The Cuajone porphyry copper-molybdenum deposit is located in the South-West of Peru, in the province of Moquegua (Torata district). It is operated by the company Southern Peru Copper Corporation and began its operations in 1976. The deposit belongs to the Metallogenetic Belt number XIII of Peru (Acosta et al., 2011). The mine has reserves of 1,883,081 Mt @ 0.503% Cu and 0.018% Mo (Cuajone Mine Geology, 2018). The operation has a plant capacity of approximately 100 kt/day of mineralized rock. The average metallurgical recovery of copper varies by lithological unit from 81.59% in the IA FIL PTK (IA porphyry with potassic-phyllic alteration) to 85.7% in the LP QS (LP porphyry with phyllic-argillic alteration). The recovery parameter is very important economically because if it was greater in 1% just in the BA PTK unit with a tonnage of 40 kt processed per day in the plant (usual for this su...

Near Cusco, in the southeast of Peru, copper oxide ores were extracted in nine small-scale historic mines. These deposits host stratiform copper orebodies within the Eocene-Oligocene San Jeronimo Group. One of these deposits, developed by the Tambomachay mine, was chosen for detailed study. The objective was to determine whether this could be classified as a SRHSCD. The methodology included bibliographic research, field work, and petromineralogical and geochemical analyses. A feldspathic greywacke of the San Jeronimo Group, varying from 10 to 90 cm in thickness, hosts ore that is either disseminated predominantly along laminations or within veinlets. The primary minerals are chalcopyrite and bornite, there is also abundant chalcocite, and covellite-digenite replaces chalcocite. The presence of oxide minerals intergrown with the ores, particularly with covellite, chalcocite, and digenite,...

The Cuajone porphyry copper-molybdenum deposit is located in the South-West of Peru, in the province of Moquegua (Torata district). It is operated by the company Southern Peru Copper Corporation and began its operations in 1976. The deposit belongs to the Metallogenetic Belt number XIII of Peru (Acosta et al., 2011). The mine has reserves of 1,883,081 Mt @ 0.503% Cu and 0.018% Mo (Cuajone Mine Geology, 2018). The operation has a plant capacity of approximately 100 kt/day of mineralized rock. The average metallurgical recovery of copper varies by lithological unit from 81.59% in the IA FIL PTK (IA porphyry with potassic-phyllic alteration) to 85.7% in the LP QS (LP porphyry with phyllic-argillic alteration). The recovery parameter is very important economically because if it was greater in 1% just in the BA PTK unit with a tonnage of 40 kt processed per day in the plant (usual for this su...