Salta ratified first, and its Gazette publishes the annex that Catamarca’s does not: the 50/50 split is there in writing

The new fact is not the split — we already knew that from the press — but where it was written down. Catamarca ratified the Diablillos agreement without publishing its Single Annex, and Salta published its own in full: the same fact that in one province was a journalistic account is, in the other, a legible act of State. For an investor that matters more than the anecdote, because it means the tax rules of the disputed strip can be verified without relying on a third party’s reading. It also confirms the real sequence of the file: Salta ratified on 18-12-2025 and Catamarca on 14-05-2026, five months later. The operational gap it opens is the same one as before and is now better grounded: two tax administrations will validate the same extracted tonne under a half-and-half split, and the agreement divides the revenue without setting the measurement method that produces it. thesis