President Javier Milei received senior executives from the Vicuña Joint Venture this Thursday at Casa Rosada. The meeting served as an opportunity to review the project's progress, its staged development plan, and the projected investment roadmap under the Large-Scale Investment Incentive Regime (RIGI), for which the company applied under the PEELP category (Strategic Export Projects with Long-Term Horizons).
By Panorama Minero
The meeting was attended by Jack Lundin (CEO of Lundin Mining), Carlos Ramírez (Vice President at BHP and Chairman of the Vicuña Board), Ron Hochstein (CEO of Vicuña Corp.), and José Morea (Country Director for Argentina and Chile at Vicuña Corp.), along with Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno and President Milei.
During the meeting, the parties emphasized the importance of moving forward with a structural reform agenda to ensure legal certainty, clear rules, and stable conditions for the development of long-term mining initiatives. “The RIGI was also highlighted as a key instrument for securing large-scale investments that require modern and competitive regulatory frameworks,” sources said.
The Vicuña Project integrates the Josemaría and Filo del Sol deposits, located in the Andes range in the province of San Juan, near the border with Chile. While it is a binational development, all investments submitted under RIGI are being carried out in Argentina. “The plan includes advancing technical studies and publishing an integrated technical report during the first quarter of 2026, consolidating one of the country’s most significant copper development platforms.”
