| Cerro Verde Project |
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Cerro Verde |
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Peru
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Arequipa |
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PRODUCTION
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Latitude / Longitude |
16 S 30 / 71 W 41 |
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| Risk and valuation analysis of the Cerro Verde Project |
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| Title(s) of the Cerro Verde Project |
 | Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc.
Interest: 53.56% |
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 | Buenaventura
Interest: 19.5% |
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| Location of the Cerro Verde Project |
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Cerro Verde mine is located 20 miles southwest of Arequipa, Peru, the country’s second largest city.
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| History of the Cerro Verde Project |
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Spaniards mined high-grade copper oxide ore from Cerro Verde and shipped it to Wales in the mid-1800s. Anaconda owned the property from 1916 until 1970, when the mine was acquired by the state. The government mined Cerro Verde’s oxide ores and built more...
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| Geology of the Cerro Verde Project |
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The predominant oxide copper minerals are brochanite, chrysocolla, malachite and copper “pitch.” Chalcocite and covellite are the most important secondary copper sulfide minerals. Chalcopyrite and molybdenite are the dominant primary sulfides.
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Data last updated on : 12/31/2007
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