This paper examines how these mining projects affect pre-existing territorial dynamics and how they in turn affect the ways in which the projects are contested. I suggest that there is a link between territorial dynamics, mining conflicts and current forms of social organising. I am not so much interested in how the mining projects induce social conflict as much as how they transform territorial dynamics. In addition, I consider the various views, understandings and meanings of both nature and the nature-society relationships that lie at the heart of territorial dynamics and, in one way or another, have contributed to a layering of conflicts in the Cordillera del Cóndor.