Thirteen miners have been found dead inside a mine in Peru after being kidnapped several days earlier. They were working at a ...

The bodies of 13 workers at a Peruvian gold mine were discovered over the weekend as criminal groups step up a wave of terror over control of the precious metal in the country’s northern highlands.

Peruvian mining sector worker Frank Monzón was aware of the risks, but the lure of gold deep in the Andean rock of northern ...

The murders in early May put the spotlight on increasing violence provoked by a gold rush in Peru’s northern Pataz district.

Peru’s government will create a “mining fund” set to finance incentives for small and artisan miners, the Andean country’s ...

Víctor Zanabria, the commander-in-chief of Peru’s National Police, was accused of protecting informal miners when he was the ...

There are suspicions of police complicity in the massacre, which is bound up with the struggle for control of lucrative gold ...

Element79 Gold (CSE:ELEM) is closely watching the Peruvian government's recent changes to oversight of small-scale and ...

Police in Colombia have arrested a man suspected of being involved in the killing of 13 kidnapped workers at a gold mine in ...

Guards' deaths highlight the rising issue of illegal mining and violence in Peru's Amazonian province of Pataz.

Peruvian gold output is expected to be significantly dented in the coming month due to a mining ban in a northern region of ...

A new analysis of archived satellite imagery has revealed that the growing presence of small-scale mining in the Peruvian ...