Volcan Compañía Minera
| Volcan Compañía Minera
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| legal form | SAA |
| ISIN | PEP648014202 |
| founding | 1935 |
| Seat |
Lima , Peru
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| management | Juan Ignacio Rosado Gómez De La Torre (General Manager) |
| sales | 795 million US dollars |
| Branch | Mining |
| Website | www.volcan.com.pe |
| As of December 31, 2015 | |
Volcan Compañía Minera is a Peruvian mining company that operates several lead / zinc mines . In 2015, 284,900 t zinc, 59,600 t lead and 700 t silver (by-product) were mined.
history
The Volcan Compañía Minera was founded in 1943 and for decades supplied ore to the Mahr Túnel concentrator of the Cerro de Pasco Corporation . In 1997 the Volcan Compañía Minera auctioned the opencast mines Mahr Túnel , Andaychagua and San Cristóbal from the state-owned Centromin Peru. In 2000, Volcan took over the Animón and Vinchos opencast mines . The Zoraida and El Pilar opencast mines were added later .
The majority shareholder of Volcan Compañía Minera has been the Swiss company Glencore , which holds 55.03% of Volcan shares, since November 2017 .
As of 2019, the company owns the Yauli Mining Complex , Chungar Mining Unit . In November 2019, Volcan sold all of its mining and processing activities in Cerro de Pasco to the Canadian company Cerro de Pasco Resources (CDPR).
The company also operates the Baños I – V hydropower plants with a total output of 43 MW and plans to expand the Tingo power plant to 10 MW. A 20 MW power plant is currently (2015) being built in Rucuy.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Directorio y Gerencia
- ↑ a b c d Annual Report 2015 (PDF)
- ↑ Historia on the website of Volcan Compañía Minera (Spanish), accessed on November 19, 2019.
- ↑ Unidades de Producción
- ↑ CDPR to Acquire Cerro de Pasco Operations in Peru. In: Cerro de Pasco Resources Inc. November 28, 2019, accessed December 2, 2019 (Canadian English).