{"id":706951,"date":"2018-05-20T16:27:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T16:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=706951"},"modified":"2018-05-20T16:27:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T16:27:46","slug":"tia-maria-copper-project-gaining-legitimacy-exec-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=706951","title":{"rendered":"T\u00eda Mar\u00eda copper project gaining legitimacy: exec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/tia-maria-copper-project-gaining-legitimacy-exec\/\">Valentina Ruiz Leotaud<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>Southern Copper&#8217;s Manager of Technical Services, Carlos Aranda, said this week that the $1.4 billion T\u00eda Mar\u00eda copper project, located in the southern Peruvian region of Arequipa, is gaining legitimacy amongst the population.<\/p>\n<p>In a conference held before Peru&#8217;s Mining Engineers Institute, Aranda said that the company, a subsidiary of Grupo M\u00e9xico, has been able to knock down previous resistance from local communities. <\/p>\n<p>The executive said that people living in villages adjacent to the mine have seen how the province of Islay can benefit from the miner&#8217;s social responsibility projects and, therefore, are now in favour of the plan. The Arizona-based firm financed pre-investment and investment studies for the construction of two hospitals and a clean water plant in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The T\u00eda Mar\u00eda plan, however, has been <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/web\/southern-copper-says-legal-dispute-perus-tia-maria-resolved\/\" rel=\"noopener\">halted and readjusted twice<\/a> since it first came up, around 2010, due to fierce opposition by locals who were worried about its environmental impacts and the possibility of an open-pit mine damaging crops.<\/p>\n<p>Even though Aranda said that people are more willing to support T\u00eda Mar\u00eda now, according to <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/larepublica.pe\/politica\/1245122-opositores-tia-maria-divididos\" rel=\"noopener\">La Rep\u00fablica<\/a><\/em> newspaper, activists argue that his words have no base in reality. They say that the Tambo Valley \u201cis not for sale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the representative for the world&#8217;s fifth largest producer of the red metal in terms of output said that, when it comes to moving forward the project, the company does not want to engage with activists but with the residents themselves to avoid miscommunication problems.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Aranda added that Southern Copper (NYSE:SCCO) expects T\u00eda Mar\u00eda to receive its construction permit this year so that it can be up and running by 2020. The mine <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/southern-copper-resume-tia-maria-project-peru-permit-imminent\/\" rel=\"noopener\">is forecast<\/a> to produce 120,000 tonnes of copper a year for an estimated 20-year lifespan.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/tia-maria-copper-project-gaining-legitimacy-exec\/\">T\u00eda Mar\u00eda copper project gaining legitimacy: exec<\/a> appeared first on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/\">MINING.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/tia-maria-copper-project-gaining-legitimacy-exec\/\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>From:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/tia-maria-copper-project-gaining-legitimacy-exec\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"T\u00eda Mar\u00eda copper project gaining legitimacy: exec\">Infomine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Valentina Ruiz Leotaud Southern Copper&#8217;s Manager of Technical Services, Carlos Aranda, said this week that the $1.4 billion T\u00eda Mar\u00eda copper project, located in the southern Peruvian region of Arequipa, is gaining legitimacy amongst the population. In a conference held before Peru&#8217;s Mining Engineers Institute, Aranda said that the company, a subsidiary of Grupo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[360],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706951"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=706951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=706951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=706951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=706951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}