The contested three states make up $23 billion of mining investment,
more than a third of the $61 billion committed up to 2020, according to
the Energy and Mines Ministry.
Peru’s extractive industries have been integral in slashing poverty
from 60 percent in 2004 to 24 percent in 2013, and buoying related
sectors.
But they remain a source of great controversy, through environmental
contamination and the displacement of indigenous communities.
http://www.worldbulletin.net/news/145733/new-peru-state-governors-could-stall-mega-mines
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