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Peru reinforces embattled mining region

Associated Press | March 15, 2012 | 8:02 pm Precious Metals Europe Latin America Gold 

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru's government says it's sending 1,000 police reinforcements to an Amazon basin capital where three people were killed during rioting by illegal gold miners.

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