Contentious Copper Boom Sparks Existential Mining Crisis in Peru
The nation’s massive copper deposits are key to meeting growing global demand. A battle has emerged over who gets to mine and ...
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Peru’s rare peatland swamps at risk as illegal gold mining expands
Gold mining in Madre de Dios, Peru, is destroying rare peatland swamps that serve as critical carbon sinks, a new study found ...
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Buenaventura to advance $2.7bn mine project with water deal in Peru
The project will first meet the water needs of the Locuto community in Tambogrande before beginning mining operations.
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Peru's Buenaventura seeks to unlock $2.7 billion mine project with water deal
LIMA, March 25 (Reuters) - Buenaventura, one of Peru's largest mining firms, signed a water concession with the government on Tuesday in a bid to unlock the development of a major copper project at a ...
The amount of fresh water available for lithium mining is vastly overestimated, hydrologists warn
New research into lithium mining in the "Lithium Triangle" of Chile, Argentina and Bolivia—source of more than half of the ...
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A New Balkan Dystopia: Lithium Mines and Migrant Camps?
In this context, future generations of Serbs, Bosniaks, and Macedonians are being offered two “promising” career paths: to work in a lithium mine for a pittance while taking part in the ...
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Buenaventura to advance $2.7bn mine project with water deal in Peru
Peruvian miner Buenaventura Mining Company has signed a concession contract with Peruvian Government agency ProInversión for the El Algarrobo hydro-mining project in Piura, Peru. ProInversión ...