en.Wedoany.com Reported - At the Expocobre 2026 conference, Nelson Trejo, President of Epiroc's Parts & Services division for the Americas, proposed that Regenerative Mining (Minería Regenerativa) could become a new paradigm to break the investment deadlock in Latin America.

Despite countries like Peru, Chile, and Mexico possessing advanced technological tools, the mining industry still faces structural constraints such as a lack of social trust, complex regulations, and land conflicts, which hinder new investments. Trejo stated that the industry must evolve to ensure its survival and prosperity.

He pointed out that many current project standstills are not due to technical issues, but rather the difficulty in reaching agreements with the communities and regions where they operate. Regenerative mining not only seeks to minimize environmental impact but also strives to create positive value for the region, integrating social, environmental, and economic variables from the very beginning of project design.

Trejo revealed that Latin America receives only 25% of the global mineral exploration budget, not due to a lack of geological potential, but because projects are evaluated using Excel models that fail to fully capture regional complexity. He emphasized that legitimacy is becoming a key variable for a project's practical feasibility; a lack of legitimacy leads to uncertainty in operational continuity, thereby making returns fragile.

Regenerative mining is not intended to replace existing models but to complement them. Trejo believes that Peru has the unique conditions to become a global "laboratory" for regenerative mining: it possesses a deep mining heritage and highly specialized technology, plays a key role in global copper production, and has the potential to respond to new social and environmental expectations.

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