Peru grants concessions that allow mining giants to explore huge swaths of territory for decades before starting production.

Canadian miner Hudbay Minerals said on Tuesday it has resumed operations at its Constancia mine in Peru, weeks after halting ...

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 ...

The Andean Community has ordered Peru to take immediate action against illegal gold mining and mercury trafficking. The ...

Tracking global production, we rank the world’s top 20 copper mines for the first half of 2025, measured in kilotonnes (kt).

A Catholic bishop in Peru’s Amazon is warning that mercury from illegal gold mining is contaminating rivers, fish and people ...

Peru is pursuing major investments from Saudi Arabia and U.S. oil giant Chevron to develop its mining and energy resources, ...

LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's sprawling Antamina copper mine is slowly restarting operations, a source close to the company said on Thursday, after an accident earlier this week left an employee dead and ...

Chile and Peru have announced the launch of "Project 51," an alliance aimed at enabling the two countries to supply 51% of the world's copper within 15 years.

Copper miners with productive assets have much to gain as supply and demand tighten. In May 2024, the copper price hit a new all-time high of US$10,954 per metric ton (MT) on the London Metal Exchange ...

This reactivation will encompass at least 80% of Peru's mining production capacity, according to the SNMPE. Peru's mining sector contracted 42.29% in April, according to figures from national ...

Peru is pursuing major investments from Saudi Arabia and US oil giant Chevron to develop its mining and energy resources, part of a broad strategy to revitalise the sector, a top minister said. The ...