The epistemological bases of the various extractivisms, especially the mining, are traced from the invention of America as a looting and extension area of Europe, on which domination / conquest had as its ultimate end to lower and expropriate the subjectivity and materiality of the villages in Abya Yala. American nature was the representation on which was created the myth of abundance that remain intact today, as a configurator and computer of the profound ecological inequality in the modern / colonial world system of nature.