Dividend Power Score
A single, comprehensive score designed to measure the true strength of a company’s dividend.
This score combines three essential pillars of dividend quality:
Consistency – Measures how reliable the dividend has been over time, focusing on payment history, stability, and the absence of cuts or suspensions.
Payability – Assesses the company’s financial ability to sustain its dividend, taking into account cash flow, earnings coverage, balance sheet strength, and overall financial health.
Growth – Evaluates the long-term growth of both the dividend and the company’s share price, highlighting businesses that consistently increase payouts while creating shareholder value.
Higher scores identify companies that have historically delivered dependable income alongside sustained dividend growth and long-term capital appreciation.
Company Overview
Cerro de Pasco Resources Inc. is a Canadian-based mining and resource development company focused on the reprocessing, development, and potential redevelopment of polymetallic mining assets in Peru. The company operates in the mining and metals industry, with exposure primarily to silver, zinc, lead, copper, and gold. Its core strategy centers on recovering valuable metals from historical mining waste while assessing the broader redevelopment potential of legacy mining districts.
The company’s primary asset is the El Metalurgista mining concession, which includes extensive surface tailings and waste material from more than a century of mining activity in the historic Cerro de Pasco mining district. Cerro de Pasco Resources was incorporated in 2018 and subsequently acquired control of key concessions and surface rights, positioning itself as a redevelopment-focused operator rather than a traditional greenfield explorer. Its approach combines environmental remediation with metal recovery, creating a differentiated positioning within the Andean mining sector.
Business Operations
Cerro de Pasco Resources generates value through the evaluation and potential processing of historical mine tailings and mineralized material, rather than active underground mining. Its operations are organized around a single core operating focus: the assessment, metallurgical testing, and economic evaluation of tailings reprocessing and redevelopment opportunities within the Cerro de Pasco mining area. Revenue generation is currently pre-production and dependent on advancing studies toward development.
The company controls surface material, tailings deposits, and associated mineral rights through its Peruvian subsidiary Cerro de Pasco Resources Perú S.A.C. Activities include drilling, sampling, metallurgical testing, and environmental studies. As of the latest publicly available disclosures, the company does not operate producing mines and has no material revenue from commercial production, relying instead on equity financing to fund operations.
Strategic Position & Investments
The company’s strategic direction emphasizes transforming historical environmental liabilities into economically viable resources. Key initiatives include advancing a preliminary economic assessment for tailings reprocessing, evaluating phased development scenarios, and assessing the potential redevelopment of underlying mineralized zones within the historic open pit and surrounding areas.
Cerro de Pasco Resources has not completed any large-scale acquisitions beyond its consolidation of concessions within the Cerro de Pasco district. It does not maintain a diversified portfolio of operating subsidiaries, instead focusing capital and technical resources on a single district-scale asset. The company’s strategy aligns with increasing global interest in sustainable mining practices, secondary resource recovery, and reduced environmental impact mining solutions.
Geographic Footprint
The company’s headquarters are located in Canada, while all material operations and assets are located in Peru, specifically in the central Andes region within the city of Cerro de Pasco. This area has been one of the world’s most significant polymetallic mining districts for over a century.
Cerro de Pasco Resources does not operate in multiple countries and has no production assets outside Peru. Its geographic influence is therefore highly concentrated, with regulatory, environmental, and community engagement efforts focused on a single jurisdiction and mining district.
Leadership & Governance
Cerro de Pasco Resources is led by a management team with experience in mining, capital markets, and project development in Latin America. The company was founded with the objective of unlocking value from legacy mining assets through modern technical and environmental approaches, and its leadership emphasizes disciplined project evaluation and stakeholder engagement.
Key executives and directors include:
- Guy Goulet – Chief Executive Officer and Director
- Santiago Montt – Chief Financial Officer
- Andrew W. Brown – Chairman of the Board
- Richard D. Williams – Director
- Charles J. Beaty – Director
The leadership’s strategic vision focuses on advancing technical studies toward development readiness while maintaining compliance with Canadian public company governance standards and Peruvian regulatory requirements.