Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1900 — Peru’s Mineral Wealth. [ARTICLE]

Peru’s Mineral Wealth.

The soil of Pera contains the largest E amber of mineral species—at Plurla, i the north, petroleum and sulphur; •liver, lead, copper and coal In the great mining basin of Cerro de Pasco, In Central Peru, and phosphate, quicksilver, auriferous grounds and borax at Arequlpa, Carabaja, In the south. A-t the present time the number of (nines In exploitation is 2,500, employing 70,000 workmen.