Mining News Watch #16

Mining News Watch #16 covers the time period March 17- June 10, 2015 Top Stories The Peruvian government announced in May that new complementary regulations for the formalization process will be released in August. To date, only 16 permits have been issued for formalized mining, affecting just 631 of the 58,835 miners that started the process […]


Image #3: Detection of New (Logging?) Roads in The Peruvian Amazon

Image of the Week #3 shows the rapid proliferation of two new road networks in the northern Peruvian Amazon (Department of Loreto). Most notably, it highlights the construction of nearly 150 km of new roads, possibly illegal logging roads, through mostly primary forest between 2013 and 2014. One of the roads is within the buffer […]


Mining News Watch #15

Top Stories Antonio Fernández Jeri has been appointed as the new High Commissioner of Mining Formalization and the Interdiction of Illegal Mining. The Amazon Conservation Association issued a new map showing that gold mining-driven deforestation grew by 226.5 hectares (560 acres) between October 2014 and February 2015 in the buffer zone of the Tambopata National […]


Mining News Watch #14

Top Stories The new regional president of Madre de Dios and former mining leader, Luis Otsuka, met with President Ollanta Humala to begin discussions of key mining-related issues. To combat the exportation of illegal gold from Peru to other countries, a bill has been sent to Peruvian Congress that calls for increased documentation and verification […]


Mining News Watch #13

Top Stories Luis Otsuka, mining leader and critic of the national mining formalization strategy, officially won the election for regional president of Madre de Dios. Three more small-scale mining operations have completed the six-step formalization process, bringing the total formalized operations nationwide to eight. All eight are in the department of Puno. The efficacy of […]