The government of President Dina Boluarte has extended Peru's small-scale mining formalization program through December, even ...

The blockade is part of an action demanding that the government extend the deadline for regularising informal mining ...

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.

LIMA (Reuters) -Miners in Peru who have been allowed to operate with temporary permits have paused protests that blocked a ...

Informal miners in Peru have paused their more-than-two-week-long protest that blocked a major copper transit route, one of the protest leaders, Luis Huaman, told Reuters on Tuesday. He said they ...

Mining now makes up about 60% of Peru's total exports. Peru holds the world's second-largest copper reserves and ranks among the top producers of gold, zinc, and silver.

Notably, the metallic mining sector saw the most significant downgrade, with growth expectations slashed from 2% to a meager 0.3%. Similarly, the hydrocarbons sector’s outlook was trimmed, from ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Indigenous and rural communities along the Nanay River in Peru’s northern Amazon filed a complaint on Friday accusing the government of failing to stop illegal gold mining ...

The biggest threat to Peru tapping more of its giant copper deposits is rising informal and illegal mining activity, according to the head of the country’s main industry association, SNMPE. Peru ...