Spain's Zelestra plans to invest at least $1 billion in renewable energy plants over the next five years powering mines in copper-rich southern Peru, the company's CEO for Latin America told Reuters.

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 ancestral t ...

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.

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

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

The decision to halt the demonstrations comes as protesters continue to push for an extension of their temporary permits.

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 ...