Cerro Verde

Sociedads Minera Cerro Verde S.A.A.

Type	Public
Traded as	: CVERDEC1
Industry	Mining
Founded	(1970)
Headquarters	Arequipa, Peru
Key people	John Douglas Brack (CEO)
Products	Copper
Revenue	US$ 1.7 Billion (2009)
Net income	US$ 709.0 million (2009)
Number of employees	1,938
Parent	Freeport-McMoRan
Website	Cerro Verde

Cerro Verde is a Peru-based mining company. Its activities include the extraction, exploitation and production copper from the porphyry copper deposit located southeast of the city of Arequipa. In addition, the company holds a copper sale agreement with Sumitomo Metal Mining, as well as a molybdenum sale contract with Climax Molibdenum Marketing Corporation.

Cerro Verde project is undergoing a major expansion in order to increase its concentrator facilities to 360,000 metric tons-per-day (mtd). Fluor Corporation is in charge of the construction management services for the said expansion.

Montgomery Watson y Harza (MWH) and Alto Cayma consortium supervised the construction and constructed respectively La Tomilla II drinking water plant, a social responsibility project through which potable water for residents of Arequipa in Perú is being produced and delivered.