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About 40,000 illegal miners ignore Peru’s deadline to formalize status

Cecilia Jamasmie | April 23, 2014 | 4:05 pm Base Metals Precious Metals Europe Latin America Copper Gold Silver 

[caption id="attachment_779611" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Illegal miners clash with police during a protest against a law criminalizing their activities (Photo from archives).[/caption] Peru’s government has began legalizing tens of thousands of informal gold miners this week, in an effort to restrict...

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