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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001144204-10-067240
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	CORRESP
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
FILED AS OF DATE:		20101217

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			BUENAVENTURA MINING CO INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001013131
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	METAL MINING [1000]
		IRS NUMBER:				000000000
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		AVE CARLOS VILLARAN 790
		CITY:			LIMA
		STATE:			R5
		ZIP:			13
		BUSINESS PHONE:		5114192536

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		AV. CARLOS VILLARAN 790
		CITY:			LIMA
		STATE:			R5
		ZIP:			13
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Ended December 31, 2009</font></font></div>
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Roger Schwall</font></div>
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Street, N.E.</font></div>
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D.C. 20549-4628</font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">Dear Mr.
Schwall:</font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"><font id="TAB1" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"></font>We note the receipt by Compa&#241;&#237;a de
Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. (the &#8220;Company&#8221;), a <font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-STYLE: italic">sociedad an&#243;nima abierta</font>
(open stock company) under the laws of the Republic of Peru (&#8220;Peru&#8221;), of the
comment letter (the &#8220;Comment Letter&#8221;) dated November 5, 2010 from the staff (the
&#8220;Staff&#8221;) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#8220;Commission&#8221;) regarding
the above-referenced Form 20-F (the &#8220;Form 20-F&#8221;).&#160;&#160;On behalf of the
Company, we hereby provide the responses set forth below to the comments in the
Comment Letter.</font></div>
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included the text of the Staff&#8217;s comments below in bold type.&#160;&#160;Except
as otherwise noted in this letter, the information provided in response to the
Staff&#8217;s comments has been supplied by the Company, which is solely responsible
for such information.</font></div>
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Year Ended December 31, 2009</font></font></div>
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Information and Operating Data, page&#160;107</font></font></div>
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              <div align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">We
      note your narrative discussion under caption (2)&#160;of your tabular
      disclosures related to the selected financial information of Minera
      Yanacocha.&#160;&#160;We understand that you have identified differences
      between U.S.&#160;GAAP and Peruvian GAAP resulting in lower revenues
      reported for U.S.&#160;GAAP purposes in each of the years
      presented.&#160;&#160;Despite these lower revenues, we see that your
      U.S.&#160;GAAP net income is higher than your Peruvian GAAP net income for
      the years ended December&#160;31, 2009 and&#160;2008.&#160;&#160;Please
      describe the other differences between U.S.&#160;GAAP and Peruvian GAAP
      which contribute to this higher result, quantifying the amounts for each
      reconciling item.</font></div>
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Company acknowledges the Staff&#8217;s comment and supplementally advises the Staff
that the U.S. GAAP net income of Minera Yanacocha S.R.L. (&#8220;Yanacocha&#8221;) was
higher than its Peruvian GAAP net income for the years ended December 31, 2009
and 2008, despite accounting for lower revenues under U.S. GAAP than would have
been recorded under Peruvian GAAP,&#160;&#160;primarily due to differences
related to the accounting treatment of depreciation
expense.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;The higher threshold for capitalizing assets
under U.S. GAAP resulted in depreciation expense for the years ended December
31, 2009 and 2008, respectively, that was approximately $15.0 million and $26.3
million lower under U.S. GAAP than under Peruvian GAAP, which was the primary
factor responsible for Yanacocha&#8217;s higher net income, despite lower revenues,
under U.S. GAAP.</font></div>
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11</font></font></div>
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Company notes the Staff&#8217;s comment and will expand the heading of each risk
factor in future filings of the Form 20-F to briefly describe the risk presented
under each heading.</font></div>
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Company</font></font></div>
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Equipment, page 77</font></font></div>
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      describing the operating results of each of your properties, we note that
      you disclose &#8220;cash cost per ounce&#8221;, a non-GAAP measure.&#160;&#160;Please
      include all of the disclosures required by Item&#160;10(e) of
      Regulation&#160;S-K, including a reconciliation of your non-GAAP measure
