{"id":1131879,"date":"2019-08-10T15:39:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T20:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=998996"},"modified":"2019-08-10T15:39:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T20:39:42","slug":"peruvian-government-suspends-southerns-construction-licence-for-tia-maria-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1131879","title":{"rendered":"Peruvian government suspends Southern\u2019s construction licence for T\u00eda Mar\u00eda project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Peruvian Ministry of Energy and Mines temporarily suspended a construction <g class=\"gr_ gr_3 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear ContextualSpelling multiReplace\" id=\"3\" data-gr-id=\"3\">licence<\/g> given to Southern Copper (NYSE<g class=\"gr_ gr_4 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Style replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"4\" data-gr-id=\"4\">:SCCO<\/g>)\u00a0for its $1.4-billion T\u00eda Mar\u00eda copper project, located in the southern Islay province of the Arequipa region.<\/p>\n<div class='d-flex justify-content-center'>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0'><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0');});<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In an official communiqu\u00e9, the ministry\u2019s Mining Council explained that the decision is based on a request made on July 19, 2019, by the regional government of Arequipa, the Association of Workers of the Chucarapi Pampa Blanca Sugar Processing Plant, and the Board of the Valle del Tambo residents, to review Southern\u2019s project. Such a review has to be carried out within the next four months.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Peru-suspends-Southern-Coppers-licence.pdf\">Peru-suspends-Southern-Coppers-licence<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Peru-suspends-Southern-Coppers-licence.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n<p>According to the petitioners, a review is needed because the T\u00eda Mar\u00eda site sits on a protected area known as the \u2018Lomas de Cachendo\u2019 ecosystem, where extractive operations should be forbidden.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with local TV station Canal N, the minister of energy and mines, Francisco Ismodes, said that the suspension buys his office some time to be able to sit down with regional authorities and other stakeholders to discuss joint mechanisms that allow mining projects to go forward while respecting the environment.<\/p>\n<p>Since the second week of July, residents of Valle del Tambo, the closest town to the T\u00eda Mar\u00eda site, have been protesting and carrying out a general strike as a way to express their rejection of the project. They have been joined by a number of regional unions.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Southern Copper, a subsidiary of Grupo Mexico, experiences a setback related to T\u00eda Mar\u00eda.<\/p>\n<p>The construction plan has been <a href=\"https:\/\/mining.com\/web\/southern-copper-says-legal-dispute-perus-tia-maria-resolved\/\">halted and readjusted twice<\/a> since it first came up, around 2010, due to fierce opposition by locals who are worried about its environmental impacts and the possibility of an open-pit mine damaging crops.<\/p>\n<p>Southern executives, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/tia-maria-copper-project-gaining-legitimacy-exec\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"are hopeful (opens in a new tab)\">are hopeful<\/a> that the project will be developed by 2020. Once completed, the mine is expected to produce 120,000 tonnes of copper a year for an estimated 20-year lifespan.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a request to review the project, the Ministry of Mines temporarily suspended the licence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1131879"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1132066,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131879\/revisions\/1132066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1131879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1131879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1131879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}