Pending Cultural Challenges In Mining

In my constant conversations with big mining companies and mining suppliers, I tend to find evidence that we still have large cultural barriers to change and transform. Many of these barriers are weakening our permanent efforts to continually push modernization in this industry.

Here is one very concrete example: we still have buyers that prefer foreign services to national ones, despite the efforts of mining companies, governments, and supply associations to strengthen national services (which in other respects, due to their work and incorporation into countries like Chile, have great knowledge of real industrial problems and are a vital source of innovation).

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