Pb and Zn in Peru: Supply Trend and Resource Amounts

Jorge Acosta Ale; Alexander Santisteban; Dina Huanacuni; Seok-Jun Yang; Chul-Ho Heo

doi:10.9719/EEG.2016.49.2.135

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Econ. Environ. Geol. 2016; 49(2): 135-145

Published online April 30, 2016

https://doi.org/10.9719/EEG.2016.49.2.135

Pb and Zn in Peru: Supply Trend and Resource Amounts

Jorge Acosta Ale¹, Alexander Santisteban¹, Dina Huanacuni¹, Seok-Jun Yang² and Chul-Ho Heo^3*

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¹Dirección De Recursos Minerales Y Energéticos, Instituto Geológico Minero y Metalúrgico, Peru
²Convergence Research Center for Development of Mineral Resources, Daejeon 34132, Korea
³Mineral Resources Department, Mineral Resources Research Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Daejeon 34132, Korea
⁴Department of Mineral and Groundwater Resources, University of Science and Technology(UST), Daejeon 34113, Korea

Correspondence to : chheo@kigam.re.kr

Received: February 26, 2016; Accepted: March 18, 2016

Abstract

Until 2014, 14 million tonnes of Pb (metal based) and 41 million tonnes of Zn (metal based) were produced in Peru. Representative two Pb-Zn metallogenic belts were known in Peru. They are lower Cretaceous-Paleocene VMS Cu-Zn-Au metallogenic belt and Miocene epithermal, skarn, replacement & polymetallic vein metallogenic belt. If four new mining projects were launched and additional three mining projects were prepared until 2017, it seems possible to produce 0.34 million tonnes of Pb and 1.5 million tonnes of Zn additionally. In Pb-Zn metallogenic belt in Peru, potential Zn amounts range from 9 to 6000 million tonnes with 0.1 to 14% Zn and potential Pb amounts range from 5 to 2800 million tonnes with 0.04 to 5.3% Pb.

Keywords Pb, Zn, Peru