TRUJILLO, Peru (Reuters) - Peruvian mining sector worker Frank Monzón was aware of the risks, but the lure of gold deep in the Andean rock of northern Pataz province outweighed the danger. Now he and ...

Thirteen bodies pulled from under a mine tunnel in northern Peru have set in motion a government crackdown that reflects a wider dilemma playing out across the world's mineral-rich regions. From ...

Mining in Pataz in Peru's north will be suspended for 30 days, the country's President Dina Boluarte said on Monday. She made the announcement after the bodies of 13 security guards working at a gold ...

Peru is assigning the military with the task of regaining control of a mineral-rich area of the country’s northern highlands after 13 gold-mine workers were kidnapped and murdered. Army troops who ...

The mayor of Pataz province in northern Peru, Aldo Carlos Mariño, stated on Tuesday that President Dina Boluarte privately promised a full investigation into the killing of 13 mine workers but ...

LIMA, May 15 (Reuters) - Peru's interior ministry said on Thursday that a suspect in the killing of 13 miners in the northern district of Pataz has been arrested in Colombia. The ministry said in a ...

An Indigenous community in the heart of the Peruvian Andes is doing what most of its peers in mineral-rich areas around the world aren’t: mining and profiting from their ancestral lands. There, more ...

TRUJILLO, Peru — Peruvianas aware of the risks, but the lure of gold deep in the Andean rock of northern Pataz province outweighed the danger. Now he and 12 others are dead in one of the country's ...

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