Oil & Gas
Peru Congress reverses procedure fought by small gold miners
Peru's Congress has knocked down legislation that threatened to shut down countless smallscale mine operations, a move that comes after days of strong protests from artisanal miners in the significant gold manufacturer and international No. 2 copper producing nation. In a plenary session on Wednesday night, the legislature annulled a federal government step applied late in 2015 that set a. March 21 due date for small miners to provide a valid. mining agreement or mining concession, otherwise they would be. gotten rid of from a national program to formalize little mining. operations. Peru has actually for years been trying to...