Managing Mining Risk in Latin America
7 key areas that pose dangers and how miners and investors can best manage them
Latin America is now the primary engine for the global energy transition…
yet the region faces a critical bottleneck of Tier-1 assets. With easy discoveries depleted, capital is shifting toward early-stage greenfield projects with extended ROI horizons.
This pivot exposes investors to a more complex, modern risk environment where geological potential is often secondary to ESG and regulatory hurdles.
Beyond investors, this risk environment impacts mining companies, particularly teams focused on CSR, sustainability, external affairs, public policy, ESG, security, asset protection, and government relations, among others.
In particular, 7 key risk factors are dominant in Latin American mining:
Managing Mining Risk
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Based on AMI’s 30+ years of experience in Latin America and 200+ mining risk analysis projects completed since 2000, this report breaks down what drives each risk, key stakeholders involved, and which reality-tested strategies will allow you to detect, de-escalate, and defuse these risks.
Organized for quick and easy reference, Managing Mining Risk in Latin America showcases ways to:
- Go beyond CSR to connect and build lasting relationships with local communities
- Anticipate changes in political winds that can impact royalties
- Find common ground with mining unions and build consensus
- Leverage local power brokers to enhance security
- Develop renewable power sources that can benefit local stakeholders
- Identify shared priorities with 8 common types of mining opponents and develop engagement strategies to reach alignment
- Foresee regulatory turbulence and craft an approach to calm it
- Smooth out conflicts with informal miners
- Address talent shortages while benefitting local communities
- Anticipate currency collapse and other economic challenges
…as well as other approaches that promote lasting stability while anticipating—and preparing for—future sources of risk.
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