About 40,000 illegal miners ignore Peru’s deadline to formalize status

Over the past five years unregulated mineral extraction in the South American nation, especially gold mining, became an industry of its own, to the point experts calculated it was bringing more profit into the country than drug trafficking.

The activity has also led to violence, pollution and the destruction of over 40,000 hectares of the country's Amazonic rainforest.

In response to those challenges, Peru’s government launched in 2012 a program to incorporate illegal and informal miners into the system by April 2014
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