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The Mountain's Price: Argentina Opens the Andes to the Biggest Mining Rush in Latin American History

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Key Points Argentina’s mining exports hit a record $6 billion in 2025, up 29%, as Milei’s government offers 30-year tax guarantees to attract global miners eyeing copper, lithium, and gold worth tens of billions of dollars. Eight major copper projects totaling $26 billion in planned investment could make Argentina a top-five global producer by 2035, […]

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Mendoza is a magnet for mountaineers, who travel there to reach the ceiling of America, the Aconcagua, with its 6,962 meters above sea level. This province of western Argentina also captivates lovers of good wine with its star strain, the Malbec. Now it has begun to receive those who look down, attracted by the possibility of extracting the riches buried in its subsoil: copper, lithium, gold, potassium and iron. Metal mining is one of the sector…

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The event will take place on May 27 and 28 in Mendoza, including exclusive technical visits to the province of San Juan. After consolidating itself as the technical reference in Chile and other mining districts of the region, Latin Rocks announces the launch of “Argentina Rocks 2026”. This congress specialized in geological exploration arrives at a key moment for the industry, with the aim of transforming the mineral potential of the country int…

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El Pais broke the news in Spain on Monday, February 2, 2026.
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