saveplanetearth: Peruvians take to the streets in Lima to protest mine developments @ The Star The National March for Water and Life, as their journey became known, was the latest salvo in a series of fierce protests against the proposed Conga mine, a $5 billion gold and copper project in the heart of Cajamarca.The joint project between Denver-based Newmont Mining Corp. and Peru’s Buenaventura, if allowed to go ahead, would be the biggest-ever investment in a Peruvian mining operation. An expansion of the companies’ Yanacocha gold mine, also in Cajamarca, the project aims to help Newmont meet its goal of producing 7 million ounces of gold and 400 million pounds of copper by 2017.The thousands of protesters who packed Lima’s downtown core called on the government of President Ollanta Humala to cancel the project over fears the mine’s tailing ponds and reservoirs would pollute local water supplies. (…)

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Peruvians take to the streets in Lima to protest mine developments @ The Star

The National March for Water and Life, as their journey became known, was the latest salvo in a series of fierce protests against the proposed Conga mine, a $5 billion gold and copper project in the heart of Cajamarca.

The joint project between Denver-based Newmont Mining Corp. and Peru’s Buenaventura, if allowed to go ahead, would be the biggest-ever investment in a Peruvian mining operation. An expansion of the companies’ Yanacocha gold mine, also in Cajamarca, the project aims to help Newmont meet its goal of producing 7 million ounces of gold and 400 million pounds of copper by 2017.

The thousands of protesters who packed Lima’s downtown core called on the government of President Ollanta Humala to cancel the project over fears the mine’s tailing ponds and reservoirs would pollute local water supplies. (…)

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