The mining record of Bolivia
18,967 filings in AJAM's gazette índices from 2016 to September 2026, by 6,238 named applicants, 2,318 of them cooperatives; at least 442 mining deaths reported in the press.
Bolivia's cadastre lives behind a login, so this page reads the one public trace: the índice AJAM posts every month with every filing the Gaceta Nacional Minera carried, by department and act, from a cooperative's application to a company's registered contract. It is a log of filings, not a list of who holds what. The deaths come from the press: El Potosí keeps a running police count for Potosí department alone that is larger than the labour ministry's national figure for every industry, because a cooperative socio has no employer to report the accident.
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One line of an índice table: a filing the gazette published that month under an act (an application proceeding, a rejection, a withdrawal, a registered contract...). The same mining area appears again at each stage.ⓘ
The 7-digit código único identifies the mining area in AJAM's cadastre; rejection, withdrawal and extinction tables print the resolution number instead.149 índices read, from 2016 to September 2026 (Gaceta Nº 9 of Sep 29, 2026), naming 6,238 applicants, 2,318 of them cooperatives (last read Oct 3, 2026). Every filing is kept, so the same mining area appears at each stage of its procedure; the cadastre that says who holds it today is not public.
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Counted from press headlines only; no Bolivian body publishes a per-fatality mining record, so the true number is undoubtedly higher.ⓘ
Events the headline itself places in a cooperative working, an informal or illegal site, or the Cerro Rico's shafts, as against a company's or COMIBOL's operation.Spanish-language headlines from Bolivia's press from 2012 to Oct 3, 2026, read daily through Google News' Bolivian edition (last pull Oct 10, 2026) and classified by a language model against the headline's own words. El Potosí's running FELCC count and La Patria's Oruro coverage carry most of it.
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The labour ministry's Boletín Estadístico counts Formularios de Denuncia de Accidente de Trabajo, which an EMPLOYER files for an employee. Every economic activity, no sector split. A cooperative miner is a socio, not an employee, so their death is outside this series.| Department | Official, every sector | Mining, press floor | |
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| Potosí | 30 | 311 | |
| La Paz | 25 | 8 | |
| Oruro | 10 | 7 | |
| Santa Cruz | 7 | 0 | |
| Cochabamba | 5 | 0 | |
| Beni | 1 | 0 | |
| Tarija | 1 | 0 |
The two columns are not the same thing and the page never adds them: the official figure is every industry's employer-reported deaths, the press floor is mining deaths the headlines name. Potosí's press count alone passes the national official total.
AJAM grants and extinguishes mining rights and publishes no inspections, accidents or sanctions; the labour ministry inspects under the 1979 Ley General de Higiene y Seguridad and publishes department totals once a year; the police and the Potosí prosecutor count mine deaths and publish nothing. No Bolivian body publishes a per-fatality mining record.
No request has been filed: Bolivia has no general access-to-information law and every request form demands a Bolivian cédula, so a request to the labour ministry, AJAM or the Potosí prosecutor needs a Bolivian requester.
“Las minas de Potosí cobran la vida de 120 trabajadores; las dos nuevas víctimas cayeron al vacío desde 40 y 50 metros”
“Derrumbe en mina del Cerro Rico de Potosí deja como saldo tres muertos y dos heridos”
“Revelan que muertos en mina son joven jornaleros”
“Tres jóvenes mineros pierden la vida en hundimiento de mina en el Cerro Rico de Potosí; dos resultan heridos, uno sufrió un TEC”
“Tres muertos en mina confirma alto deterioro del Cerro Rico de Potosí”
“Luto en el Cerro Rico: Derrumbe deja tres mineros fallecidos en Potosí”
“Tres mineros pierden la vida tras el hundimiento en una bocamina del Cerro Rico”
“Tragedia en el Cerro Rico: colapso de plataforma en la cota 4.400 deja tres mineros fallecidos”
“Tragedia en el Cerro Rico: tres mineros mueren tras un derrumbe”
“Tragedia en Potosí: tres mineros mueren tras un derrumbe en el Cerro Rico”
“Tragedia en Potosí: tres mineros mueren tras un derrumbe en el Cerro Rico”
“Tres jóvenes mineros pierden la vida en hundimiento de mina en el Cerro Rico de Potosí; dos resultan heridos, uno sufrió un TEC Visión 360”
Every event is one press item read by a language model: the sentence shown is the headline's own words, the applicant link exists only where the headline names an applicant in the gazette log, and the count is a floor.
