espanolEste articulo aborda el desastre ambiental provocado en la mina Veladero, que explota la canadiense Barrick Gold, como implosion del nucleo duro del modelo de la megamineria metalifera en Argentina, que ha tenido como «religion y culto» a la cordillerana provincia de San Juan. Se analiza aqui la narrativa promesante que sostienen los discursos dominantes, aquellos que conforman un dispositivo de control de mundos posibles para la generacion de creencias, ideas, valores. Desde una perspectiva sociodiscursiva y biopolitica, focaliza en algunas macro estrategias de legitimacion y rituales de consagracion, con especial enfasis en aquellos que tributan a consolidar el caracter absoluto y refractario de la «mineria responsable», asi como a mantener la vigencia de la poderosa invencion global del «desarrollo sustentable» en tanto verdad dogmatica, misterio de fe. EnglishThis article discusses the environmental disaster caused in the Veladero mine, which operates Canada’s Barrick Gold, as implosion of the core model of the mega-metalliferous mining in Argentina, which has had the “religion and belief” to the mountainous province of San Juan. We analyze here the narrative of promises holding dominant discourses, those who make a control of possible worlds for the generation of beliefs, ideas, values. From a social discourse approaches, on the horizons of biopolitics, this article focuses on some macro strategies of legitimation and consecration rituals, with special emphasis on those who are taxed to consolidate the absolute refractory character of “responsible mining” as well as to maintain the validity of the powerful invention overall “sustainable development” as dogmatic truth, the mystery of faith.