The Central Reserve Bank of Peru says the country has the potential to double copper production in coming years driven by ...

“The registry of formalization of informal miners has been around for about 12 years or a little more, it is a process for the formalization of artisanal miners. Unfortunately until now they have not ...

Peru is to impose a curfew and temporarily suspended gold mining in the northern district of Pataz where 13 people were killed after a kidnapping inside a gold mine.

TRUJILLO, Peru (Reuters) - Peruvian mining sector worker Frank Monzón was aware of the risks, but the lure of gold deep in the Andean rock of northern Pataz province outweighed the danger. Now he and ...

This reactivation will encompass at least 80% of Peru's mining production capacity, according to the SNMPE. Peru's mining sector contracted 42.29% in April, according to figures from national ...

LIMA, March 25 (Reuters) - Buenaventura, one of Peru's largest mining firms, signed a water concession with the government on Tuesday in a bid to unlock the development of a major copper project at a ...

On Wednesday, December 17, Peru's Congress approved a one-year extension of temporary permits for small-scale miners, valid until the end of 2026. The Peruvian government had previously opposed a ...

Since Southern Peru has been absorbed into a bigger subsidiary that includes Mexican mines, called Southern Copper, the stake in Southern Peru amounted to about 30 percent of the new company, Hanen ...

LIMA (Reuters) -Peru's Congress removed Energy and Mines minister Romulo Mucho from his post on Tuesday as protesters from small-scale miners in the Andean nation camped out at the legislature's ...

Scientists in Peru have removed small green algae from polluted lakes and rivers in a bid to strengthen them with nutrients and oxygen before returning them to purify those water bodies from harmful ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Peruvian customs officials have seized a record-breaking shipment of illegal mercury, exposing a cross-border smuggling network that is fueling one of the Amazon’s most destructive ...

MADRE DE DIOS, Peru, Sept 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Speeding over to a muddy bank of Peru's Madre de Dios river in a motorboat, Karina Garay pointed to a small wooden structure. "Bingo!" ...