BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Peruvian customs officials have seized a record-breaking shipment of illegal mercury, exposing a cross-border smuggling network that is fueling one of the Amazon’s most ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 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 that ...

The chief executive of one of Peru’s largest banks is reasonably sure that the mining nation’s economy can continue to ride a ...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) -Peru's copper output is expected to grow between 2% and 4% this year, said the head of The National Society of Mining, Oil and Energy (SNMPE), Julia Torreblanca. That would put ...

LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's Energy and Mines Minister Jorge Montero expects mining investment in the world's third-largest copper producer to reach $4.8 billion this year, and output of the red metal to ...

LIMA, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Peru's Congress removed Energy and Mines minister Romulo Mucho from his post on Tuesday as protesters from small-scale miners in the Andean nation camped out at the ...

Peru’s government is acknowledging for the first time the existence of large-scale informal mining of copper, warning that high prices could see the activity grow in the near future. The government is ...

The World Mining Congress 2026 (WMC 2026) Program Committee has announced that Mark Cutifani, a globally recognized voice in ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Peru’s decision to shrink its archeological park home to the famous Nazca Lines by around 42% — an area roughly the size of 1,400 soccer fields — has sparked alarm among ...

(AP) The Marzano-Velasquez clan lived a simple, pastoral life on a mountain that turned out to hold the world’s largest known copper-and-zinc deposit. They didn’t expect riches when they and dozens of ...