Foreign Engineers, Geologist To Review Peru's $4.8bn Conga Gold/Copper Project EIS

However, Cajamarca Regional Governor Gregorio Santos, who led protests that forced the suspension of the Conga project in the northern Cajamarca highlands, contends mining project planning in the region by Newmont, Anglo American, Rio Tinto, and China Minmetals are not environmentally viable. "All these mining projects are located in the fragile watersheds so they're too complicated to be viable," he said.
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