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The Vice Ministry of Mines will adopt measures for the execution and financing of mitigation, remediation and recovery actions. The Ministry of Energy and Mines (MINEM) approved immediate actions that lead to the definitive closure of the Florencia-Tucari mining unit of the company Aruntani S.A.C., located in the district of Carumas, province of Mariscal Nieto, Moquegua region, states Ministerial Resolution No. 458-2024-MINEM/DM, published in the Official Gazette El Peruano.
This is in response to the agreements reached last Tuesday, December 10, during a Round Table in Moquegua, with the participation of the minister of the sector, Jorge Montero Cornejo, together with a High Level Commission of the Executive, with regional, provincial, district and civil society authorities, which addressed the problem of contamination of the Coralaque river basin.
The device establishes that the Vice Ministry of Mines arranges for the comprehensive review of the agreements linked to the Florencia-Tucari mining unit.
Likewise, it authorizes the MINEM to sign, on behalf of the MINEM, agreements, conventions or other documents and to adopt measures for the execution and financing of the closure works that include mitigation, remediation and recovery actions of said mining unit, considering the technically defined components and deadlines.
In its consideration section of the device, it indicates that, through DS No. 077-2024-PCM, the State of Emergency was declared in several districts of the province of General Sanchez Cerro; ordering that the MINEM manage the implementation of exceptional, immediate and necessary measures and actions to reduce the existing Very High Risk, as well as the corresponding response and rehabilitation.
Taking into account that to date, Activos Mineros S.A.C. was transferred. the resources for the execution of the Mine Closure Plans of the mining units Florencia-Tucari, Arasi and Quiruvilca, in accordance with the provisions of section c) of numeral 12.1 of article 12 of Law No. 31366 that approves the Law of Financial Balance of the Public Sector Budget for Fiscal Year 2022; it is appropriate that the immediate actions that lead to the definitive closure of the Florencia-Tucari mining unit of the company Aruntani S.A.C. be approved, the ministerial resolution states.
The legal document bearing the signature of Minister Jorge Montero Cornejo also provides for the publication of this Ministerial Resolution on the Institutional Portal of the Ministry of Energy and Mines.
