“…Research on mining community conflicts is often biased towards community-level perspectives (e.g. Hilson and Yakovleva, 2007;Holden et al, 2011;Kemp et al, 2011;Yakovleva and Vazquez-Brust, 2012) whereas only a reduced number of studies also document management perspectives on conflicts exposing the arguments of contending parties (Bebbington and Bury, 2009;Garvin et al, 2009) or seeking to discover reporting gaps between disclosure and performance (Adams, 2004 Critical studies on the current mining model in Argentina focus on environmental, economic and ethical concerns, referring to extractivism as a 'loot', emphasising the resistance of local grassroots movements with thick descriptions of the socio-environmental conflicts and discourse analyses (Galafassi, 2008;Robledo and Lumerman, 2009;Rodríguez Pardo, 2009;Solanas, 2007;Svampa and Antonelli, 2009;Walter, 2008). Rather than focussing on mining-related disputes, others stress the positive contributions of mining to economies and society (Jordán et al, 2004;; Secretaría de Minería de la Nación, 2012).…”