| Act | Filings | Applicants | Last 24 months | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| application proceeding | 8,634 | 5,191 | 2,437 | |
| rejection | 3,342 | 4 | 807 | |
| withdrawal | 2,261 | 7 | 689 | |
| adecuación (conversion of a pre-2014 right) | 1,886 | 344 | 679 | |
| renunciation | 673 | 30 | 105 | |
| administrative mining contract | 598 | 439 | 136 | |
| contract application | 469 | 250 | 0 | |
| lapse (perención) | 463 | 8 | 189 | |
| prospecting and exploration licence | 327 | 230 | 115 | |
| extinction | 112 | 14 | 55 | |
| as printed (outside the vocabulary) | 45 | 2 | 38 | |
| contract extension | 19 | 9 | 2 | |
| temporary continuity (COMIBOL) | 18 | 1 | 0 | |
| term expired | 17 | 13 | 17 | |
| rectification | 16 | 14 | 0 | |
| revocation | 15 | 12 | 15 | |
| judicial decision | 11 | 8 | 7 | |
| grid squares excluded | 11 | 0 | 11 | |
| denial | 10 | 0 | 0 | |
| update of an act | 8 | 8 | 0 | |
| material impossibility | 6 | 0 | 4 | |
| modification | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| annulment | 4 | 0 | 1 | |
| presumed renunciation | 4 | 2 | 3 | |
| right restored | 3 | 3 | 1 | |
| restitution | 2 | 1 | 0 | |
| nationalised area | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| cancellation | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| area enabled | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| appeal | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| planimetric annex | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| reserve restriction | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| reversion to the state | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| suspension | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The act is the section title the índice prints, mapped to a family: an application proceeding (prosecución) is a request in progress; a registered contract (registro minero) is a right the authority recorded; a rejection, withdrawal, lapse or renunciation ends one. A title outside the parser's vocabulary is kept as printed and marked unmapped.
| Directorate | Filings | Applicants | Deaths (floor) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Paz | 7,577 | 2,774 | 101 | |
| Tupiza - Tarija | 3,418 | 1,191 | 93 | |
| Potosí - Chuquisaca | 1,936 | 807 | 404 | |
| Santa Cruz | 1,714 | 463 | 93 | |
| Cochabamba | 1,494 | 528 | 93 | |
| Potosí | 794 | 396 | 404 | |
| Oruro | 760 | 262 | 100 | |
| Chuquisaca | 292 | 114 | 93 | |
| Potosí, Oruro | 0 | 0 | 415 | |
| Caracoles | 0 | 0 | 99 | |
| Sorata | 0 | 0 | 99 | |
| Quime | 0 | 0 | 96 | |
| Colquiri | 0 | 0 | 95 | |
| Huanuni | 0 | 0 | 95 |
AJAM files by departmental directorate (La Paz, Oruro, Potosí, Cochabamba, Santa Cruz) and by two regional ones (Potosí - Chuquisaca, Tupiza - Tarija). Press deaths are counted under the directorate whose name carries the department the headline names; most fall in Potosí.
| Applicant | Filings | Last 24 months | Press accidents | Directorates | Last gazette |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CORPORACIÓN MINERA DE BOLIVIA - COMIBOL | 125 | 30 | 0 | La Paz; Oruro; Potosí; Potosí - Chuquisaca; Santa Cruz; Tupiza - Tarija | October 2025 |
| COMIBOL | 32 | 32 | 0 | La Paz; Oruro; Santa Cruz | August 2026 |
| EMPRESA MINERA & CONSTRUCTORA BOMBORI S.R.L. | 56 | 15 | 0 | Chuquisaca; La Paz; Oruro; Potosí; Potosí - Chuquisaca; Tupiza - Tarija | September 2026 |
| EMPRESA MINERA "MAKHAIRA" BOLIVIA S.R.L. | 12 | 12 | 0 | La Paz | September 2026 |
| EMPRESA MINERA RESILIENTE S.R.L. | 12 | 11 | 0 | La Paz | May 2026 |
| EMPRESA MINERA PUTUKO S.R.L. | 11 | 11 | 0 | Tupiza - Tarija | February 2026 |
