Mines/Peru

Pasto Bueno mine

Pasto Bueno mine, Peru, underground, mining tungsten.

Why Pasto Bueno is famous

Pasto Bueno is a tungsten mine in the Ancash region of Peru. A Peruvian news agency report from about 2011 says the Consuzo sector was the main mining focus in the 1970s, when a plant treating 1,000 tonnes a day ran. The Loreto vein has historic production of 1.95 Mt of ore at 0.95% WO3. Drilling in 2010 found a high-grade zone at depth, and Malaga partly reopened the old workings in 2010. Current status is not stated.1

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Pasto Bueno today

Where tungsten is mined todayMining in Peru

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An example ofPanasqueiraTungsten in Peru's Ancash region and in Portugal: Pasto Bueno and Panasqueira.1An example ofSangdongTungsten in Peru and Korea: Pasto Bueno and Sangdong.1

Sources

  1. Malaga announces discovery of new tungsten mineralized deep zone at Pasto Bueno Andina (Peru state news agency)

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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