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COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES: (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2015
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES: |
Schedule of environmental capital investments | Environmental capital investments in the nine months ended September 30, 2015 and 2014 were as follows (in millions):
|  | 2015 |  | 2014 |
Peruvian operations |  | $ | 60.8 |  | $ | 95.9 |
Mexican operations |  | 15.4 |  | 17.5 |
|  | $ | 76.2 |  | $ | 113.4 |

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