      to the most comparable measure calculated in accordance with GAAP, and an
      explanation of why you believe it provides useful information about your
      financial condition and/or results of
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and will revise its disclosure in future filings of the Form 20-F to delete this
non-GAAP financial measure.</font></div>
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151</font></font></div>
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      your payroll.&#160;&#160;Please clarify why the other employees referenced
      are not on your payroll.&#160;&#160;For example, please clarify whether
      such individuals are temporary
employees.</font></div>
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Company notes the Staff&#8217;s comment and supplementally advises the Staff that the
additional persons referenced on page 151 were not employed by the Company but
were instead employed by wholly-owned subsidiaries of the
Company.&#160;&#160;The Company will revise its disclosure in future filings of
the Form 20-F to disclose the aggregate number of persons employed by the
Company and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis.</font></div>
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      executive officers on an individual basis, or tell us why such disclosure
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Company notes the Staff&#8217;s comment and will revise its disclosure in future
filings of the Form 20-F to disclose the individual share ownership of its
directors and executive officers.&#160;&#160;The Company supplementally advises
the Staff that other than Alberto Benavides, no director or executive officer
beneficially owns more than one percent of the shares of any class and that the
share ownership of the Company&#8217;s directors and executive officers as of April
30, 2010 is set forth below:</font></div>
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Benavides and members of the Benavides family.&#160;&#160;Alberto Benavides
exercises voting control over the common shares subject to the usufructos,
including 5,844,710 and 5,844,710 common shares owned by Roque Benavides and
Ra&#250;l Benavides, respectively.&#160;&#160;The common shares subject to the
usufructos are not included in the separate calculations of share ownership for
Roque Benavides and Ra&#250;l Benavides in the table above.&#160;&#160;Also included
in the calculation of beneficial ownership for Alberto Benavides are 1,301,118
common shares owned by Mr. Benavides&#8217; wife and over which he exercises voting
control.&#160;&#160;Alberto Benavides disclaims beneficial interest in these
common shares.</font></div>
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ownership of its directors and officers in future filings of the Form 20-F in a
manner consistent with the table above.</font></div>
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page&#160;160</font></font></div>
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page&#160;170</font></font></div>
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      offices.</font></div>
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comment and will revise its disclosure in future filings of the Form 20-F to
include the current addresses of the SEC&#8217;s offices.</font></div><br>
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      indicating that you capitalize &#8220;...expenditures that increase
      significantly the economic reserves in the mining units under
      exploitation.&#8221;&#160;&#160;Similarly, we note that Yanacocha&#8217;s
      U.S.&#160;GAAP capitalization policy on page F-83 indicates that they
      capitalize costs associated with activities &#8220;...directed at obtaining
      additional information on the ore body or converting non-reserve
      mineralization to proven and probable reserves and the benefit is expected
      to be realized over a period beyond one year.&#8221;&#160;&#160;Please quantify
      the amounts of costs that you have capitalized under these policies and
      describe the circumstances under which these policies are
      applied.&#160;&#160;Please note that under U.S.&#160;GAAP, costs incurred
      after mineral reserves have been established are commonly developmental in
      nature, when they relate to constructing the infrastructure necessary to
      extract the reserves, preparing the mine for production, and are on this
      basis capitalized.&#160;&#160;On the other hand, exploratory costs are
      those typically associated with efforts to search for and establish
      mineral reserves, beyond those already found, and should be expensed as
      incurred, regardless of the existence of reserves or the stage of
      development of the business
enterprise.</font></div>
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Company notes the Staff&#8217;s comment and will revise the disclosure in the notes to
its consolidated financial statements in future filings of the Form 20-F to
clarify its accounting treatment of exploration and mine development
costs.&#160;&#160;The Company respectfully submits that its accounting treatment
in connection with exploration and development costs complies with U.S.
GAAP.&#160;&#160;Prior to the establishment of proven and probable reserves, the
Company expenses exploration costs as incurred.&#160;&#160;After proven and
probable reserves have been established at a mineral property, the Company then
capitalizes mine developmental costs.</font></div>
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clarify the Company&#8217;s accounting treatments in this area, the Company will
revise the disclosure in note 2.2(l) to its consolidated financial statements in
future filings of the Form 20-F as follows:</font></div>
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costs are charged to expense as incurred.&#160;&#160;These costs primarily
include costs for material and fuels used in exploration, costs for
topographical surveys, drilling costs and payments made to contractors. When the
Company determines that a mineral property can be economically developed by
establishing the existence of proven and probable reserves, the costs incurred
to develop the property, including the costs incurred to further delineate the
ore body and remove topsoil, rocks and other mineral waste to initially expose
the ore body, are capitalized.&#160;&#160;&#160;Mine development costs are
amortized using the units-of-production method, based on proven and probable
reserves.&#8221;</font></div>
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Company supplementally advises the Staff that all expenses properly
characterized as mine development costs incurred during the three years ended
December 31, 2009 were capitalized in accordance with the foregoing
policy.</font></div>
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Company also supplementally advises the Staff that it understands that Yanacocha
believes it complies with U.S. GAAP to expense exploration costs and capitalize
mine development costs.&#160;&#160;The Company further understands that
Yanacocha capitalizes mine development costs incurred to develop new properties
if it has been determined through a feasibility study that the property can be
economically developed based on the existence of proven and probable reserves.
&#160;At surface mines, mine development costs include expenditures to further
to delineate the ore body and remove topsoil, rocks and other mineral waste to
initially expose the ore body. &#160;Mine development costs also include the
purchase of equipment and other expenditures related to the removal of water
from surface mines in order to prepare the mine for mineral
extraction.&#160;&#160;Yanacocha has informed the Company that for the year
ended December 31, 2009, Yanacocha capitalized approximately $54.4 million of
mine development costs in accordance with the foregoing policy.</font></div><br>
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Significant Differences Between Accounting Principles Followed by the Company
and U.S.&#160;Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, page
F-68</font></font></div>
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      outside equity under U.S.&#160;GAAP and that you have included a
      reconciling item for this presentation difference at
      Note&#160;34.&#160;&#160;However, on page F-71 you disclose that you
      adopted the new U.S.&#160;GAAP standard relating to non-controlling
      interests which requires non-controlling interests be presented as a
      separate component of equity.&#160;&#160;Please resolve this inconsistency
      in your disclosures.</font></div>
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Company acknowledges the Staff&#8217;s comment and supplementally advises the Staff
that this discrepancy was due to an administrative error in the transfer of
certain final changes from the Company&#8217;s audited financial statements to the
EDGAR proof of the Form 20-F that was filed with the Commission.</font></div>
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January 1, 2009, the Company adopted the new U.S. GAAP standard relating to the
presentation of non-controlling interests as a separate component of
equity.&#160;&#160;The Company&#8217;s Peruvian GAAP audited financial statements for
the three years ended December 31, 2009 as filed in the Form 20-F correctly
reflect the adoption of this accounting standard.&#160;&#160;In particular,
Peruvian GAAP shareholders&#8217; equity is correctly presented in the Company&#8217;s
balance sheet in the financial statements included in the Form
20-F.</font></div>
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also note that the appropriate changes were reflected in the disclosure and U.S.
GAAP reconciliation table in notes 33 and 34 to the Company&#8217;s audited financial
statements.&#160;&#160;However, due to an administrative error at the filing
stage, certain revisions to notes 33 and 34 to the financial statements were not
transferred to the EDGAR proof of the Form 20-F filed with the
Commission.&#160;&#160;The Company has adopted additional procedures to ensure
that such errors do not occur in future filings of the Form 20-F.</font></div>
    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify">&#160;</div>
    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">As
further explanation, the Company supplementally advises the Staff that this
administrative error resulted in the inappropriate retention of a line item
(&#8220;Minority Interest presented within equity under Peruvian GAAP&#8221;) within the
reconciliation of Peruvian GAAP to U.S. GAAP shareholders&#8217; equity, which was
included on page F-70 in the Form 20-F.&#160;&#160;The Company is supplementally
providing the Staff with the correct version of notes 33 and 34, which reflects
the following principal differences from the version filed with the Commission
on EDGAR: (i) revisions to the summary of significant differences between
Peruvian GAAP and U.S. GAAP related to the presentation of Minority Interest
(note 33),&#160;&#160;(ii) the elimination of the reconciliation item related to
&#8220;Minority Interest presented within equity under Peruvian GAAP&#8221; included in the
shareholders&#8217; equity reconciliation between Peruvian GAAP and U.S. GAAP (note
34) and (iii) the elimination of certain accounting pronouncements under U.S.
GAAP which were not applicable to the Company&#8217;s financial statements as of
December 31, 2009 (note 34). These changes were included in notes 33 and 34 to
the Company&#8217;s audited financial statements, a copy of which is attached hereto
as <font style="DISPLAY: inline; TEXT-DECORATION: underline">Annex
A</font>.&#160;&#160;The Company will supplementally provide to the Staff by
facsimile&#160;a marked copy of notes 33 and 34 to the Company&#8217;s audited
financial statements, which indicates the differences between notes 33 and 34 to
the Company&#8217;s audited financial statements and notes 33 and 34 of the version
filed on the Form 20-F in error.&#160;&#160;The Company advises the Staff that
there were no other material differences between its audited financial
statements and the version of the financial statements filed with the Commission
on Form 20-F.&#160;&#160;The Company will promptly file an amended Form 20-F to
include the correct version of notes 33 and 34 to its financial
statements.</font></div><br>
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              <div align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">We
      note your disclosures relating to the San Pablo ordinance challenging your
      mining rights in the Las Lagunas and Pozo Seco properties.&#160;&#160;You
      express a view that that the ordinance should not impact your legal rights
      to exploit these concessions based on similar experiences in respect to
      Cerro Quillish and that you have submitted a constitutional complaint
      which is pending resolution.&#160;&#160;Please disclose the extent to
      which you have accrued any loss contingencies related to this matter,
      identify the periods impacted, and include your estimate of the reasonably
      possible range of loss, following the guidance in FASB ASC
      section&#160;450-20-50.</font></div>
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addition, quantify the amount of unamortized capitalized costs relating to these
properties that your report on your balance sheet as of December&#160;31,
2009.</font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">The
Company supplementally advises the Staff that it understands that Yanacocha has
not accrued any loss contingency related to this matter.</font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">Yanacocha
has advised the Company that FASB ASC section&#160;450-20-25-2&#160;requires the
accrual of a loss contingency if it is probable that an asset had been impaired
or a liability had been incurred and the amount of loss can be reasonably
estimated.&#160;&#160;The Company understands that Yanacocha does not believe
that it is probable that any asset will be impaired or liability incurred in
connection with this matter, and, accordingly, it has not accrued a loss
contingency.</font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">Yanacocha
has further advised the Company that if an accrual is not required to be made
pursuant to the guidance in the foregoing paragraph, FASB ASC section 450-20-50
requires disclosure of possible loss contingencies if there is at least a
reasonable possibility that a loss may have been incurred.<a name="d3e14387-108349__SL6396574-108349" /><a name="para_32631416" /><a name="d3e14387-108349__SL6396575-108349" /><a name="IAS_37__para.37" /><a name="IAS_37__para.36">&#160;&#160;The Company has been informed that Yanacocha
did not believe that there was reasonable possibility that a loss had been
incurred as of December 31, 2009, and, accordingly, no disclosure was required
under FASB ASC section 450-20-50.</a></font></div>
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addition, the Company supplementally advises the Staff that it understands that
Yanacocha had not maintained any unamortized capitalized costs relating to the
above-referenced properties as of December 31, 2009.</font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; TEXT-DECORATION: underline">Exhibits</font></font></div>
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              <div align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">We
      note your disclosure at page&#160;40 that you enter into sales contracts
      with your customers that state a specific amount of metal or concentrate
      the customer will purchase.&#160;&#160;We also note your disclosure at
      page&#160;41 that in&#160;2009 you sold&#160;44.91 % and&#160;14.56% of
      your concentrates and gold bullion sales to Johnson Matthey Limited and
      Consorcio Minero SA, respectively.&#160;&#160;Please file any related
      material contracts.&#160;&#160;See Form&#160;20-F Instructions as to
      Exhibits.</font></div>
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Company respectfully submits that none of its sales contracts with customers are
material contracts that are required to be filed pursuant to the instructions to
Form 20-F.&#160;&#160;The Company has not entered into an extended term,
material sales contract in respect of sales of metal or concentrate with any of
its customers.&#160;&#160;As metals and concentrates become available for sale,
on a weekly or bi-weekly basis, the Company enters into ad hoc agreements in the
ordinary course of business (similar to simple sales invoices or purchase
orders) for the sale of available metals or concentrates at prevailing market
prices.&#160;&#160;&#160;The Company is not party to any material, long-term
sales contract upon which its business is substantially dependent or which
requires the Company to sell, and the customer to purchase, a material portion
of the Company&#8217;s metals and concentrates over an extended period of
time.</font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; TEXT-DECORATION: underline">Engineering
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; TEXT-DECORATION: underline">La Zanja,
page&#160;33</font></font></div>
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35</font></font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; TEXT-DECORATION: underline">Hua&#241;acancha,
page&#160;37</font></font></div>
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              <div align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">We
      note you disclose resource quantity estimates (tonnage and grade) for the
      La Zanja, Trapiche, and Huanacancha projects in your
      filing.&#160;&#160;The provisions in Industry Guide&#160;7 preclude the
      use of any terms other than proven or probable reserves for in reference
      to quantity estimates for disclosure in SEC filings.&#160;&#160;However,
      you may disclose quantity estimates for &#8220;non-reserve mineralized
      material,&#8221; to refer to mineralization that has been sufficiently sampled
      at close enough intervals to reasonably assume continuity between samples
      within the area of influence of the samples.&#160;&#160;This would not
      include material sometimes classified as inferred
      resources.&#160;&#160;Please remove all resource disclosure from your
      filing.</font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">The
Company acknowledges the Staff&#8217;s comment and will revise its disclosure in
future filings of the Form 20-F to remove all estimates of resources that cannot
be classified as non-reserve mineralization, proven reserves or probable
reserves.</font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; TEXT-DECORATION: underline">El Faique,
page&#160;36</font></font></div>
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      classify the quantity estimates (tonnage and grade) for the El Faique
      deposit.&#160;&#160;Define whether this material is a proven or probable
      reserve or non-reserve mineralization
(NRM).</font></div>
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Company supplementally advises the Staff that the El Faique deposit referenced
in the Staff&#8217;s comment should be classified as non-reserve
mineralization.&#160;&#160;The Company will clarify its disclosure in future
filings of the Form 20-F to specify the appropriate classification as to this
deposit.</font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; TEXT-DECORATION: underline">Sociedad Minera Cerro Verde
S.A.A., page&#160;55</font></font></div><br>
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      note that proven reserves presented in accordance with Industry
      Guide&#160;7 may be combined with probable reserves only if the difference
      in the degree of assurance between the two classes of reserves cannot be
      readily defined.&#160;&#160;Absent this condition, proven and probable
      reserves should be segregated.</font></div>
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Company acknowledges the Staff&#8217;s comment and supplementally advises the Staff
that the proven reserves and probable reserves of Sociedad Cerro Verde S.A.A.
(&#8220;Cerro Verde&#8221;) can be defined and segregated.&#160;&#160;The Company will
revise its disclosure in future filings of the Form 20-F to segregate Cerro
Verde&#8217;s proven and probable reserves in accordance with Industry Guide
7.</font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; TEXT-DECORATION: underline">Yanacocha,
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              <div align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">We
      note your description of the stripping ratio as having units of grams per
      ton.&#160;&#160;Please correct your stripping ratio to reflect the
      relationship of waste removal to ore mined and not as an
      assay.</font></div>
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Company notes the Staff&#8217;s comment and will revise its disclosure in future
filings of the Form 20-F to correct the stripping ratio to reflect the
relationship of waste removal to ore mined and remove the reference to grams per
ton.</font></div>
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      note you are subject to a full range of governmental regulation and
      supervision generally applicable to companies engaged in business in
      Peru.&#160;&#160;You also indicate that you believe that you are in
      compliance with all applicable regulations concerning
      safety.&#160;&#160;With a view towards possible disclosure, provide us
      with relevant statistics (including total reportable injuries, lost-time
      injuries and fatal injuries) on your compliance with such regulations and
      quantify your capital expenditures regarding safety
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Company supplementally advises the Staff that it experienced 277 total
reportable injuries, 140 lost-time injuries and 3 fatal injuries for the year
ended December 31, 2009.&#160;&#160;The Company&#8217;s primary capital expenditures
regarding safety matters relate to the design and construction of mining
operations.&#160;&#160;As a result, the Company respectfully submits that it is
unable to quantify capital expenditures related to safety matters, which
comprise an unquantifiable component of general mine development
costs.</font></div>
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has advised the Company that during the same period, Yanacocha experienced 69
total reportable injuries, no lost-time injuries and 1 fatal
injury.&#160;&#160;Yanacocha further advised the Company that it incurred
approximately $75,000 in capital expenditures relating to safety matters during
the year ended December 31, 2009.</font></div>
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      noted a difference in your reported Cerro Verde mill ore grade found on
      pages&#160;55 and F-134.&#160;&#160;Please correct these grade estimates
      where necessary in your filing.</font></div>
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Company notes the Staff&#8217;s comment.&#160;&#160;Cerro Verde&#8217;s estimated average
copper grade of millable ore reserves of 0.43% as reported on page 55 contains a
typographical error.&#160;&#160;The correct estimate of 0.40% is disclosed on
page F-134.&#160;&#160;The Company will correct this discrepancy in future
filings of the Form 20-F.</font></div>
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Company would appreciate receiving any further questions or comments that the
Staff may have regarding this letter or the Form 20-F at the Staff&#8217;s earliest
convenience.&#160;&#160;You should contact the undersigned at (212) 530-5546 or
Trevor K. Truman at (212) 530-5237.</font></div>
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Gallagher</font></div>
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      of significant differences between accounting principles followed by the
      Company and U.S. generally accepted accounting
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Company's consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance
with Peruvian GAAP which differs in certain respects from U.S.
GAAP.&#160;&#160;The effects of these differences are reflected in Note 34 and
are principally related to the items discussed in the following
paragraphs:</font></div>
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GAAP &#8211; In the consolidated financial statements, Yanacocha and Cerro Verde are
accounted for by the equity method.&#160;&#160;The consolidated results and
shareholders&#8217; equity include the participation in Yanacocha and Cerro Verde
which are obtained from their financial statements prepared following Peruvian
GAAP, modified to recognize the current accounting policies of
Buenaventura.</font></div>
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shares in Yanacocha and Cerro Verde obtained from those entities financial
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GAAP &#8211; Under paragraph 70 of IAS 1, Presentation of Financial Statements,
deferred tax assets and liabilities are always classified as non-current assets
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non-current based on the classification of the related asset or liability for
financial reporting purposes.</font></div>
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the deferred income tax and workers&#8217; profit sharing generated by maintaining
book basis in U.S. dollars and a tax basis in Nuevos Soles (for tax purposes,
the functional currency is Nuevos Soles).&#160;&#160;US GAAP, ASC 740 Income
Taxes (FAS 109 Accounting for Income Taxes), prohibits the recognition of a
deferred tax liability or asset for differences related to non-monetary assets
and liabilities that, under ASC 830 Foreign Currency Translation (FAS 52), are
remeasured from the local currency into the functional currency using historical
exchange rates and that result from changes in exchange
rates.&#160;&#160;Therefore, the deferred income tax recorded under Peruvian
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GAAP &#8211; Workers' profit sharing expense (income) is separately presented in the
consolidated statements of income in a similar way as income tax expense
(income).&#160;&#160;Also, deferred workers' profit sharing asset (liability) is
separately presented in the consolidated balance sheets in a similar way as
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part of operating expense (income).&#160;&#160;Also, deferred workers' profit
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discussion on recognition of deferred tax liability or asset arising from
remeasurement from the local currency into the functional currency in the
section Deferred Income Tax above.</font><br></div>
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GAAP &#8211; Under Peruvian GAAP, based on IAS 21 - The Effects of Changes in Foreign
Exchange Rates, when <a name="IAS_21__para.35">there is a change in an entity&#8217;s
functional currency</a><a name="IAS_21__para.37">,<font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">&#160;</font>the entity shall apply
the translation procedures applicable to the new functional currency
prospectively from the date of the change<font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">&#160;</font>using the exchange rate
at the date of the change.&#160;&#160;The resulting translated amounts for
non-monetary items are treated as their historical cost.&#160;&#160;Therefore,
for Peruvian GAAP purposes, the Company has translated equity accounts into U.S.
