La Granja is in the Querocoto district of the northern region of Cajamarca, Peru. It sits 90km north-east of Chiclayo – the capital of Lambayeque region – at an altitude of between 2,000 and 2,800 metres.
La Granja is one of the largest undeveloped copper resources in the world. Discovered in the early 1980s, Rio Tinto operated the project from 2006 to 2023, carrying out extensive drilling to expand the resource and managing world-class community relations to ensure strong local support.
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Owner/operator: First Quantum Minerals 55%, Rio Tinto, Peruvian Government
Drilling program 370 km as of May-26
Resources & reserves: 4.8 Gt (measured & indicated), grading 0.48%, equal to 23 Mt of contained copper; further 5.2 Gt inferred, grading 0.40%, equivalent to another 20.7 Mt copper. NI 43-101 filing.
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- May-26: First Quantum’s Peru project joins ranks of copper giants (checked 19-May-26)
- Oct-25: First Quantum hits back at ESG report on “blocked” La Granja (checked 16-Oct-25)
Created Oct-25; updated May-26