for mining and for the country. It said the mining project essential for the economic development of the region and the country. The controversial mining project would have $2.5 billion in revenue. Government ministers the mining company had not the full negative impact of the mining project on the local environment. It also the project's finances. The Environmental Minister said: "There deficiencies in basic information and insufficiencies in mitigation, compensation, and reparation measures, meaning we that the eventual impacts have not properly care of."