The mining record of Argentina
A federal country with no national cadastre. Mining in Argentina belongs to the provinces (Constitution art. 124), so the national layer is a project portfolio, SIACAM, that names each project's controlling companies and stage, and the registry itself lives in 23 provincial offices, of which San Juan and Salta serve live cadastres and Jujuy publishes its resolutions. No source carries a tax id (CUIT), and no level of government publishes a mining accident or a mining-authority sanction. The deaths here come from Spanish-language press, so every count is a floor, and requests filed on September 17, 2026 with the SRT, San Juan and Santa Cruz ask for the records that would replace it.
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No mining authority, provincial or national, publishes a sanction register, and no body publishes a mining accident naming the mine. Three access-to-information requests were filed on September 17, 2026: the SRT's case-level accident extract for the mining sector (national, Ley 27.275), and San Juan's and Santa Cruz's mining inspections, sanctions and accident notifications (provincial laws).
The SRT answered on October 13, 2026 with de-identified cases for 2010 to 2025, shown below. San Juan and Santa Cruz have not sent records yet.