This Thursday, March 25, at the 12th International Congress of Prospectors and Explorers - proEXPLO 2021, Ingemmet's Executive President, MSc. Susana Vilca Achata, presented the paper "Mining Potential and Challenges to Enhance its Value".

During her presentation, the head of Ingemmet pointed out that of the 26 Areas of No Admission of Petitions (ANAP's), 6 currently have high geological mining potential corresponding to porphyry, porphyry-skarn, high sulfidation epithermal and VMS mineral deposits.

She also pointed out that 14.4% of the national territory is under concession and that of this total, only 1.23% is in mining activity, a value consisting of 1.01% in exploitation activity and 0.22% in exploration.

“More exploration is required in order to reach the exploitation stage. Moreover, nowadays it is not possible to value the mining potential if we do not have high quality and accurate databases", she stated.

Likewise, she highlighted that two decades ago, gold, copper, molybdenum, silver, lead and zinc mining projects located in the Western Cordillera were valued; and that nowadays concessions are being granted to add value to the deposits related to critical minerals (lithium, zinc, tin and rare earth elements) and are tending towards the sub-Andean and Eastern Cordillera.

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Ingemmet representatives were also present in the Main Hall. The first talk was on "GEOCATMIN Geodatabase and Mining Cadastre Management System", which was given by MSc. Juan Salcedo from the Information Systems Office.

It should be noted that GEOCATMIN (acronym for Geological and Mining Cadastre Information System) is a digital platform of Ingemmet that has more than 200 layers of information.

The second presentation entitled "Promoting agile technological transformation in the mining cadastre and mining concession granting process" was given by the head of the Mining Cadastre and Pre-Cadastre Unit, Engineer Eloy Cesar Salazar Loayza.

Rildo Rodriguez, Director of Regional Geology at Ingemmet, gave a presentation on "Machine Learning of the 50K National Geological Map and Mining Exploration"; and this block ended with the participation of Ingemmet researcher Luis Quispe Renteria, who gave a talk on "Interpretation of Magnetotelluric Data from the Southern Peruvian Transect and its Relation to Metallogeny”.