{"id":37136,"date":"2026-09-30T18:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T21:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elfederalmendoza.com.ar\/?p=37136"},"modified":"2026-09-30T18:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T21:45:11","slug":"descubren-una-concentracion-de-oro-sin-precedentes-y-proyectan-una-mina-para-los-proximos-30-anos-muy-cerca-de-la-rioja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elfederalmendoza.com.ar\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/descubren-una-concentracion-de-oro-sin-precedentes-y-proyectan-una-mina-para-los-proximos-30-anos-muy-cerca-de-la-rioja\/","title":{"rendered":"Descubren una concentraci\u00f3n de oro sin precedentes y proyectan una mina para los pr\u00f3ximos 30 a\u00f1os muy cerca de La Rioja"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Minas Argentinas confirm\u00f3 en Gualcamayo la ley de oro m\u00e1s alta registrada en la historia del yacimiento. El hallazgo multiplica por diez los m\u00e1ximos anteriores y ubica al proyecto sanjuanino entre los descubrimientos m\u00e1s destacados de la miner\u00eda mundial.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El yacimiento Gualcamayo, ubicado en el departamento J\u00e1chal, San Juan, acaba de registrar un hallazgo que podr\u00eda marcar un antes y un despu\u00e9s en la miner\u00eda argentina. La empresa Minas Argentinas inform\u00f3 la detecci\u00f3n de una intersecci\u00f3n de <strong>1,80 metros con una ley extraordinaria de 1.510 gramos de oro por tonelada de roca<\/strong>, acompa\u00f1ada por <strong>1.250 gramos de plata por tonelada<\/strong>, durante tareas de exploraci\u00f3n en profundidad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DC9gOsSOV5t\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"><div style=\"padding:16px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DC9gOsSOV5t\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; 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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DC9gOsSOV5t\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\">Una publicaci\u00f3n compartida por Argentina Mining (@argentinamining)<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>La cifra impacta por s\u00ed sola: equivale a <strong>1,51 kilos de oro por cada tonelada de material extra\u00eddo<\/strong>, una concentraci\u00f3n considerada excepcional a nivel internacional. Seg\u00fan la compa\u00f1\u00eda, se trata de la <strong>ley aur\u00edfera m\u00e1s alta documentada en la historia de Gualcamayo<\/strong>, superando en m\u00e1s de diez veces los mejores registros previos obtenidos en la mina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El descubrimiento se produjo en el sondaje identificado como <strong>26QD-1649<\/strong>, dentro del cuerpo mineralizado denominado <strong>\u201cSantiago\u201d<\/strong>, perteneciente al proyecto <strong>Carbonatos Profundos (DCP)<\/strong>. La zona de alta ley fue interceptada a partir de los <strong>138 metros de profundidad<\/strong>, donde los ge\u00f3logos detectaron incluso la presencia de <strong>oro visible<\/strong> en el testigo de perforaci\u00f3n antes de que las muestras fueran enviadas al laboratorio para su an\u00e1lisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/elfederalmendoza.com.ar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/oro7-1024x507.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elfederalmendoza.com.ar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/oro7-1024x507.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/elfederalmendoza.com.ar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/oro7-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elfederalmendoza.com.ar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/oro7-768x380.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elfederalmendoza.com.ar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/oro7.jpg 1214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ignacio Cuadra, gerente de Exploraci\u00f3n de Minas Argentinas, describi\u00f3 el sector como una verdadera <strong>\u201czona de bonanza\u201d<\/strong>, comparable con algunos de los dep\u00f3sitos aur\u00edferos m\u00e1s prestigiosos del planeta. Los especialistas se\u00f1alaron similitudes geol\u00f3gicas con los famosos dep\u00f3sitos tipo <strong>Carlin de Nevada (Estados Unidos)<\/strong>, referencia mundial para la explotaci\u00f3n de oro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>La magnitud del hallazgo coloca a Gualcamayo en una categor\u00eda reservada para proyectos de \u00e9lite, comparable con distritos mineros de renombre internacional como <strong>Windfall<\/strong>, en Canad\u00e1, o <strong>Fosterville<\/strong>, en Australia, conocidos por sus extraordinarias concentraciones de metales preciosos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M\u00e1s all\u00e1 del impacto geol\u00f3gico, el descubrimiento fortalece las perspectivas del proyecto <strong>Carbonatos Profundos<\/strong>, una iniciativa subterr\u00e1nea que contempla una inversi\u00f3n estimada en <strong>665 millones de d\u00f3lares<\/strong>, la construcci\u00f3n de una planta de oxidaci\u00f3n a presi\u00f3n (<strong>POX<\/strong>) y su incorporaci\u00f3n al <strong>R\u00e9gimen de Incentivo para Grandes Inversiones (RIGI)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Los planes de la compa\u00f1\u00eda proyectan una vida \u00fatil cercana a los <strong>30 a\u00f1os<\/strong>, una producci\u00f3n promedio de <strong>166.000 onzas de oro por a\u00f1o<\/strong> y la generaci\u00f3n de <strong>m\u00e1s de 1.500 puestos de trabajo durante la etapa de construcci\u00f3n<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/elfederalmendoza.com.ar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/gualcamayo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elfederalmendoza.com.ar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/gualcamayo.