Peruvian customs officials have seized a record-breaking shipment of illegal mercury, exposing a cross-border smuggling ...

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.

Indigenous and rural communities from Peru's northern Amazon have filed a formal complaint against the government for failing to curb illegal gold mining in the Nanay River basin.

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 ...

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 ...

Indigenous and rural communities along the Nanay River in Peru’s northern Amazon filed a complaint on Friday accusing the government of failing to stop illegal gold mining that is contaminating ...

We’ll have to live with this if the Peruvian state does nothing,” he told The Associated Press, citing the example of Peru’s southern region of Madre de Dios, long plagued by illegal mining.