Peru’s Minsur to start work on $500 million copper mine in October

Mina Justa. Credit: The Copper Mark

Peruvian miner Minsur is set to kick off blasting work in October for an access tunnel to an underground copper mine expected to cost some $500 million, an executive at the firm said on Wednesday, part of the Justa mine expansion plan.

Juan Luis Kruger, CEO of Minsur, said in a forum with mining executives in Arequipa, in Peru’s south, that the underground mine is targeted to become the nation’s second-largest.

Peru is the world’s third-largest copper producer.

(By Marco Aquino; Editing by Sarah Morland)

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