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Peru Zinc Production

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Peru zinc production. Zinc production in peru dates back to the pre colonial era long before the spanish arrived and began mining wealth from the central andes. Despite a large number of players perus zinc sector is dominated by the antamina operation which produced 409kt in 2018 and nexa resources cerro lindo and el porvenir operations. La oroya perus first modern zinc refinery started.

The bongara zinc mine project was in production from 2007 to 2008 but shut down due to the global financial crisis and concurrent decrease in the zinc price. Efforts have paid off and in recent years peru has been one of the worlds largest producers of zinc producing 1520000 metric tons of the metal in 2010 as per mbendi information services. Actually perus main economic activity is mining of not only zinc but also gold tin lead silver and copper.

Zinc ones key assets are the past producing bongara zinc mine project and charlotte bongara zinc project in peru. Past production included 20 zinc grades and recoveries over 90 from surface and near surface non sulfide mineralization. In the year 2013 peru exported minerals worth 412 billion.

Peru is currently ranking third in world zinc reserves and second in global zinc production according to information from investing news. Perus largest zinc producers are the antamina copper and zinc mine in ancash milpos cerro lindo mine in ica and volcans chungar mine in pasco. In 2020 despite a strong production in the first two months zinc.

In 2006 perus economy benefited from high prices for mineral commodities. Perus zinc mine production amounted to 14 million metric tons in 2019 down from 147 million tons in the previous two years. Peru is the worlds second largest producer of zinc.

Antamina Antamina

Antamina Source : www.teck.com

Zinc Zinc

Zinc Source : www.commoditiescontrol.com