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Peruvian customs officials have seized a record-breaking shipment of illegal mercury, exposing a cross-border smuggling network fueling illicit gold mining in the Amazon ...
Peru is considering whether to give the green light to a wave of new mining projects worth a combined $6 billion in ...
An attack by armed assailants on a patrol of a mission by the Indigenous Wampis guards last week in the Peruvian Amazon has again brought into focus the issue of illegal gold mining in the ...
LIMA (Reuters) -Peru's government has kicked 50,565 informal miners off a temporary program that allowed them to continue operations, the minister of energy and mines said on Friday. Only 31,560 ...
July 3 (UPI) -- The government of President Dina Boluarte has extended Peru's small-scale mining formalization program through December, even as doubts persist more than a decade after its launch ...
Indigenous and rural communities from Peru's northern Amazon have filed a formal complaint against the government for failing to curb illegal gold mining in the Nanay River basin.
LIMA, July 2 (Reuters) - A protest by informal miners in Peru is blocking parts of a key copper corridor used by major miners MMG (1208.HK), opens new tab, Glencore (GLEN.L), opens new tab and ...
Peru seizes record 4-ton mercury shipment in fight against illegal gold mining Customs workers carry bags of mercury hidden in gravel-filled bags in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, July 16, 2025.
Peru is evaluating the authorization of 134 mining exploration and exploitation projects worth an estimated investment of $6 ...
In Peru’s Madre de Dios region, an epicenter of illegal mining, mercury contamination has been detected in drinking water, fish and even breast milk. Long-term exposure to methylmercury can ...
A ‘gold-mercury-drug trifecta’ In Peru’s Madre de Dios region, an epicenter of illegal mining, mercury contamination has been detected in drinking water, fish and even breast milk.
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