 Hudbay said in February it expected to start mining the Pampacancha satellite deposit in late 2020, but restrictions imposed to fight the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus have limited the governments ability to consult with a local indigenous community, said Peter Kukielski, Hudbays president and CEO. We think that the government will be very motivated to get it done, but it is a process that requires reasonably intensive human contact and so we think that there certainly will be a little bit of a lag once the state of emergency is lifted, he told Reuters. Hudbay was among numerous miners in Peru, the worlds No.2 copper producer after Chile and its sixth-largest gold producer, to shutter operations after the government declared a state of emergency to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. 