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CERRO DE PASCO, or PASCO

This article appears in Volume V05, Page 762 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CAU-CHA
CERRO DE PASCO, or PASCO , a mining town of Peru,
capital
  of the department of
Junin
 , 107 M. (22, M. by rail, via Oroya) N.E. of
Lima
 . Pop. (1907 est.) 10,000. It is situated on the
plateau
  of Bombon, 14,280 ft. above sea-level, and in the midst of one of the oldest and richest silver-mining districts of Peru. There were 342 silver mines in this
district
  in 189o, and at the end of the ,9th century the
average
  annual output since the discovery of the mines in 163o was estimated at 1,600,000 oz. A decline in the silver production having set in, the American company which had become owners of three-fourths of the mining properties in the
district
  turned its attention to the extensive copper deposits there, built a railway to Oroya 83 M. distant, another, 25 M.
long
 , to the coal-fields of Gollarisquisga, north of Pasco, and then erected large smelting works (in which 2500 men were regularly employed in 1907) 8 m. out of town and 4 M. from limestone beds. The railway to Oroya was completed in 1903, the coal mine branch and smelter later on, and in 1907 the copper output was 20,152,000 lb. The town of Pasco is badly built and unattractive, and is inhabited chiefly by mining labourers and their families. Its population is increased 50% in times of
great
  mining activity. The name Cerro de Pasco is that of a " knot " of mountains uniting the two
great
  ranges of the Andes at this point.


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