Mining in Latin America, instability, and financial dependence
Abstract
This chapter aims to show the importance of Latin America in global mining production and how the most powerful economic units in this sector, the large mining companies, exhibit traits of financialized companies. Thus, the work teaches us an essential part of the behavior of the capital owners involved in mining, discussing the behavior of the most important shareholders of these companies: institutional investors seeking high profits from production processes and/or rents obtained through their operations in financial markets.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Mining and Resource Management
Housing
Finance
and Neoliberalism
Extractivism and Socioeconomic Issues
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Routledge eBooks
- Pages
- 33–44
- Publication date
- 11 February 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter