Empresa Nacional de Minera (ENAMI) was founded on the 5th of April, 1960, inheriting a long tradition of small and medium size mining promotion that started in 1927 when the Mining Credit Fund ("Caja de Crdito Minero") was created. ENAMIs incentives and services enable small and medium size mining firms to access international metal markets, and thus to benefit from the better position of ENAMI to attain competitive "economies of scale" and "economies of scope". A central principle of ENAMIs management is to balance developing promotion activities with self-financing restrictions, since the Company should not be a net burden for the Central Government Budget. In fact, Government benefits from a special 40 per cent tax, applied only to public sector companies' gross income, and net profits withdrawals (100% dividend withdrawal) which, certainly, tend to more than balance annual Government Budget contributions to ENAMIs expenditure on promotion activities.