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The dissolution of state ownership over mines and the current publicization of mineral wealth in rerum natura: The collapse of traditional theses

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No. 103 (2025): 2nd Semester
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5249.2025.82455
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This contribution offers a synthesis of the traditional theories on the legal nature of mines that have dominated Chilean legal doctrine, their potential decline, and the need for a renewed conceptual explanation following the enactment of the 1980 Constitution and the mining legal regime that emerged thereafter. According to the author, this regulatory activity amounted to the publicization of mines, intended to establish administrative functions and thereby enable private individuals to freely access mineral wealth. Finally, the article discusses recent developments in Chilean scholarship, while engaging with contemporary Spanish doctrinal approaches on the legal nature of minerals.

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State domain over mines , publicatio , Mine ownership regime , Public mineral assets
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Vergara Blanco , A. (2025). The dissolution of state ownership over mines and the current publicization of mineral wealth in rerum natura: The collapse of traditional theses: A historical-dogmatic analysis of Article 19, No. 24, sixth paragraph of the Constitution. Revista De Derecho Público, (103), 23–56. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5249.2025.82455
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