Doe Run Peru operates the La Oroya smelter in central Peru, some 108 miles east of the capital city, Lima. It opened in 1922 and is the world's most diversified metals smelter -- churning out gold, silver, lead, zinc, copper and a dozen specialty metals.
Doe Run Peru, a top 10 metals exporter in Peru, last year produced 53,831 tonnes of copper, 114,259 tonnes of lead, 43,440 tonnes of zinc, 1.07 million fine kilograms of silver, along with 1.69 million fine grams of gold, according to the mining ministry.
The company, a unit of the U.S.-based Renco Group. The company is owned by New York billionaire Ira Rennert's Renco Group, which owns the U.S.-based Doe Run Co., the largest lead producer in the Western Hemisphere.
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