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* Participants strengthen leadership skills and better understanding about mining processesThe Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem) closed the second mining internship of the year 2025, with the participation of 36 representatives from the communities of Marayhuaca (Lambayeque), La Encanada (Cajamarca), and of the Tambo Valley (Arequipa), related to the Canariaco, Michiquillay and Aunt Maria mining projects, respectively.
Among the interns listed representatives of the peasant community of La Encanada (Cajamarca), related to the Michiquillay mining project that represents an investment of US $ 2500 million.
Also, from the San Isidro Labrador Indigenous Peasant Community of Marayhuaca (Lambayeque), an area of influence of the Canariac project, which represents an investment of US $ 1043 million, and the Association of ECOGS ECO METS Valle de Tambo (Arequipa), which is related to the Tia Maria mining project, which represents an investment of US $ 1400 million.
The Deputy Minister of Mines, Henry Luna Cordova, stressed that participants not only shared technical knowledge about mining, current regulations and environmental and social management, but also experiences, reflections and proposals that are born from the communities and from the different actors involved in this sector.
This internship has been an opportunity to tend bridges, to listen to different voices and to build a more comprehensive and shared vision of development, Luna emphasized and highlighted the interest of the interns in strengthening their leadership skills and their understanding of mining processes.
At another time, the Deputy Minister indicated that the regions of Lambayeque, Cajamarca and Arequipa, joined by copper as a common resource, have shown that the mining potential is not only in the subsoil, but also in the will and capacity of their communities to be an active part of the development.
Today more than ever, it is clear that the future of mining requires the informed and constructive participation of all the actors, he said.
The vice minister thanked the institutions that made this meeting possible, including Ingemmet, Mimp, AMSAC, Oefa, Senace, Midagri and Proinversion, for their technical contribution and their commitment to modern, sustainable and respectful mining.
This internship has not only been a training space, but also a starting point to continue building a fair development path together, with dialogue, respect and shared vision, Luna submitted to all interns.
