Peru has acknowledged that miners operating in an area once protected around the famed Nazca Lines can now begin the process of legalizing their activities after the government reduced the buffer ...

An attack by armed assailants on a patrol of a mission by the Indigenous Wampis guards last week in the Peruvian Amazon has ...

After the failure to extend the REINFO program and the rejection of MAPE, President Boluarte claimed that "Only illegal ...

Peru produced about 2.7 million tons of copper in 2024 and attracted $4.96 billion of investment in the key mining sector.

LIMA (Reuters) -Peru's government has restored formal mining operations in northern parts of the country that were affected by violence, Defense Minister Walter Astudillo said on Wednesday. Last ...

In one of the worst episodes of violence, the bodies of 13 gold miners were discovered in May at a site operated by Peru’s largest gold-mining firm, ...

The government of President Dina Boluarte has extended Peru's small-scale mining formalization program through December, even as doubts persist more than a decade after its launch and experts warn ...

LIMA (Reuters) -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. Only 31,560 ...