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Peru is one of the worlds leading mining countries; a top five producer of many of the world’s precious and leading base metals. Numerous economic resource discoveries have been made throughout the country and much of the land remains largely underexplored.
The Peruvian Government estimates at least 6500 small scale independent miners are currently producing approximately 3,000 tons per day of high grade gold ore from near surface epithermal vein systems in Northern Peru. Some estimates have placed these numbers much higher. As there are no significant ore processing facilities in the region, many miners are currently trucking 400 - 600 tons a day of this ore roughly 1400 kilometers for processing, at a high capital and opportunity cost.
There are significant prospective resources in Northern Peru, however, foreign prospectors have had mixed success working with the locals. The most notable difficulty was the high potential gold deposit at Tambo Grande, which resulted in a bitter dispute between the mining company that ‘owned’ the rights to the land and the locals who resisted their efforts to develop it. The traditional staking model often pushes the locals away from resources that have helped support their livelihood. The local community can be resistant to large scale mining in order to preserve the small scale mining industry, making a mineral processing plant an ideal fit.
The Peruvian project plans have been developed over the past 18 months with critical support provided by:
- Office of the Governor of the Province of Piura
- Head of Provincial Department of Energy and Mineral Resources
- Director General and key advisors to the Federal Minister of Mines and Energy and to the Federal Minister of Defense
Local, Provincial and Federal Governments support a modern, large, efficient and environmentally friendly ore processing facility in the region that is tailored to service the small scale mining industry.