dollars using the exchange rate as of December 31, 2005 when it changed its
functional currency from Peruvian Soles to U.S. dollars.</a></font></div>
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&#8211; Under U.S. GAAP, based on ASC 830 Foreign Currency Translation (codified
mainly from FAS 52), equity accounts should be translated into U.S. dollars
using historical exchange rates.&#160;&#160;The cumulative translation loss
amounts to US$19,323,000 (US GAAP) and US$34,075,000 (Peru GAAP) as of December
31, 2009 and 2008.&#160;&#160;It has no effect on total equity as of December
31, 2009 and 2008.</font></div>
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GAAP &#8211; Under Peruvian GAAP, based on IAS 36 &#8211; Impairment loss is calculated by
comparing the net carrying amount of the asset to its recoverable amount, which
is the higher of its value in use or fair value less costs to
sell.&#160;&#160;Under IAS 36 the provision amounted US$3,325,000 for the year
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long-lived assets (FAS 144), Impairment is considered to exist if total
estimated undiscounted&#160;&#160;cash flows are less than the carrying amount
of the asset and an impairment loss is then measured as the amount by which the
carrying value of the asset exceeds its fair value.&#160;&#160;Once recognized,
an impairment loss is not reversed.&#160;&#160;Under ASC 360 the provision
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adjusted at each balance sheet date to reflect the current best estimate. If the
provision was discounted, the provision should increase in each period to
reflect the passage of time. The interest rate used to measure that change is
pre-tax rate that reflects current market assessments of the time value of money
and the risks specific to the liability as of each consolidated balance sheet
date. Under Peruvian GAAP, the accretion expense amounted US$4,839,000 for the
year ended December 31, 2009.</font></div>
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(subsequently codified within ASC 410 Asset Retirement and Environmental
Obligations), changes to an ARO due to the passage of time are measured by
applying an interest method of accretion to the amount of the liability at the
beginning of the period. The interest rate used to measure that change is the
credit-adjusted riskfree rate that existed when the liability, or portion
thereof, was initially measured. That change is recognized as an increase in the
carrying amount of the ARO and as accretion expense (not
interest).&#160;&#160;Under US GAAP the accretion expense amounted US$6,946,000
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respectively, as well as the unusual item related to net loss from release of
commitments in commercial contracts amounting to US$415,135,000 and
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affecting the gross margin.&#160;&#160;The presentation of the loss on the
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functional and reporting currency.&#160;&#160;Effective January 1, 2006, the
functional and reporting currency of the Company is U.S. dollar for Peruvian
GAAP and U.S. GAAP purposes.&#160;&#160;The methodology of translation from
Nuevos Soles into U.S. dollars and the reasons supporting this change are
described in note 2.2 (a) of the consolidated financial
statements.&#160;&#160;The reconciliation tables below show only the
reconciliation of net income and shareholders&#8217;s equity attributable to
Buenaventura because there are no differences between Peruvian GAAP and
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December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007 and to shareholders' equity as of December 31,
2009 and 2008 that would be required if U.S. GAAP had been applied instead of
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accounting</font></div>
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(&#8220;GAAP&#8221;) to be applied by nongovernmental entities. The ASC is a new structure
which took existing accounting pronouncements and organized them by accounting
topic. Relevant authoritative literature issued by the Securities and Exchange
Commission (&#8220;SEC&#8221;) and select SEC staff interpretations and administrative
literature was also included in the ASC. All other accounting guidance not
included in the ASC is non-authoritative. The ASC was effective for interim
quarterly periods beginning July 1, 2009. The adoption of the ASC did not result
