Peru Selected to Host 27th World Mining Congress


Rómulo Mucho (far right), Dario Zegarra (second from the right), and their group from
Peru accept the 27th WMC Handover at the 26th WMC in Brisbane, Australia.
(Photo: IIMP)
During the 104th meeting of the International Organizing Committee of World Mining Congresses (IOC-WMC) on June 25, one day before the start of the 26th World Mining Congress held in Brisbane, Australia, Peru was ratified as the host of the 27th WMC, which will take place during 2026 in Lima. This important event will be organized by the Peruvian Institute of Mining Engineers (IIMP in Spanish).

The request to host the next congress began under the presidency of the IIMP of Romulo Mucho at the IOC-WMC meeting in Montreal, Canada in 2013, during the 23rd WMC. Subsequently, the IIMP sent its representatives, to participate in successive meetings in different places on different continents. On this occasion, the Vice President and Director of the IIMP, Dario Zegarra and Rómulo Mucho traveled to Brisbane, Australia to participate in the 104th meeting of the IOC-WMC and the 26th WMC to consolidate Peru’s candidacy to host the next world mining congress.

It is worth mentioning that Peru already organized the 8th World Mining Congress in Lima in 1974 under the leadership of Luis Briceño, who was also president of the IIMP at that time. This will be the second time that the WMC will be held in Peru in the 65-year-history of the congress.

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