The mining investment between January and November 2021 it reached US $ 4,453 million. The figure represents an increase of 21.6% in relation to the same period of the previous year when US $ 3,663 million was achieved, according to data from the Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem).
The result for the penultimate month of the year is just under US $ 750 million of the US $ 5.2 billion investment projected by the portfolio for all of 2021.
Disaggregated by item
As of November, the profit plant item led the accumulated investment with US $ 1,226 million, followed by infrastructure (US $ 1,156 million), mining equipment (US $ 615 million), development and preparation (US $ 515 million), closes the list the exploration subsector with US $ 283 million.
In all cases, the variation in relation to 2020 is positive, with the exception of mining equipment where the amount spent fell by -7.3%.
Likewise, the item others, which groups together investments that do not pertain to the construction of the mining project, achieved a total of US $ 658 million, that is, 15.9% more than between January and November 2020.
Investment by regions
Regarding the accumulated investment executed at the regional level, Moquegua with US $ 1,216 million ranked first, driven mainly by the Quellaveco mining project.
The second place is occupied by Áncash (US $ 452 million) due to the investment of Minera Antamina in the Huincush project.
Meanwhile, the third region was Ica (US $ 394 million) thanks to the Shouxin Expansion project.
It is necessary to specify that These three regions together represent 46.3% of the total investment between January and November 2021.
Mining companies that led
Regarding the mining companies that led the investment in the sector, Anglo American Quellaveco SA (US $ 1,115 million) ranked first with a participation of 25.0%; while in second and third place were the Compañía Minera Antamina SA (US $ 400 million) and Southern Peru Copper Corporation (US $ 290 million) with interests of 9.0% and 6.5%, respectively.
At the end of 2021, the transfer of resources generated by mining to subnational governments increased by almost 60%, reaching a record figure of S / 6,624 million.
Data
Monthly result. In November alone, investment amounted to US $ 475 million, 2.4% more than in October 2021 and 23.3% more than the same month in 2020.
Effect. This increase compared to the month of October is due to greater investment by companies such as Antamina, Quellaveco, Shouxin, among others.
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