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Quiulacocha liabilities and Excelsior are two ancient and inactive deposits of unit operations Minera Cerro de Pasco. Quiulacocha, which garnered the tailings from the concentrator Paragsha has accumulated approximately 78.8 million tons of mine tailings with metal contents of copper, lead, silver, in an approximate area of ??115 hectares.

Meanwhile, Excelsior, he received the cuttings from the Open Pit Mining Raul Rojas from 1956 to 2000, has accumulated about 56 million tonnes of waste rock mining that have been deposited at altitudes ranging between 45 and 55 meters with steep slope 33 ° and 36 °, and occupies an area of ??94 hectares.

Environmental liabilities are located at 1.2 kilometers from the city of Cerro de Pasco on Parcel “K” of 293.5 hectares in the district of Simon Bolivar in the region of Pasco. The transfer of the project is implemented under the provisions of various rules governing the Waste Utilization Project Closure or Remediation.

The use of these liabilities will save the state $ 55 million, of which 22 million is the cost of remediation and $ 23 million to the cost of operation in perpetuity of the neutralization plant (1.4 million annually at a rate six percent). In addition, the project will generate rental income, initial contribution and / or recurring transfers for basic infrastructure projects, health, education, etc..nAlso capacity building and utilization of services and local labor, income from royalties and / or mining royalties, to be defined.

The Contractor shall obtain the Social Agreement with the communities living in the catchment area as a requirement to continue the project agreement shall include the relocation of villages and Quiulacocha Champamarca.

Will be three stages comprising the project Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), implementation and operation. In each setting out the obligations, terms and guarantees. The acquirer is required to establish a private trust whose funds will be used for investment in transport infrastructure projects, electrification, sanitation, health, education and other works, projects and expenses related to sustainable development and capacity building for the benefit of the populations area of ??influence.

Quantification of investments and the determination of income and costs, which will define the economic viability of the project based on which the initial contribution will be calculated and the reference value of the auction will be conducted by a team of expert advisors matter. This team will evaluate the metal content of waste materials, metal prices, available technologies and existing market conditions and market projections.

Nationally, mining creates jobs directly to 127.230 people, of whom 55.1 percent are from the region where the mine is located,” he said. According to a report from the Mining Promotion MEM until 23 February this year, the An cash region received 45 million soles 935,003.97 mining royalties and mining royalties 385,047.54 soles.

People working in this activity are 7.384 and 52.44 percent comes from the area, which also houses the University Nacional Santiago Antunez de Mayolo which is based in Huarache, which is mining engineers. Tana region received in the same period the sum of 25 million soles 580,007.02 by way of mining royalties and four million in mining royalties 213,361.59.

A total of 1.792 people who work in mining production centers located in this region, which is a major producer of copper. Moquegua received three million suns mining canon 363,155.14 and 408,997.08 five million soles for mining royalties. In this area, also linked to the production of copper are 5.061 people work directly in mining.

While the National University of Monique has a Mining Engineering School which trains professionals who then work in mining projects in this department. Puno is one of the regions where mining has a long tradition in the first two months of the year, the mining royalties amounted to 820,175.41 soles and in addition, the mining royalty income earned him five million suns 277.339.71.

At the University National Del Altiplano, there are three schools (metallurgical engineering, geological engineering and mining engineering) who are professionals involved in mining.

Finally, the sum of 922,342.90 soles is the amount by mining royalties, will be sent to the regional government of Arequipa, also a transfer of four million suns 045,331.96 for mining royalties. In this region, mining is an important part of its economy, with 13.693 people working directly on it.

As the country’s leading producer of silver in the world production of copper amounted to 154.317 tons (4.961 million ounces), while copper was 22 million tons 751.635, from the Republican era. This information was first provided by the Metallogenic Map of Gold in Peru 2010, has been prepared by the Geological Mining and Metallurgical Institute (Ingemmet), decentralized public entity of the MEM.

Formed the team that was responsible for the development of the Memory of the outstanding geologists that map: Jorge Acosta, Jorge Quispe, Raymond Rivera, Michael Valencia, Humberto Chirif, Dina Huanacuni, Italo Rodriguez Villarreal Eder, Deysi Paico and Alexander Santisteban.

They say that more or less detailed knowledge of the historical production of these metals is very useful to determine how it is distributed on the fringes metallogenetic.

Thus, it may offer new and valuable insights to guide investment to large mining projects, said the MEM. In the case of gold, metallogenetic map authors could establish that the increased production comes from the band called XXI, Miocene, where they have won more than 1,400 tons (45 million ounces).

This band is widely distributed in the domain of the Cenozoic volcanic Cordillera Occidental. In the north, is controlled by faults that are changing from NW-SE to WNW-ESE to approximate the Cajamarca deflection, then switch to NS approaching the deflection Huancabamba.

Among the deposits are hosted in volcanic rocks, are Quiruvilca, Pierina, Tamboraque and Santa Rita. Farther north are deposits of Yanacocha, Tantahuatay and ditch. Some deposits are associated with volcanic centers, as is the case of Alto Chicama, Quiruvilca, Alto Dorado, Matala, Macon, High Cross, Ticas.

The other part of the precious metal production comes from the bands I and II of the Paleozoic (Cordillera Oriental and Pataz Batholith – Buldibuyo, respectively) and the IX All-Cretaceous (Nazca-Ocoña: batholith of the Coast), according researchers have produced over 1,200 tons of gold (more than 38 million ounces).

Like gold, silver production increased in the Gaza XXI, but is also present in the strip XX Miocene, where both exceed 110 000 tons (3.500 million ounces). Another part of the production is taken from the Strip XVII of Eocene-Miocene, which, they say, has produced about 30,000 tons (1.000 million ounces).

On the production of copper say that mostly it comes from the XIII All the Paleocene-Eocene, represented by Toquepala, Cuajone, Cerro Verde, exceeding 13 million tons. All XX Miocene, where the Antamina deposit has produced over three million tons. Another six million tonnes of metal have been on the fringes II, XV and XXI where the Cobriza mines, and Cerro de Pasco Tintaya, respectively.