Following a series of meetings between representatives of Peru’s executive and legislative powers and the small-scale mining sector, the country enacted a law that extends the process of ...

LIMA (Reuters) - Thousands of small-scale miners in Peru blocked roads and camped outside ... blocked the main coastal highway in the southern regions of Ica and Arequipa, leaving hundreds of ...

Peru’s government will create a “mining fund” set to finance incentives for small and artisan miners, the Andean country’s energy and mining minister Jorge Montero said on Wednesday.

LIMA (Reuters) - Seven people were shot dead inside a gold-mining tunnel in a southern Peruvian region where thousands ... world work in artisanal and small-scale mining where minerals including ...

LIMA, March 14 (Reuters) - Peru's Congress has knocked down legislation that threatened to shut down thousands of small-scale mine operations, a move that comes after days of fierce protests from ...