(Adds company spokesman, smelter operating normally)

LIMA, April 5 (Reuters) - Workers at a U.S.-owned smelter complex in Peru called an end to a three-day strike late Wednesday after striking a financial deal with the company, a trade union leader said.

Workers at the La Oroya smelter, run by the Peruvian unit of the Missouri-based Doe Run Company, downed their tools on Monday because they were dissatisfied with how the company redistributed a share of profits to employees -- something mining firms must do under Peruvian law.

"We've decided to lift the strike, to go back to work," said union leader Anibal Carhuapoma by telephone.

A company spokesman in Peru said on Thursday the smelter was "operating totally normally" following the deal that ended the industrial action.

The smelter lies in an Andean region 175 kilometers (110 miles) east of Lima and produces concentrates of lead, zinc, copper, gold and silver.

Doe Run started running it in 1997 after it was privatized.

Last year, the company produced 59,000 tonnes of refined copper, 41,000 tonnes of zinc, 120,000 tonnes of lead, 1,100 tonnes of silver and 2,300 kilograms of gold.

Mining is a pillar of the economy in the South American country, a top-five global producer of gold, silver, copper and zinc.

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