Human rights court orders Peru to pay damages to mining town
The court ruled the state failed to comply with its duty to regulate and supervise La Oroya Metallurgical Complex, which was active for nearly a century.
Copper production in Peru, the world’s No. 2 producer of the red metal, slipped 1.2% in January from the same month the year earlier to some 205,375 metric tons, the Andean nation’s mines and energy ministry said on Tuesday.
The new figures come after a 17% drop in output from MMG’s Las Bambas mine and a 13.4% fall from Freeport-McMoRan’s Cerro Verde mine.
That was below December’s output of around 255,000 tons, according to ministry data.
Peru’s copper production should reach 3 million tons this year after hitting 2.76 million tons in 2023, Mining Minister Romulo Mucho said earlier this month.
(By Marco Aquino; Editing by Aida Pelaez-Fernández and Anthony Esposito)
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