Ministerio de Energía y Minería

Presidencia de la Nación

Secretaría deCoordinación dePolíticaMinera

Why Mining in Argentina

70% of GDP

69% of total country population 71% of exportations 70% of existing infrastructure

Pampeana Region

30% of Argentina territory

Chile

8,1 % GDP

Economic Development Geographically

Concentrated in Pampeana Region

2025 Mining Industry GDP: 3% to 4% of total GDP

2025 Argentina Mining: geographically balancedeconomic development

Mining

Industry GDP

0,74% of total

GDP

Oil & Gas Mining

EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES PRODUCTION

Océano AtlánticoOcéano Pacífico

0m

3.000 m

5.500 m

Sección topográfica- geológica en cruz

CHILE

Cu - AuPachónCu - Au

Salar de Olaroz Salar del Hombre Muerto

LiLiAtacama

Pelambres Bajo de la Alumbrera

Agua Rica

Taca TacaCu, Au, Mo

ARGENTINA

Lama Au, AgPascua Au, Ag

Río Turbio Carbón

0m

Vista por secciones

POTENCIAL GEOLÓGICO

Key exploration areas

5000

KM

GEOLOGICAL/ MINING POTENTIAL

Exploration Investment required: USD 300 / 400 M/Y

Surfaces with potential for exploration to be granted: 65%

AREA 1 Santa Cruz

AREA 2 Río Negro & Chubut

AREA 3

AREA 4

AREA 5

AREA 6

Neuquén

Mendoza, San Juan & La Rioja

La Rioja & Catamarca

Catamarca, Salta & Jujuy

GEOLOGICAL / MINING POTENTIAL

20 Años de Gran Minería / Minería Metalífera

14 Mining projects in production

2 Mining projects under Construction

11 Mining projects at Feasibility Stage

21 Mining projects in Advanced Exploration Stage

34 Mining projects in Medium-to-Advanced

Exploration

77 Mining projects in Early-Stage Exploration

Gold & Silver

Copper

Lithium

Lithium Boom

RESULTS

35 new mining companiesintroduced in the country

Source: Sedar, Operating Companies, Province Official Entities

Pegmatite District Qty. Project Status

1- El Quemado 1 El Quemado Exploration

2- Ancasti 2 Vilisman - Ancasti Exploration

3- Altautina 1 Las Tapias Mine Exploration

4- Conlara 1 Las Cuevas Mine Exploration

5- Pegmatite Districts La Estanzuela & Conlara

1La Estanzuela -Conlara

Exploration

3

1

2

4 5

Córdoba

La Rioja

San Luis

Catamarca

Salta

Backgrounds:

- 1936 San Luis & Córdoba- First registry of Lithium minerals

production Exportations almost exclusively to the USA

(military and aerospace industries)

- 1966 first economic extraction of Lithium from brines in

Nevada, the USA, with significantly lower costs associated

to the extraction process. Production from pegmatites

declines

- 1997, FMC Lithium starts the production and

exportation of Lithium (Chloride and Carbonate)

products at Salar del Hombre Muerto, Catamarca.

PROJECT STATUS IN ARGENTINA –

PEGMATITE DISTRICTS

3 12

456

78

109

1112 13

1415

1617

1819

20

2122

23

Jujuy

Salta

Catamarca

La Rioja

Source: Sedar, Operating Companies, Province Official Entities

In operation: 2 Expansion Project : 2 Construction :2 Feasibility/Adv. Exploration: 10 Grass root expl./Prospecting: >40

LegendOperation/Production

Construction

Feasibility/Adv.Exploration

Grass root Expl./Prospecting

Expansion

PROJECT STATUS SURVEY IN ARGENTINA

- SALAR BRINES / SALT LAKES-

MOST ADVANCED PROJECTS IN LITHIUM SALAR BRINES

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