Ignacio Torresi Executive Vice President, Latin America SEEQUENT
What have been the recent developments from Seequent?
Our biggest highlight is the introduction of Seequent Evo, a complete platform as a service with a full ecosystem including a developer portal, APIs, and a family of web applications that are interconnected to our desktop applications.
One of the most important aspects of Evo is addressing the scattered and siloed nature of different types of files and data sources in mining. Everything that is put into Evo gets standardized in a way that is completely transversal and can be used by our applications, third-party applications, or partner applications. Additionally, Evo’s codebase is open source, with developer toolkits, open APIs, and reference implementations. This allows the development community to use it to develop their applications. How do you see data-sharing applications applying across mining, and is collaboration the way forward?
We are witnessing increased collaboration in the mining industry, exemplified by significant joint ventures such as Andina and Los Bronces, as well as Lundin and BHP in Argentina with Filo del Sol. We exist in a world characterized by the proliferation of mining technology and the heightened strategic importance of mining, driven by critical minerals, rare earth elements, and ongoing geopolitical shifts, all while we strive to decarbonize and electrify. Discovering new deposits that can be developed by a single organization is becoming increasingly challenging, making collaboration essential. This collaboration needs to encompass mining companies, technology providers, OEMs, and governments to accelerate regulation and offer visibility to various mining stakeholders regarding the potential of mining projects. What is next for Seequent in 2025?
We are actively building regional teams that will be 100% focused on selling and supporting our technology. Finally, we will leverage these strategic pillars to reinvest part of that into Evo, exposing our most trusted and long-standing mining clients to this platform to gather feedback for continued development.
Cristóbal Undurraga Co-Founder and CEO CEIBO
How have the last 12 months been for Ceibo?
We announced last year a partnership with Glencore at Lomas Bayas, which has presented us with a unique opportunity to validate what we have been doing and apply it at scale on an asset. More recently, Ceibo’s technology has been running for three months at our demonstration plant in San Geronimo. We have now harvested our first cathodes from the plant, a great technical, commercial, and engineering milestone for our team. In what way does Ceibo’s technology open up access to ore bodies that conventional mining could not process?
There are many types of ore bodies currently not being processed as it is not economically or technologically viable, which is where Ceibo can help. Our technology enables these ores to be extracted, and thus existing assets do not need to be shut down. Being able to leach sulfides that are below oxides, especially those that are deeper, presents enormous value to society and mining companies. What has been your experience navigating Chile’s regulatory process as a technology company?
Different regulations have hindered our capacity as a company to deliver more copper. From an innovation perspective, it is hard to ask a potential partner to take a risk on a technology if they have to revisit their permits. We are pushing to create a sandbox that is protected and insulated from the larger permitting process so that technology companies can run tests within pre-approved boundaries. What are your plans for the future?
In 2026, we hope to have our first large commercial projects under construction. We are working with many different companies at various stages for testing and development, and we hope to see these opportunities become term sheets and then contracts in the next 12 months.