Keywords Territorial Development, Sustainable Balanced Scorecard (SBSC), Smart territories, Trust building, Multi-stakeholder governance coalitions, Digital twins, Social-innovation practice, Shared Value, Smart Mining Territories, AI, Data-driven Development. Introduction Peru, Chile and Brazil are among Latin America’s most mining-intensive economies. Mining is a strategic driver of growth, exports, and public revenues, shaping national development and mining expectations This central role is underscored by the ICMM´s Mining Contribution Index (MCI), which highlights the sector’s substantial contribution across all three countries (ICMM 2025). Focusing on Peru, mining has improved development outcomes (Gallegos and Vásquez, 2023). According to INEI, both extreme and non-extreme poverty declined between 2004 and 2024. The HDI showed an upward trend from 1990 to 2023, with a temporary dip during the COVID-19 pandemic. Income inequality also fell between 1997 and 2023, experiencing only a brief setback during the pandemic years. Nevertheless, despite the achievements of the mining sector in Peru and in other mining regions worldwide, there remain deep trust deficits between mining companies, governments, and local communities, social acceptance has become an important bottleneck, and above all, weak institutions, limited state presence in mining territories, corruption, lack of transparency, absence of long-term territorial development visions, and persistent stakeholder conflicts are structural barriers that undermine trust and block progress. In light of this context, a comprehensive proposal becomes necessary within the framework of a shared value creation strategy, with a strong public policy component in the mining sector. This study aims to develop and illustrate a policy-oriented framework—the Territorial Development and Sustainable Balanced Scorecard (TD-SBSC)—that integrates technology, social innovation, and multi-stakeholder governance to help rebuild trust and align mining with long-term sustainable territorial development in mining territories. This paper tackles a key challenge for mining: building trust and social acceptance. It presents an approach integrating territorial governance, social innovation, and advanced technologies to align mining with sustainable development. By offering evidence-based, scalable solutions, it contributes to the WMC 2026 themes of Trust, Transformation, and Technology, guiding governments, industry, and communities toward stronger collaboration and long-term social legitimacy. The document brings together and integrates several dispersed theoretical strands that underpin the proposal for rebuilding thrust through sustainable territorial development. The empirical section presents eight successful case studies from mining companies operating in Peru, Chile, and Brazil, as well as two from public policy initiatives in Peru and Chile. These cases were selected based on their high impact in terms of territorial development, social innovation, and data-driven territorial development, and were analyzed to determine if they encompass the three elements of the current proposal. 131
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