Copper mining in Peru, the world’s second-largest producer, is almost recovering from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, a government official said Tuesday.
Peru’s copper production, however, fell 2. 2% in July, with the same it was a year earlier, to 198,796 tons, under the weight of the pandemic, which limited mining, said in a statement the deputy minister of Energy and Mines, Jaime Gálvez. conference.
The Peruvian government decreed some 40 because of the coronavirus in mid-March, with special restrictions on mining activity. The industry, the Andean country’s key economic engine, began normalizing its activities in May.
In early August, the government said that red steel production fell 20. 4% in the first part of 2020 to the same era in 2019.
(By Marco Aquino and Cassandra Garrison; Edited through Chris Reese and Jonathan Oatis)