Annual Report and Accounts

Antofagasta PLC
09 May 2006




                                 Antofagasta plc

         Annual Report and Financial Statements and Notices of Meetings



London, 9 May 2006


Antofagasta plc (the 'Company') will post today its 2005 annual report and
financial statements ('Annual Report and Financial Statements') to shareholders.


The Annual Report and Financial Statements contain the notice of the Annual
General Meeting and notices of separate class meetings of the ordinary and
preference shareholders of the Company. The meetings to which these notices
relate are to be held at Canning House, 2 Belgrave Square, London SW1 on 14 June
2006 from 10.30 a.m. The Annual Report and Financial Statements contain a
section which sets out details of the following special business to be proposed
at these meetings:


   • to increase the number of ordinary shares in issue through the bonus
    issue of four new ordinary shares (credited as fully paid) for each ordinary
    share held by shareholders of the Company at the close of business on 16
    June 2006 and, consequently, in order to maintain the voting rights of each
    preference share as a proportion of total votes entitled to be exercised at
    a general meeting, an increase in the voting rights carried by each
    preference share to 100 votes;


   • the adoption of revised articles of association of the Company; and


   • the grant of a general authority to the Company to make market purchases
    of ordinary shares representing up to 10 per cent. of the issued ordinary
    share capital of the Company (as enlarged following the bonus issue).


Two copies of the Annual Report and Financial Statements (containing the
circular) and the proposed revised articles of association have been submitted
to the UK Listing Authority and will shortly be available for inspection at the
UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at Financial
Services Authority, 25 The North Colonnade, London E14 5HS. Each of these
documents will also be available on the Company's website at
www.antofagasta.co.uk.



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Antofagasta plc                                             Bankside Consultants
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www.antofagasta.co.uk                                                           
                                                                     Keith Irons
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