José Ojeda publishes opinion column on underground mining

Minería Chilena highlights SMI Chile’s integrated water management workshop

Oct 21, 2026

The specialist publication has published an extensive article on the workshop held to validate the water management tool developed by an SMI Chile team, where guest speakers at the event included COPSA President Gloria Hutt and former Director of the General Water...

Gloria Hutt and Rodrigo Sanhueza speak at SMI Chile water management workshop

Oct 20, 2026

Together with Nathalie Jamett, Senior Researcher at SMI Chile, the former minister and president of the Association of Public Infrastructure Concessionaires of Chile (COPSA), and the former Director of the General Water Directorate (DGA), discussed the outlook for...

Nigel Wight presents research on the El Cobre tragedy at Tailings 2026 Congress

Oct 2, 2026

At Chile’s most important conference on tailings, the SMI Chile researcher presented findings on what can be learned from the memory of the disaster that struck the El Soldado mine in 1965. “What Remains: Disaster Risk and Emergency Preparedness in a Chilean Mining...

SMI Chile and UDD’s C+ Centre present research advances from the Match Fund project

Oct 1, 2026

As part of the joint work between SMI Chile and the Centre for Research in Technologies for Society (C+) at UDD’s Faculty of Engineering, researchers Diego Ocampo and Javiera de la Fuente presented their respective research findings at a seminar entitled “Snow, salt...