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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001144204-12-064627
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	6-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20121123
FILED AS OF DATE:		20121123
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20121123

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			CHEMICAL & MINING CO OF CHILE INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000909037
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	MINING, QUARRYING OF NONMETALLIC MINERALS (NO FUELS) [1400]
		IRS NUMBER:				000000000
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			F3
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		6-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	033-65728
		FILM NUMBER:		121222338

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		EL TROVADOR 4285, 6TH FLOOR
		STREET 2:		LAS CONDES
		CITY:			SANTIAGO CHILE
		STATE:			F3
		ZIP:			00000
		BUSINESS PHONE:		5624252485
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">UNITED STATES OF AMERICA</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">Washington, D.C. 20549</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>FORM 6-K</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">REPORT OF FOREIGN ISSUER</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">PURSUANT TO RULE 13A-16 OR 15D-16</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">OF THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">Includes the free translation of a material
event filed by Sociedad Qu&iacute;mica y Minera de Chile S.A.<BR>
before the Superintendencia de Valores y Seguros de Chile on November
20, 2012.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><U>SOCIEDAD QUIMICA Y MINERA DE CHILE S.A.</U></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">(Exact name of registrant as specified in
its charter)</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><U>CHEMICAL AND MINING COMPANY OF CHILE
INC.</U></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><U>El Trovador 4285, Santiago, Chile (562)
425-2000</U></P>

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offices)</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">Indicate by check mark whether the registrant
files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F.</P>

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    <TD STYLE="width: 45%; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Form 20-F&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Wingdings">x</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 50%; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Form 40-F&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Wingdings">&uml;</FONT></TD></TR>
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by furnishing the information contained in this Form is also thereby furnishing the information to the Commission pursuant to Rule
12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.</P>

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    <TD STYLE="width: 45%; text-align: justify">Yes&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Wingdings">&uml;</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 50%; text-align: justify">No&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Wingdings">x</FONT></TD></TR>
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below the file number assigned to the registrant in connection with Rule 12g3-2(b): 82_________</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">SQM hereby informs you that the Board of
Directors of Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile S.A. (SQM), which met today in an Ordinary Board Meeting, unanimously agreed to
pay and distribute the interim dividend as referred to in &quot;SQM&rsquo;s Dividends Policy for the Business year 2012&quot; which
was informed to SQM&rsquo;s Annual Ordinary Shareholder Meeting on April 26 of this year. This, with the essential purpose of being
able to pay and distribute an interim dividend of US$0.94986 per share and which is approximately equal to the total amount of
US$250 million and, the latter equal to 49.3% of the distributable net income for the business year 2012 being accumulated as of
September 30 of this year. The above will be charged against the net income of said business year, in favor of the Shareholders
appear registered in SQM&rsquo;s Shareholder Registry on the fifth working day prior to December 12, and in its equivalent in national
currency according to the value of the &quot;Observed Dollar&quot; or &quot;USA Dollar&quot; that appears published in the Official
Gazette on December 5, 2012.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">We notify the above as an <B>essential
fact</B> and pursuant to the provisions established for this purpose in Articles 9 and 10, second paragraph, of Law N&deg;18,045.
This is also pursuant to the provisions in &quot;SQM&rsquo;s Dividends Policy for the Business year 2012&quot; and in the Bulletins
N&deg;660 and N&deg;687 and in the General Regulation N&deg;30 of the Superintendence of Securities and Insurance.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>SIGNATURES</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center"><B>SOCIEDAD QUIMICA Y MINERA DE CHILE S.A.</B></P>

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    <TD STYLE="width: 20%; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid">/s/ Ricardo Ramos R.</TD>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">Ricardo Ramos R.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">Chief Financial Officer</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">Date: November 22, 2012.</P>

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