78 79 cerro de pasco The greatest investment of the XXth century earning a salary that perhaps they had never dreamed of. The unfortunate thing was that, in the words of Helguero Paz Soldán himself, “they lack the thrifty spirit. All the money they earn is spent immediately and almost always on alcoholic beverages, without worrying about the well-being of their family”. By then, the Cerro de Pasco Copper Corporation had become a benchmark for how to do mining in a comprehensive manner, especially for Peruvian professionals in the mining, geological and metallurgical areas, since, for their daily work, the company brought to Peru the best professionals from the different corners of the world and implemented a technical and scientific method of working with first-rate international standards. In short, the U.S. company established a rigourous and comprehensive method to explore, extract, concentrate and melt the ore, guidelines that became the standard for Peruvian miners’ practice. This was so much so that for decades, the general consensus of Peruvian professionals linked to mining activity can be summed up in a single sentence: “La Cerro was a real school”. � Left– Cerro was a benchmark for national miners, who updated their techniques and processes following the guidelines of the corporation.
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