{"id":1135866,"date":"2019-09-01T13:35:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T18:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1000801"},"modified":"2019-09-01T13:35:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T18:35:25","slug":"freeports-cerro-verde-expansion-not-touching-farmland-media-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1135866","title":{"rendered":"Freeport\u2019s Cerro Verde expansion not touching farmland \u2013 media report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After some villagers expressed concern before local authorities, the management team of Freeport-McMoRan\u2019s (NYSE<g class=\"gr_ gr_3 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Style replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"3\" data-gr-id=\"3\">:FCX<\/g>) <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Cerro Verde copper mine (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/freeports-cerro-verde-copper-mine-resumes-normal-operations\/\" >Cerro Verde copper mine<\/a> in Peru said the company is not planning to acquire farmland and other terrains that are in use to expand its operations.<\/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>Neighbours\u2019 associations from the towns of&nbsp; La Joya, Hunter, Tiabaya, Uchumayo, Mollebaya and Yarabamba raised the alarm following the publication of ordinance 541-2014, which was issued by the Ministry of Energy and Mines. In the document, Cerro Verde\u2019s expansion project, which aims at tripling the concentrator\u2019s capacity from its current output of 409,500 tonnes per day, was deemed of national interest, which means that the miner has permission to purchase the terrains that would allow it to complete the job. However, such pieces of land must be considered wasteland and third parties\u2019 rights must be respected.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, <em>La Rep\u00fablica<\/em> newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/larepublica.pe\/sociedad\/2019\/09\/01\/arequipa-cerro-verde-solo-comprara-terrenos-eriazos-y-sin-dueno-para-expansion\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"reports (opens in a new tab)\">reports<\/a> that, based on documentation from the Regional Government Planning Office, the claims that Cerro Verde is eyeing overlap with those under the oversight of some neighbours\u2019 associations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the news outlet, the mayor of Tiabaya, Miguel Cuadros Paredes, forwarded the resolution to his legal team and sent a notification to the miner prompting it to provide details on its plans. Similarly, the mayor of Mollebaya, Jaime Tueros, will ask Cerro Verde to join a meeting with seven other local authorities to discuss the issue.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cerro Verde is an open-pit operation that produces one billion pounds of copper per year. It is located approximately 30 <g class=\"gr_ gr_5 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear ContextualSpelling multiReplace\" id=\"5\" data-gr-id=\"5\">kilometres<\/g> southwest of the city of Arequipa and it is controlled by Freeport-McMoRan with a 53.6% stake, Sumitomo Metal (21%) and Buenaventura (19.6%).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/freeports-cerro-verde-expansion-not-touching-farmland-media-report\/\">Freeport\u2019s Cerro Verde expansion not touching farmland &#8211; media report<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/\">MINING.COM<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A regional ordinance states that the Freeport-McMoRan operation would only expand onto wasteland.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/freeports-cerro-verde-expansion-not-touching-farmland-media-report\/\">Freeport&rsquo;s Cerro Verde expansion not touching farmland &ndash; media report<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/\">MINING.COM<\/a>.<\/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":"default","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":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","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-opacity":"","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-opacity":"","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-opacity":"","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-opacity":"","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-opacity":"","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-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2648,369,2640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1135866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-careers","category-miningcom","category-top-companies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=1135866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1135867,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135866\/revisions\/1135867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1135866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1135866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1135866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}