The Organizing Committee of the XII International Congress of Prospectors and Explorers - proEXPLO 2021- paid a great tribute to Georg Petersen, researcher and university teacher. The ceremony was held on the first day of the congress and was attended by Richard Petersen, son of Georg Petersen.

“His professional career was developed in the oil industry, initially with the firm Faustino Piaggio and sons, Soc. Ltda. To work on the modernization of the Zorritos oil field, in Tumbes. Some time later he occupied the Superintendency, when the deposit became property of the Fiscal Petroleum Company”, he commented.

It should be noted that the Mines section of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru houses the Georg Petersen Museum, where a collection of more than a thousand specimens of minerals, rocks and fossils, from Peru and abroad, is exhibited, which Dr. Georg Petersen he collected during his travels and through exchanges with other countries.

On the other hand, in order to disseminate the importance of mining activity before the Spanish conquest, George Petersen's family donated to the Institute of Mining Engineers of Peru (IIMP), in November of last year, a total of 1,500 copies of the work "Mining and metallurgy in ancient Peru", written by the prominent researcher.