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December 2007, FAS 160: Noncontrolling Interests in Consolidated Financial
Statements an amendment of ARB No. 51 (subsequently codified within ASC 810
Consolidation) was issued in order to&#160;&#160;establish accounting and
reporting standards pertaining to ownership interests in subsidiaries held by
parties other than the parent, the amount of net income attributable to the
parent and to the no controlling interest, changes in a parent&#8217;s ownership
interest, and the valuation of any retained no controlling equity investment
when a subsidiary is deconsolidated.&#160;&#160;ASC 810 also establishes
disclosure requirements that clearly identify and distinguish between the
interests of the parent and the interests of the no controlling
owners.&#160;&#160;ASC 810 is effective for the Company&#8217;s fiscal year beginning
January 1, 2009 with early adoption prohibited.&#160;&#160;This statement is
required to be adopted prospectively, except for the following provisions, which
are expected to be applied retrospectively: (i) the reclassification of
noncontrolling interests to equity in the consolidated balance sheets and (ii)
the adjustment to consolidated net income to include net income attributable to
both the controlling and noncontrolling interests.&#160;&#160;The Company has
complied with such requirements.</font></div>
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Company adopted the updated guidance on January 1, 2009. Except for presentation
changes related to noncontrolling interest classified as a component of equity,
the adoption had no impact on the Company&#180;s consolidated financial position and
results of operations or cash flows. </font></div>
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December 2007, FAS 141 (R) &#8220;Business Combination&#8221; (subsequently codified within
ASC 805) was issued in order to provide revised guidance for recognizing and
measuring identifiable assets and goodwill acquired, liabilities assumed, and
any non controlling interest in the acquiree.&#160;&#160;It also provides
disclosure requirements to enable users of the financial statements to evaluate
the nature and financial effects of the business combination.&#160;&#160;ASC 805
is effective for business combinations for which the acquisition date is January
1, 2009 or later and is to be applied prospectively.&#160;&#160;Early adoption
is prohibited.&#160;&#160;The adoption of ASC 805 will have on impact on the
Company&#180;s financial statements depending on whether the Company enters into
business combination transaction in the future.</font></div>
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November 2008, EITF 08-6 (subsequently codified within ASC 323) the guidance for
equity method and joint venture investments was updated to clarify the
accounting for certain transactions and impairment considerations involving
equity method investments. The intent is to provide guidance on: (i) determining
the initial measurement of an equity method investment, (ii) recognizing
other-than-temporary impairments of an equity method investment and (iii)
accounting for an equity method investee&#8217;s issuance of shares. The updated
guidance is effective for the Company&#8217;s fiscal year beginning January 1, 2009
and should be applied prospectively. The adoption had no impact on the Company&#8217;s
consolidated financial position or results of operations.</font></div>
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2009, the guidance for subsequent events was updated to establish accounting and
reporting standards for events that occur after the balance sheet date but
before financial statements are issued or are available to be issued. The update
sets forth: (i) the period after the balance sheet date during which management
of a reporting entity should evaluate events or transactions that may occur for
potential recognition or disclosure in the financial statements, (ii) the
circumstances under which an entity should recognize events or transactions
occurring after the balance sheet in its financial statements, and (iii) the
disclosures that an entity should make about events or transactions occurring
after the balance sheet date in its financial statements. This ASC guidance is
effective for the Company&#8217;s interim period beginning June 30, 2009. The adoption
of this pronouncement and related amendments had no impact on the Company&#8217;s
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