The Pampa de Pongo iron ore (magnetite) project consists of a block of 8 adjoining mining concessions and 10 mining claims encompassing an area 19 km long and up to 10 km wide (15,300 hectares).
The project is located on the southern coastal plain of Peru, 50 km south of the city of Nazca and 550 km southeast of Lima, in the province of Caraveli, in the governing jurisdiction of Arequipa.
The total area of the mining concession covers 21,202 hectares. The plant capacity is 30 million tons per year of magnetite concentrate grading 63.30% Fe. When treated by dry magnetic separation, only 47,801,147 t/a of mineral mass will have a grade of 42.71% Fe and metallurgical recovery of 93.0% .
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