McEwen Copper has the purchase of the mine's drills, loading equipment and haul trucks in final evaluation, and each export credit agency finances what is built in its own country. Finland moved first, through Metso. EXIM Bank signed a framework of up to $7 billion with Argentina and allows terms of up to seven years for Argentine borrowers.
Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno confirmed the accession for the June 25–26 summit in Washington. The initiative runs from critical minerals to energy before reaching semiconductors — and that is where Argentina's place is defined. The test shifts from the signature to financing and supply contracts.
The Miguel Galuccio-led company averaged 139,469 bbl/d of crude in May, up 39.5% year-on-year, in its first full month consolidating Bandurria Sur and Bajo del Toro. Directly operated areas rose 2.8% from April.
At the Shale24-Santander Energy Summit, CEO Rodolfo Freyre dated the start of construction on the 471-km dedicated pipeline and walked through the engineering still standing between the project and its first export cargo: a mooring system being built in Europe and anchored at 40 meters, a logistics base that does not yet exist at the Río Negro port, and a dedicated line that required project finance.
With the Vicuña copper-gold project alone projecting up to 15,000 construction workers, the country faces a paradox: never has the opportunity been larger, and never has filling the roles been harder
The Siemens Argentina CEO and new AHK Argentina president sees the country at a turning point across mining, Vaca Muerta technology, and an investor climate loaded with expectation — but warns that without skilled-trades training, the industrial boom has a ceiling
The ASX-listed explorer is testing a deeper copper porphyry target beneath the high-grade silver-zinc-copper-gold mineralization reported at Toro Central
Official projections from Argentina's National Mining Secretariat point to mining exports of $36.25 billion by 2035, up from the $6.1 billion record posted in 2025. Pipeline projects will require a minimum capex floor of around $57 billion — $41.2 billion for nine copper projects and $14 billion for twelve lithium operations.
The Feasibility Study projects average annual output of 148,000 tonnes over 22 years, with a $5.4 billion NPV and 27.8% after-tax IRR at the study's $5.45/lb sensitivity price — making Los Azules the first copper project in Argentina under RIGI
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It is the seventh lithium project to apply for inclusion in Argentina’s Large Investment Incentive Regime (RIGI), of which three have already been approved. The Chinese mining company has committed an investment of $3 billion to be deployed in three phases.
With Veladero and Diablillos, the sector now accounts for six of the 12 projects approved under the regime. The pending pipeline — led by Glencore with $13.5 billion in copper projects — suggests that share will grow even further.
The company is already executing the second phase of its drilling program, focusing on the western sector of the target, where even stronger chargeability anomalies have been detected than those previously drilled.
