http://www.gogeometry.com/mining/peru_c ... aveco.htmlPeru Seen Consolidating World Number Two Position In Copper
April 9, 2010
A number of major mining companies have projects underway and observers are confident that if the political situation remains under control, then Peru could consolidate its second place in global output.
SANTIAGO -(Dow Jones)- Peru has a long way to go before catching world leader Chile in copper production, even as production is set to increase sharply in Peru in the next few years.
A number of major mining companies have projects underway and observers are confident that if the political situation remains under control, then Peru could consolidate its second place in global output.
"I think that things are looking good. Peru has become the second biggest copper producer in the world and with the new mines this position will be consolidated," Southern Copper Corp. (SCCO) Chief Executive Oscar Gonzalez Rocha said on the sidelines of the CRU/Cesco copper conference.
Peru had output of about 1.3 million tons of copper last year, while Chile produced 5.4 million tons.
Southern Copper, which expects to produce about 350,000 tons of copper this year in Peru, has a project underway to add another 120,000 a year from the Tia Maria deposit. Expansions at the Toquepala and Cuajone mines could add significantly more tons, the company has said.
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Concernant ce projet minier à Tia Maria , les autorités ont mis en stand bye le projet pendant 90 jours pour évaluer les impacts environnementaux (présence de comunautés agricoles). La question est bien evidemment, une fois de plus, de la ressource en eau et de la pollution de l' eau.
(Méme probléme que pour la mine d' Or de Pascua‐Lama à la frontiére entre le Chili et l' Argentine, voir ce post : viewtopic.php?p=280274#p280274 ) .
C' est un projet de mine à ciel ouvert (open pit) qui va demander un investissement de 949 millions de $ d' ici 2016.
http://www.peruviantimes.com/perus-tia- ... rns/225836Peru’s Tia Maria copper mine on hold to assess environmental and regional concerns
April 22, 2010 by Andean Air Mail & PERUVIAN TIMES
The Tia Maria copper project in southern Arequipa has been put on hold for 90 days, while a government-appointed technical commission evaluates the environmental impact study and the concerns of the farming communities in the area.
The decision, one of several points agreed on after six hours of negotiations by government and regional authorities together with Southern Copper representatives, effectively ended a week-long highway blockade on the South Pan American Highway between the city of Arequipa and Islay. Both police and protesters worked together Tuesday night to clear the boulders and rocks from the highway.
The Tia Maria project, operated by Grupo Mexico’s Southern Copper, is an open pit mine being developed in the arid mountains above the Tambo Valley in Islay province. It will require an investment of $949 million by 2016. Scheduled to start production next year, it will produce 120,000 tons of copper oxides per year in the first stage, and later to produce copper sulfates.
The concerns of Tambo Valley farmers is that the mine will not only contaminate the water and valley soil but also divert the amount of water available to the valley. Late last year, the Arequipa Regional Council declared an emergency in the water supply to the valley, a productive area of some 10,000 hectares that includes agroindustrial rice and sugar cane plantations as well as smaller crops of olives and hot peppers.
In September 2009, in a referendum in the surrounding districts, over 90% voted against the mining project.
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