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Type. Fire. Cause. Short circuit. Deaths. 27. On 6 May 2023, a fire broke out in the La Esperanza gold mine in Yanaquihua District, Condesuyos Province, Peru leaving at least 27 dead. The fire was the country's deadliest mining accident since 2000. [ 1][ 2][ 3]
In northern Peru, the World Bank's business-lending arm is part owner of the Yanacocha gold mine, accused by impoverished farming communities of despoiling their land in pursuit of the precious ore. The bank and IFC have stepped up investments in projects deemed to have a high risk of serious and environment damage, including oil pipelines, mines and even coal-fired power plants, an ...
Nine workers were killed and 10 others gravely injured in the latest attack where men armed with explosives raided and took hostages at a mine belonging to Poderosa , one of Peru's top gold producers.
Yanacocha ( Cajamarca Quechua: yana = "black, dark", qucha = "lake, puddle, pond, lagoon") [ 1] is a gold mine in the Cajamarca region of the Northern Highlands of Peru. [ 2] Considered to be the fourth largest gold mine in the world, it produced 0.97 million ounces of gold in 2014. [ 3] The 251-square kilometer open pit mine is situated about ...
Sican tumi, or ceremonial knife, Peru, 850–1500 CE. Metallurgy in pre-Columbian America is the extraction, purification and alloying of metals and metal crafting by Indigenous peoples of the Americas prior to European contact in the late 15th century. Indigenous Americans had been using native metals from ancient times, with recent finds of ...
Peru produced 99.7 million fine grams of gold in 2023, 2.8% higher than the previous year. ... Mining is key to Peru's economy, with 60% of the Andean nation's exports coming from the mining ...
At least seven workers at a small gold mine in southern Peru have died in what is believed to be an accident, local police reported on Thursday. The victims' bodies were discovered 1.5 km (0.93 ...
Tahoe Resources Inc. was a mining company and intermediate precious metals producer with silver and gold mines in Canada, Guatemala and Peru. It was founded in Vancouver, British Columbia by Kevin McArthur, former CEO of Glamis Gold and Goldcorp. Incorporated in British Columbia, Canada, the company's U.S. headquarters is located in Reno, Nevada .