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Reuters: Days after a clash between wildcat miners and police left two dead in eastern Peru, the country's Environment Minister has proposed a law banning dredging equipment used to extract gold from the Amazon river basin.
The law proposed on Thursday aiming "to protect the environment and public health" in Amazonia will likely be debated in Congress next week. It is the latest phase of an assault on illegal mining launched just months before President Alan Garcia's term ends.
Earlier this month, the......
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Peru proposes law to ground wildcat mining tools
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 4th, 2011
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