IGF Case Study: Mine Closure Policies in South America
Governments in Latin America are transitioning away from relying on mining corporations to follow international best practices and toward developing national legislation surrounding mine closure.
Across the region, there are many countries where legislative expectations around mine closure are established through environmental and social impact assessments (ESIAs) for new mining projects. But this ESIA process has historically failed to protect the state against inheriting the financial liabilities for closing a mine site in the case of a bankruptcy or other events where the company is unwilling or unable to pay for the cost of closure.
In Latin America, to date only Chile and Peru have established comprehensive, national mine closure legislation that requires mining operations to provide financial assurance for closure liabilities. This report examines Chile and Peru’s policies.
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