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It is important to create social awareness of the importance of copper mining in the development of Peru.




The Peru is the fifth country in the world producing copper and the second in LatinAmerican,  El Perú es el quinto productor mundial de Cobre y el segundo en Latinoamérica, however almost all the copper´s production is exported because ther isn´t interior consume.

The Copper is one of the main products that the Peru tradicionally exports, and one of the which that generate the bigger quantity of ingresses for the country. In this way, the Copper permits:

  • IMPROVE THE PAY BALANCE

Because the high ingresses that generate its exprotation. During 2002 it has been exported Copper equivalent to US$ 1187 millons, it represents 22% of the total of peruvian tradicional exported products. The Copper is the 2nd. peruvian product that is exported (Source: BCR, Aduanas)

  • GENERATE THOUSANDS OF DIRECT AND INDIRECT EMPLOYMENTS

Agree with current data, the Copper generate 39,000 direct employments and 156,000 indirect employments. (Source: MEM)

  • THE PRODUCTIVE CHAIN

The peruvian mining projects do, aproximately, anual purchases of US$ 1400 millons, 71% of the which are peruvian purchases and 29% are foreign purchases.(Source: MEM)

  • SOCIAL SERVICES

The minig projects allow the development of Social Programs in Education, Health and Production that benefit to colindant areas to their production centers (comunication roads, electric energy, water, phone). Also, because of the pay to the Peruvian State, works like Electric Systems, Roads and Bridges were realized. In this way, until 2000, the minig has contributed with the construction of 440 asphalted roads, 1800 paved roads, 950 gage, 428 km. of fera way, 2 minig ports, 45000 houses, 150 spreading centers, 250 deportive centers, 95 hotels, 50 markets, 62 churches, 65 infantile parks, installation of 50 parabolic antennas and their stations, installation of 1500 hospital beds, 285 doctors and 900 other professionals capacited, investments for the attention of 1200000 people per year, 275000 emergency attentions per year, installation of 2400 classrooms with 90000 favored students, investments in training of 4000 teachers, investement for giving electric energy to 60000 people. (Source: MEM Bulletin: Beneficios de la Tributación Minera a las Comunidades, APOYO)

  • ENGAGED INVESTMENT

The engaged investment for the Copper projects, between  2003 - 2007, is US$ 1,458 (Source MEM – DGM). Like we said, this investment will allow the construction of roads, houses, classrooms, the installation of hospital beds, to give electric energy to people.

The work of Procobre is to create social awareness of the importance of the Copper for the peruvians and show that, if we give agregated value to the Copper here in the Peru, the previously mentioned adventages, will be greater.

The copper is peruvian, so we must give its an special attention. "Consume that the Peru produces".

BCR: Banco Central de Reserva del Perú
MEM: Ministerio de Energía y Minas del Perú
DGM: Dirección General de Minería




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