The 5 provinces, compared
Compare the 5 provinces where we track RIGI projects: how much investment each one concentrates, which taxes and royalties apply and what local-content rules each one has. Each row opens the full province, to invest or to sell to the projects.
This comparison shows where the investment is and what rules each province has. But you do not have to pick one province and go project by project.
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All 5, row by row
⚠ Royalties and local content are not a single scale. Royalties mix mining and hydrocarbon regimes. Local content mixes binding quotas, price preferences and plan targets. That is why each cell says what it is measuring and the detail stays with its source.
All five on a single metric, so they can be compared without scrolling. The full table —with royalties and local-content rules— is below. Royalties are deliberately left out: Neuquén’s are hydrocarbon and San Juan’s are mining, and ranking them together would assert a comparison between two different things.
| Province | RIGI pipeline | Turnover tax | Royalties | Local content: what each province requires |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Río Negro Vaca Muerta's outlet to the sea · export corridor · San Matías Gulf | USD 57,611 M 4 projects | 3% services 3%extraction | 12% +3% on extensions OIL & GAS ROYALTIES | 60 % hard quota · procurement 80 %employment what it is calculated on, and what limits itof the contracting of goods, services and works, direct and indirect (art. 6) · employment: of the workforce, with 2 years of documented residence in the province · An obligation of result: the 60 % has to be PERFORMED by registered Río Negro suppliers, and it also reaches contractors and subcontractors. The local supplier additionally has the right to match the best bid if it does not exceed it by more than 8 % (art. 7). The 80 % workforce figure is set by the local-employment law, not by this one. |
| Neuquén Core of Vaca Muerta · Neuquén Basin · 70% of the country's crude | USD 51,665 M 6 projects | 3.5% services 3%extraction | 12% + bonuses OIL & GAS ROYALTIES | 60 % enforceable preference · procurement what it is calculated on, and what limits itof the total amount contracted in each category, in the calendar year (art. 15) · Only in the categories where there are certified Neuquén suppliers in a position to bid. It is not a quota: the certified supplier gets in if its bid is up to 9 % (tier A) or 6 % (tier B) more expensive, and it must then MATCH the best price; if it does not match, it is discarded (art. 14). |
| San Juan The largest mining RIGI portfolio of the five · gold production today · copper projects towards 2030 | USD 22,828 M 5 projects | 3% services 0.75%extraction | 3% MINING ROYALTIES | 60 % stated target · procurement 80 %employment what it is calculated on, and what limits itof the total annual amount of the project's purchases and contracts, direct and indirect through contractors (art. 9) · employment: of the average annual payroll, both the miner's direct employees and those indirectly employed by its contractors (art. 5) · It is not a quota but the TARGET of a plan the mining company files as a sworn statement. And only a supplier holding a valid RE.PRO.MIN certificate counts, and as of 2026-08-29 the registry is not issuing any: until it opens, the 60 % cannot count anyone. |
| Salta Mining accounts for 2.81% of the provincial product and 62.1% of what it exports (cumulative Jan-Aug 2026) · in 2025 gold contributed more export value than lithium (59.1% against 26.7%) | USD 6,716 M 4 projects | 3.60% services 0.75%extraction | 3% MINING ROYALTIES | 70 % soft preference · procurement 60 %employment what it is calculated on, and what limits itof the total annual amount contracted with all of its suppliers (art. 17) · employment: of its entire payroll, with actual residence in the mining departments and then in the rest of the province (art. 18) · The article says they «shall preferentially contract» and refers to the implementing regulation: it is a soft mandate, not a self-executing quota. What gives it teeth are arts. 19-20, which tie the promotional benefit to complying with it. Only suppliers registered in the Provincial Registry count. |
| Catamarca Mining accounts for 96% of what it exports · in one of the two RIGI files the reported local-content commitment reaches 95% | USD 5,177 M 4 projects | 3.00% to 4.80% services 0.75%extraction | 3% MINING ROYALTIES | 70 % soft quota · procurement what it is calculated on, and what limits itof the «total number of annual contracts» for works, services, goods and supplies (art. 4) · It is the only instrument that reserves a PROVINCIAL quota —the supplier must be domiciled in Catamarca, unlike the RIGI, where «local» means Argentine— but it lives in a RESOLUTION that another resolution can repeal, not in a law. And its own text says «number» of contracts, which read literally is a count of contracts and not an amount: the resolution does not settle it. |
⚠ Royalties do not belong in a single column: 3% is mining and 12% is hydrocarbons, and they are different regimes. That is why each cell states which resource it refers to and the table is not sorted by it.
⚠ Local content is not a comparable percentage either: some provinces set a hard floor on contracting, others a price preference, and in others the rule is a resolution rather than a law. The cell names the instrument and opens the rule that sets it, instead of lining up figures that measure different things.
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