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/elfederalmendoza.com.ar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/gualcamayo-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elfederalmendoza.com.ar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/gualcamayo-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Uno de los datos que m\u00e1s entusiasma a los inversores es que, pese al resultado obtenido, la empresa sostiene que apenas ha explorado alrededor del <strong>4% de toda la superficie concesionada<\/strong>. Durante 2026 ya se perforaron m\u00e1s de <strong>19.000 metros<\/strong>, y las campa\u00f1as contin\u00faan con el objetivo de determinar la extensi\u00f3n real de esta nueva mineralizaci\u00f3n de alta ley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Para la miner\u00eda argentina, <strong>el hallazgo representa uno de los resultados exploratorios m\u00e1s relevantes de los \u00faltimos a\u00f1os <\/strong>y abre la puerta a una nueva etapa para Gualcamayo, un proyecto que podr\u00eda consolidarse como uno de los principales productores aur\u00edferos del pa\u00eds en las pr\u00f3ximas d\u00e9cadas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minas Argentinas confirm\u00f3 en Gualcamayo la ley de oro m\u00e1s alta registrada en la historia del yacimiento. El hallazgo multiplica por diez los m\u00e1ximos anteriores y ubica al proyecto sanjuanino entre los descubrimientos m\u00e1s destacados de la miner\u00eda mundial. El yacimiento Gualcamayo, ubicado en el departamento J\u00e1chal, San Juan, acaba de registrar un hallazgo que<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/elfederalmendoza.com.ar\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/descubren-una-concentracion-de-oro-sin-precedentes-y-proyectan-una-mina-para-los-proximos-30-anos-muy-cerca-de-la-rioja\/\"> [&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpmdr_menu":1,"wpmdr_menu_extended":{"individualPostRemove":1,"individualPostRemoveDate":1,"individualPostRemoveAuthor":1,"individualPostYoastRemovePublished":1,"individualPostYoastRemoveModified":1},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mza"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/elfederalmendoza.com.ar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/oro6.jpg",1111,617,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/elfederalmendoza.com.ar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/oro6.jpg",1111,617,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/elfederalmendoza.com.ar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/oro6.jpg",1111,617,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/elfederalmendoza.com.ar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/oro6-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/elfederalmendoza.com.ar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/oro6-300x167.jpg",300,167,true],"large":["https:\/\/elfederalmendoza.com.ar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/oro6-1024x569.jpg",640,356,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/elfederalmendoza.com.ar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/oro6.jpg",1111,617,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/elfederalmendoza.com.ar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/oro6.jpg",1111,617,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/elfederalmendoza.com.ar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/oro6.jpg",1111,617,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/elfederalmendoza.com.ar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/oro6-870x570.jpg",870,570,true],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/elfederalmendoza.com.ar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/oro6-600x617.jpg",600,617,true],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/elfederalmendoza.com.ar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/oro6-600x600.jpg",600,600,true],"rpwe-thumbnail":["https:\/\/elfederalmendoza.com.ar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/oro6-45x45.jpg",45,45,true],"advps-thumb-one":["https:\/\/elfederalmendoza.com.ar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/oro6-1111x420.jpg",1111,420,true]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Redacci\u00f3n El Federal","author_link":"https:\/\/elfederalmendoza.com.ar\/index.php\/author\/angelflores\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/elfederalmendoza.com.ar\/index.php\/category\/mza\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Mendoza<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Minas Argentinas confirm\u00f3 en Gualcamayo la ley de oro m\u00e1s alta registrada en la historia del yacimiento. 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