Ann: Power Expands Argentinian Lithium Asset Portfolio, page-236

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Publicly available information and data

What information and data are publicly available to private parties that wish to engage in exploration and other mining activities? Is there an agency, or securities commission regulating public companies, which collects mineral assessment reports from private parties? Must private parties file mineral assessment reports? Does the agency or the government conduct geoscience surveys, which become part of the database? Is the database available online?

Law No. 24,466 created the National Database of Geological Information, managed by the public entity SEGEMAR, whose mission is to obtain, process and make available to the public all information generated by the geological and geophysical research and exploration activities conducted within Argentine territory.

The national government and other national entities, as well as the miners’ beneficiaries registered under MIL, are required to periodically supply the database with all the mining and geological information produced, with the exception of confidential material.

In recent years, the Argentine government has worked towards establishing an open-government policy as an effort to increase transparency in relation to public information. In this respect, a national and provincial database, the Argentine Mining Information Centre (CIMA), was created. This database has very recently been updated and renamed the Federal System of Mining Information (SIFIM) and compiles information at a national and provincial level, among which the following are included:

• applicable legislation;
• a unified mining cadastre;
• information regarding the MIL registry; and
• current projects’ specifications.

SIFIM currently provides for the mining cadastre of every mining province (ie, Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Cordoba, Chubut, Jujuy, La Rioja, Mendoza, Neuquén, Rio Negro, Salta, San Juan, Santa Cruz, Santiago del Estero and Tucuman). Some provinces provide mining cadastral maps that are available online – which may be more up to date than the unified national cadastre – and some others only deliver them upon request by the authorities. Despite this, in practice, and locally, certain information may not be available, updated or publicly accessible.

Key online databases

	Scope	Database
1	National	www.segemar.gov.ar
2	National	http://cima.minem.gob.ar
3	Unified cadastre	https://sig.se.gob.ar/visor/visorMineria.php
4	Province of San Juan	https://datosabiertos.sanjuan.gob.ar/dataset/catastro-minero-digital-google-earth
5	Province of Catamarca	http://www.mineria.catamarca.gov.ar
6	Province of Salta	http://geoportal.idesa.gob.ar/maps/648
7	Province of Jujuy	http://www.mineriajujuy.gob.ar/site/jam_catastro.php
8	Province of Rio Negro	http://mineriaide.rionegro.gov.ar/maps/19
9	Province of Neuquén	http://hidrocarburos.energianeuquen.gov.ar