The mining regions received in 2021 a total of S/ 6,632 million for concepts related to the mining canon, legal and contractual mining royalties, as well as the right to validity and penalty, according to the Mining Statistics Bulletin of the Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem).
This represented an increase of 59.3% in relation to the total transferred in 2020, when S/ 4,164 million were achieved. Likewise, the amount was consolidated “as the highest annual record figure transferred for said concepts,” highlighted the Minem.
In detail, transfers for the mining canon amounted to more than S/ 2,947 million. This amount was 12.5% higher than what was transferred in 2020 (S/ 2,619 million).
For its part, the total for legal and contractual mining royalties, at the end of the last year, reached more than S/ 3,388 million. The figure was 164.7% higher than that registered in 2020 (S/ 1,280 million). The Minem indicated that “the proceeds come from the payments made by the mining titleholders for the exploitation of metallic and non-metallic resources.”
Lastly, the distribution to subnational governments for the validity and penalty right amounted to more than S/ 295 million “because, through Presidential Resolution No. 111-2021-INGEMMET/PE, the amounts collected were assigned to the month of November 2021″.
Regions with the highest income from mining concepts
Áncash, with more than S/ 1,458 million, ranked first among the regions that captured the greatest resources derived from mining activity and represented 22.0% of the total distributed resources.
The Arequipa region followed in second place, with a figure greater than S/ 1,445 million (21.8%). Meanwhile, in third position was Tacna with an amount that exceeds S/ 627 million (9.5%).
Source: Larepublica
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