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Peru's mining sector expands in March as copper production up 20%

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By Vladimir Basov
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(Kitco News) - The National Institute of Statistics and Informatics of Peru (INEI) announced today that the domestic mining and hydrocarbons sector expanded by 9.28% in March 2023 compared to March 2022.

In its press release, INEI said that this improvement was a result of the positive performance in the domestic metallic mining subsector, which grew by 8.7% due to higher production of copper (19.9%), molybdenum (7.1%), iron ore (14.0%), gold (1.0%) and lead (1.5%).

This was partially offset by lower production of zinc (-23.8%), tin (-48.5%) and silver (-2.0%).

INEI added that Peru’s hydrocarbons subsector expanded by 12.66% due to higher extraction of crude oil (50.4%) and natural gas (15.3%); this was partially offset by the decrease in extraction of natural gas liquids (-3.6%).

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Vladimir Basov

Vladimir (PhD, MEng in Mining) is a professional mining engineer, scientist and analyst that has more than 20 years of practical in-field and research experience. He is particularly interested in collecting, processing baseline data and writing insightful data-driven mining industry analytics, articles, statistical and research reports.

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