The Peruvian Institute of Mining Engineers (IIMP) made the grand launching of the 12th International Congress of Prospectors and Explorers (proEXPLO 2021), one of the most important mining exploration events in the continent, which will be held in the framework of our Bicentennial, from February 8 to 10, 2021.

This presentation took place during the traditional Mining Thursday, organized by the IIMP, with the special participation of Eng. Enrique Garay, president of the event, and Eng. Sebastián Benavides Kolind-Hansen, member of the organizing committee of the event, who gave the presentation "Mining exploration in the new decade".

Other members of the organizing committee are Dr. Miguel Cardozo, vice-president of the IIMP, Dr. Silvia Rosas Lizarraga, and engineers David Kelley, Jean Vallance, César Farfán Bernales, Carlos Urrea Farias, Ángel Mondragón Dávila, Jonás Mota e Silva and economist Alberto Arispe Bazán.

During his presentation, Eng. Enrique Garay said that this new edition aims to emphasize that mining exploration must be understood from a comprehensive point of view, since each of its activities forms part of a value chain that allows us to consolidate the discovery of new deposits.

He added that proEXPLO 2021 is projected to receive more than 900 participants, and will have three research categories: 1) Innovation in Exploration, 2) Exploration Success Stories: Peru and Latin America, and 3) Optimal Transition: From Exploration to Mine.

First Exploration Projects Fair

One of the novelties of proEXPLO 2021 will be the presentation of the First Exploration Projects Fair, a new platform for commercial interaction between small mining investors and large mining companies or investment funds interested in expanding their investment portfolios.

"We want proEXPLO 2021 to be a platform for this type of negotiations. Not just juniors, but individual investors who have a mining property and can present their projects in an orderly, technical and sustained manner," he remarked.

Likewise, the traditional Core Shack will be held, a space especially designed for the exhibition of exploration samples from the projects of leading mining companies in the country, showing the progress of their explorations through witnesses, photographs and plans. This will be aimed at junior mining companies.

There will also be a Technological and Trade Exhibition with the participation of the main mining and service companies that work in exploration, as well as universities and mining industry institutions.