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Disclosure of MINSUR´s Tailings Storage Facilities

June 24, 2019

Minsur responded to the request from the Church of England Pensions Board and the Swedish Council on Ethics for information on mining companies’ tailings storage facilities (TSF´s). Minsur currently manages 6 tailings storage facilities operating in San Rafael mine (1) in Puno region, Peru and Pitinga mine (5) in Manaus, Brazil. Since 2013, Minsur´s geotechnical […]

Mining of the future

June 24, 2019

Minsur drives the trend of the 21st-century mining industry Minsur participated in the Future Symposium, event organized by the German thyssenKrupp Rasselstein GmbH at Andernach, last May 22. The event gathered the leaders of several companies, customers and partners of this industrial giant and it aimed at envisioning the future and analyzing the trends of […]

Disclosure of MINSURs Tailings Storage Facilities

June 7, 2019

Disclosure of MINSURs Tailings Storage Facilities

High-impact farming investment

April 1, 2019

According to the social investment report of San Rafael MU, in FY2018 the mining company invested near to 3 million soles in farming infrastructure. This was generated as part of the agreements with the development Roundtables in Antauta and Ajoyani basins. Thus, up to December 2018, 301 barns were installed in Ajoyani, which provides protection […]

Minsur restates its committment with safe water management

April 1, 2019

Within the framework of the World’s Water Day celebration, Minsur renewed its commitment with the continuous improvement in water management. Moreover, access of neighboring communities to quality water services is a social investment priority. Minsur admission to the ICMM poses a great challenge for an efficient environmental management. Thus, the company is reviewing and […]

Meeting with Minsur’s strataegic partners

April 1, 2019

Minsur organized the III Meeting of Strategic Partners, last March 20th. In that event the company shares its guidelines and values with its suppliers and cntractors. The purpose is strengthenign Sustainability and Safety across the value chain, through effective communication and the recognition of good practices. In this sense, the space was suitable to […]

Minsur strengthens its tailings dams’ management

April 1, 2019

After Brumadinho, Minsur is reviewing (how it is done permanently), with the all Engineering of Record (EoRs), for each Mine Tailings Storage Facility the reliability of our geotechnical models, design assumptions and monitoring database. Towards to increase our quality of evaluations, analyses, confidence parameters and management, as example as Actions Plans to achieve them, […]

Minsur at the Business for 2030 forum

November 16, 2018

Last October, Minsur participated in the event “Making, Valuing and Communicating SDG impact”, organized in New York by the Business for 2030 forum, an initiative of the United States Council for International Business (USCIB). Minsur presented its experience implementing Social Progress Index (SPI) in the areas of influence of mining operations. The Social Progress Index (SPI) measure the extent […]

Minsur receives the John T. Ryan trophy, the main safety award

November 16, 2018

Minsur was again awarded due to its mining safety standards, which are among the highest of the international mining industry. On November 8, at night, it received the prestigious safety award John T. Ryan in two categories: Open pit, for Pucamarca mine in Tacna, and Underground mine for San Rafael in Puno. Such prize, awarded […]

Quest for early child development

November 16, 2018

Find out how Antauta and Ajoyani districts have reduced anemia rates by over 50% Anemia is a disease characterized by the lack of enough healthy red blood cells to transport an appropriate level of oxygen to body tissues. In young children it affects brain development, and thus they have growing and learning problems among other […]