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La Rinconada is a town in the Peruvian Andes near a gold mine. [1] At up to 5,100 m (16,700 ft; 3.2 mi) above sea level, it is the highest permanent settlement in the world. [ 2 ]
At least seven workers at a small gold mine in southern Peru have died in what is believed to be an accident, local police reported on Thursday. The victims' bodies were discovered 1.5 km (0.93 ...
While some gold mines have been eradicated, Peru's gold mines are still a huge part of the country's culture and economy. At a mere three miles above sea level, working in this environment is ...
Illegal mining or illegal mineral extraction is a common economic activity in Peru, which consists of the exploitation of metallic minerals (such as gold) and non-metallic minerals (clay, marble, among others) to finance criminal organizations. [1] Illegal mining rose to prominence in the late 1970s with the emergence of informality in that ...
Nine workers were killed and 10 others gravely injured in the latest attack where men armed with explosives raided and took hostages at a mine belonging to Poderosa , one of Peru's top gold producers.
Cerro Verde mine [6] copper: 8 Cerro Corona mine [7] gold and copper: 9 Chucapaca mine [8] gold: 10 Corani mine [9] silver: 11 Costancia mine [10] copper: 12 Crespo mine [2] silver: 13 Cuajone mine [11] copper: 14 Galeno mine [12] copper: 15 Haquira mine [13] copper: 16 Huaron mine [14] silver: 17 Lagunas Norte mine [15] gold: 18 Las Bambas ...
Nine people were killed and 15 injured after armed men raided Peru's Poderosa mine with explosives and took hostages, the Interior Ministry said late on Saturday. The attackers entered the mine ...
The Río Huaypetue mine is a large open-pit gold mine in south-eastern Peru, inside the Cusco Region and close to the border with the Madre de Dios and Puno regions. It has been estimated that at the peak of production in 1998, some 2 percent of the world's annual gold production may have come from Huaypetue.