Chilean Mining Magazine Highlights Workshop with Lundin Foundation in Argentina

Nigel Wight presents research on the El Cobre tragedy at Tailings 2026 Congress

Oct 2, 2026

At Chile’s most important conference on tailings, the SMI Chile researcher presented findings on what can be learned from the memory of the disaster that struck the El Soldado mine in 1965. “What Remains: Disaster Risk and Emergency Preparedness in a Chilean Mining...

SMI Chile and UDD’s C+ Centre present research advances from the Match Fund project

Oct 1, 2026

As part of the joint work between SMI Chile and the Centre for Research in Technologies for Society (C+) at UDD’s Faculty of Engineering, researchers Diego Ocampo and Javiera de la Fuente presented their respective research findings at a seminar entitled “Snow, salt...

SMI Chile delivers new social performance training courses for the Vicuña project in Argentina

Sep 25, 2026

SMI Chile researchers Mónica Morales and Nigel Wight travelled to the city of San Juan, where they delivered two new training courses on the social performance of this future mining operation, developed through a joint venture between BHP and Lundin Mining. Vicuña...

Mónica Morales presents a territorial governance perspective at Lithium Forum 2026

Sep 14, 2026

The lead researcher of SMI Chile’s Social Performance and Resource Governance team addressed the key public policy challenges surrounding participation mechanisms related to lithium governance. Her participation took place during the panel discussion “Indigenous...