SANTIAGO (Reuters) -The world's biggest copper miner, Chile's Codelco, has named Gonzalo Lara Skiba as vice president of integrating operations at Andina, a role in which he will spearhead a shared mine plan between Codelco's Andina and Anglo American's Los Bronces.

"This vice presidency faces the challenge of transforming the strategic agreement into concrete and sustainable operations," Codelco said in a statement.

Cesar Jimenez Soto will take over Lara Skiba's current role, becoming interim General Manager of the Ministro Hales mine in November.