US EditionUPDATE 3-Peru Ramps up Fight Against Illegal Mining, Kicks Most Informal Miners Off Permit Scheme
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UPDATE 3-Peru ramps up fight against illegal mining, kicks most informal miners off permit scheme
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. "We will strengthen our efforts to crack down on illegal mining throughout the country," Montero said. The program, called REINFO, was started in 2012 and meant to be a temporary way to formalize miners operating outside the law.
Informal miners block roads in the south of the country amid protests
Economist Juan Carlos Odar, managing director of Phase Consultores, estimated this Wednesday that in the last week around 850 million soles have been lost due to the blockade of roads that are presented in Ica and Arequipa by artisanal miners. "(The sectors most affected) transport, commerce, tourism activities, accommodation and restaurants, as well as informal mining itself. The daily average (loss) is 120 million and accumulated in the week w…
The mayor of Oco a, Walter Llerena, asked the Executive to declare his district in a state of emergency for the miners' strike, which is seriously affecting his jurisdiction.
Puerto Inca is the new capital of illegal gold mining in the Peruvian jungle An attempt by left-wing congressmen to pass a law in favor of illegal mining was the result of the voteThe head of the Ministerial Cabinet, Eduardo Arana, said that the government will not back down the decisions taken in the face of informal mining and urged the demonstrators to put down the blockade of roads that they are following in various regions of the country.In…
The blockade of the Pan American South due to protests by informal and artisanal miners, has generated that in Tacna dozens of foreign citizens are stranded without being able to travel to the capital of the Republic. Although days ago a communiqué was placed inside the Manuel A. Odría terminal where it was indicated that the trips to Lima would be resumed on Wednesday, July 9, this did not happen due to the radicalization of the strike in Nazca…
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