Marcona District is one of five districts of the province

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. The district capital is

San Juan de Marcona San Juan de Marcona is the capital of the Marcona District of Nazca Province, Ica Region, Peru. It is a mining, commercial, port, and fishing town, with a population of approximately 20,000 inhabitants. Known as the iron capital and cradle of the ...

a port on the Pacific coast.

Marcona Mine

The major industry in the Marcona District is the

Marcona Mine Marcona may refer to: * Marcona District, Nazca Province, Peru ** San Juan de Marcona, capital of Marcona District ** Marcona Mine, an open-pit iron mine in Marcona District * Marcona, an almond The almond (''Prunus amygdalus'', syn. ''Prun ...

, an

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iron mine. The mine was acquired in 1992 by

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a state owned Chinese corporation which does business locally as Shougang Hierro Peru.

Economy and History

In addition to mining, there is trade and commercial fishing. In 1870, the

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Antonio Raimnondi found the iron ore reserves. The first explorations of the zone in terms of ores and minerals were started in 1915. Marcona District is the only area in

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that mines iron ore and produces iron. The capital of the district

is located in

Ica Region Ica (; qu, Ika) is a department and region of Peru. It borders the Pacific Ocean on the west; the Lima Region on the north; the Huancavelica and Ayacucho regions on the east; and the Arequipa Region on the south. Its capital is the city of Ic ...

Nazca Province The Nazca Province ( es, Provincia de Nazca) is one of five provinces of the Ica Region of Peru. The capital of the province is the city of Nazca. Political division The Nasca Province is divided into five districts ( es, distritos, singular: ) ...

. The exploitations of iron ore begun in 1953 in the bay of San Juan, in parts by the

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company Marcona Mining Company.

References

External links

Municipal web site
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