The project miner San Gabriel (Moquegua) will begin operations in July or August of this year, reported the president of Compañía de Minas Buenaventura, Roque Benavides.
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In statements to the Institute of Mining Engineers of Peru (IIMP), he stated that the first production will be ready in the third quarter of this year, for which he noted that “we are working very intensely.”
“This is going to be an underground mine and I am sure that San Gabriel will give us mineral for many more years,” he said and highlighted the work carried out on infrastructure that has been carried out around this mine.
Likewise, Roque Benavies revealed that the planned production is between 150,000 and 160,000 ounces of gold per year, which is why they will use the port of Matarani to transport the mineral.
WORK IN PROGRESS
On the other hand, he reported that they are working on the Trapiche project (Apurímac) which will be focused on copper extraction and will require an investment of more than US$2,000 million.
“We have already started working on the Trapiche project that is in the Antabamba area in Apurímac. Apu: Cerro, Rímac: talkative, let’s not forget Quechua. That hill, Apurímac, is speaking to us and telling us that it wants us to value all its mining production. “We are going to move forward with Trapiche, which is a copper project,” he assured. Roque Benavides.
The Buenaventura executive also referred to the progress of the Yumpag project in 2025, which is presented as the continuity of the Uchucchacua field, located in the province of Oyón, in Lima.
“Yumpag is nothing other than the continuation of the Uchucchacua deposit, located between Lima and Cerro de Pasco. Geology does not respect that political division that we make of the departments and regions, and it teaches us a lot about how the continuity of mineralization It can go from one department to another,” he said.
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