Doe Run Peru Reviews Environmental Certification

Company Reviews Environmental Parameters to Ensure Compliance with ISO 14001 Certification

Lima, Peru -- Following cogent discharge akin improvements in contempo months, Doe Run Peru has amorphous a analysis to amend and authorize new ambit for barometer the ecology altitude at its metals processing ability in La Oroya as allotment of its charge to its ecology operating acceding with the Peruvian government, (known by its Spanish acronym, PAMA).

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For us it is axiological that we accept bright and cellophane processes and that they be reflected in abstracts like the ISO acceptance that was accepted to us years ago. Today the bearings has changed, the improvements at La Oroya are axiomatic and we anticipate that this analysis and afterlight is adapted at this time The analysis was amorphous afterward a accommodation by the acceptance agency to append Doe Run Peru's 2006 ISO 14001 acceptance for the ecology administration of the smelter. Doe Run Peru is afterlight emissions advice about the La Oroya metallurgical circuitous to ensure that it aligns with the requirements for certification.

Particulate amount emissions in La Oroya accept decreased by added than 60 percent back Doe Run Peru affected buying of the smelter in 1997. Since Doe Run Peru accustomed ISO 14001 acceptance in July 2006, the afterward improvements, a allotment of others, accept been fabricated at the La Oroya complex:
 

60 percent abridgement in chapped emissions 61.7 percent abridgement of air advance levels 72 percent abridgement of cadmium levels in the air 81 percent abridgement of arsenic in the air Virtual abolishment of communicable aqueous discharges from the smelter into the Mantaro and Yauli rivers
Recently, assembly of the government's Ministry of Health/DIGESA, OSINERGMIN and CONAM discussed the cogent abridgement of emissions and advance in air above in La Oroya at a affair of the Peruvian Congress. The government assembly aswell acclaimed during the affair that the ecology improvements in La Oroya in the 10 years back Doe Run Peru accustomed there had resulted in a cogent advance in the above of activity in the community.

"For us it is axiological that we accept bright and cellophane processes and that they be reflected in abstracts like the ISO acceptance that was accepted to us years ago. Today the bearings has changed, the improvements at La Oroya are axiomatic and we anticipate that this analysis and afterlight is adapted at this time," said Jose Mogrovejo, Doe Run Peru's carnality admiral for ecology affairs.

About Doe Run Peru
Doe Run Peru is a mining and metals aggregation operating in Peru's axial Andes. The aggregation has run the La Oroya metallurgical circuitous back 1997 and the Cobriza abundance in Huancavelica back 1998, bearing top above aesthetic metals while at the aforementioned time alive to accomplish in a socially and environmentally amenable way. For added advice appointment http://www.doerun.com.pe.

Contact:
Víctor Andrés Belaunde
Phone (511)215-1200 ext. 1285
vbelaunde @ pe.doerun.com
fhuapayar @ pe.doerun.com
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