| ESPECIALISTAS EN MINERALES CALIZOS S.A. | 24 | 9 | 0 | Cochabamba; La Paz; Oruro; Santa Cruz; Tupiza - Tarija | June 2026 |
| AOC MINING CO. | 10 | 10 | 0 | Oruro; Potosí; Tupiza - Tarija | March 2026 |
| PALMAM ACIRU S.R.L. | 10 | 10 | 0 | La Paz | August 2026 |
| EMPRESA MINERA DIAMANTE DE LOS ANDES S.R.L. | 10 | 9 | 0 | Potosí; Tupiza - Tarija | June 2026 |
| MARIROS MINING | 10 | 9 | 0 | Santa Cruz | September 2026 |
| EMPRESA MINERA FLORESRODRIGUEZ S.R.L. | 13 | 8 | 0 | Tupiza - Tarija | January 2026 |
| COOPERATIVA MINERA "NUEVA CALAMARCA" R.L. cooperative | 8 | 8 | 0 | Potosí | April 2026 |
| CORPORACION MINERA DE BOLIVIA (COMIBOL) | 8 | 8 | 0 | Santa Cruz | May 2026 |
| EMPRESA MINERA MEMISA S.A. | 8 | 8 | 0 | La Paz; Tupiza - Tarija | June 2026 |
| EMPRESA MINERA SIPOTENDI S.R.L. | 8 | 8 | 0 | Chuquisaca | September 2026 |
| EMPRESA MINERA GRAN MISTERIO S.R.L. | 16 | 7 | 0 | Potosí - Chuquisaca; Tupiza - Tarija | March 2026 |
| EMPRESA MINERA ORTIZSOL S.R.L. | 14 | 7 | 0 | La Paz | August 2026 |
| FANY ROSARIO SOLIZ MEDRANO | 8 | 7 | 0 | La Paz | August 2026 |
| JORGE JORGE CHAJTUR GUTIERREZ | 8 | 7 | 0 | Santa Cruz | May 2026 |
| CEMARLU S.R.L. | 7 | 7 | 0 | Santa Cruz | December 2025 |
| COOPERATIVA MINERA "AYLLU PALACIO TAMBO" R.L. cooperative | 17 | 6 | 0 | Chuquisaca; Potosí - Chuquisaca | July 2026 |
| EMPRESA MINERA 168 S.R.L. | 7 | 7 | 0 | Potosí; Tupiza - Tarija | December 2025 |
| MYCELIUM MINERALS BOLIVIA MMB S.R.L. | 7 | 7 | 0 | Santa Cruz | February 2026 |
| SOMINKOR S.R.L. | 11 | 6 | 0 | Potosí | September 2025 |
| COOPERATIVA MINERA "SALINAS CHIPARA" R.L. cooperative | 9 | 6 | 0 | Potosí; Potosí - Chuquisaca | July 2026 |
| KAUWSIMINING S.R.L. | 19 | 5 | 0 | La Paz; Oruro; Potosí - Chuquisaca; Tupiza - Tarija | May 2026 |
| TEKOMBOE S.R.L. | 9 | 6 | 0 | Cochabamba; Oruro; Potosí - Chuquisaca; Tupiza - Tarija | May 2026 |
| GOLDMININGBOLIVIA S.R.L. | 8 | 6 | 0 | Cochabamba; Potosí; Tupiza - Tarija | February 2026 |
| EMPRESA MINERA LA LAGUNA S.A. | 7 | 6 | 0 | Potosí - Chuquisaca; Santa Cruz | September 2026 |
Ranked by press events, filings in the last 24 months and filings overall. Every applicant has a page; this table shows the top of the ranking. An applicant is named as the índice spells it, so one cooperative with two spellings is two rows.
| Month | Gazette | Filings | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | Índice Nº 8 · Sep 29, 2026 → | 47 | read |
| September 2026 | Índice Nº 9 · Sep 29, 2026 → | 46 | read |
| September 2026 | Índice Nº 9 · Sep 6, 2026 → | 150 | read |
| August 2026 | Índice Nº 8 · Aug 9, 2026 → | 146 | read |
| August 2026 | PDF → | 0 | read |
| July 2026 | Índice Nº 5 · Jul 28, 2026 → | 82 | read |
| July 2026 | Índice Nº 7 · Jul 5, 2026 → | 149 | read |
| June 2026 | Índice Nº 4 · Jun 30, 2026 → | 76 | read |
| June 2026 | Índice Nº 3 · Jun 16, 2026 → | 128 | read |
| June 2026 | Índice Nº 6 · Jun 7, 2026 → | 148 | read, unmapped titles |
| May 2026 | Índice Nº 5 · May 10, 2026 → | 199 | read |
| April 2026 | Índice Nº 2 · Apr 28, 2026 → | 123 | read |
162 PDFs read from AJAM's gazette page: 144 read in full, 6 with a section title or department outside it (their rows are kept, marked unmapped), 9 refused because the page layout or the font defeated the parser (no rows written), 3 scanned images with no text. A file that cannot be read is flagged for review.
Autoridad Jurisdiccional Administrativa Minera (AJAM), Dirección de Catastro y Cuadriculado Minero, Gaceta Nacional Minera, índices mensuales (PDF), 2016 to date: 18,967 records, fetched Oct 3, 2026. →
The índices are read from AJAM's PDFs. The cadastre (SINCOBOL), the patent and the mineral-trade registers are login-gated and are not read.