This new edition of the International Congress of Prospectors and Explorers will not only focus on the importance of exploration activity or the discovery of new deposits, but will also highlight the role of women in the mining exploration industry.

Thus, for proEXPLO 2021 -an event organized by the Peruvian Institute of Mining Engineers-, the Round Table "Contribution of women to the Peruvian mining exploration industry" will be held.

This talk will be given by Silvia Kohler, exploration and evaluation geologist with experience in mines and operations of metallic and non-metallic deposits in Peru, Chile and Canada; Clara Indacochea, geological engineer and who has served as representative of Petroperu workers in the period 2013 and 2015; and Maria Manrique, geological engineer and currently engineer in charge of project at the Geological, Mining and Metallurgical Institute (Ingemmet).

"Women have been contributing to the mining industry and the exploration industry for many years. I believe I am not wrong when I say that the myth that women cannot enter the mine has almost been eradicated. Furthermore, there are women working in almost all areas of the mining industry; they are also working in environmental areas, community relations, in the process plant and, of course, in the administrative areas", stated the president of proEXPLO 2021, Eng. Enrique Garay.

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