By Alek Buttermann Peru’s mining sector is at a critical crossroads as debates surrounding the Registro Integral de ...

Peru's Congress passed late on Friday passed an extension to a scheme allowing temporary permits to be given to small-scale ...

Peru's Congress removed Energy and Mines minister Romulo Mucho from his post on Tuesday as protesters from small-scale miners ...

Peru's Congress extended a controversial permit scheme, REINFO, for six months. The system allows informal miners to work ...

Peru is taking steps to regulate illegal gold mining by proposing a bill aimed at formalizing miners. Protests erupted as ...

The Peruvian Congress has approved an extension of the formalization process for small-scale and artisanal mining, which has ...

The program, known as REINFO, started in 2012 and gave workers a temporary permit while they waited to be formalized. REINFO has been extended several times and currently has 85,000 registered ...

Thousands of small-scale miners in Peru blocked roads and camped outside Congress on Monday to demand extension of a program ...

Legislators moved forward a bill proposed earlier in the day by the Energy and Mining Legislative Committee to extend for six months a registry called REINFO, which allows small-scale miners to ...

Throughout the south, other protesters set up roadblocks. REINFO is currently set to expire on Dec. 31 and Mucho's office last week sent a bill to Congress to set a six-month period after that ...

Hundreds of thousands of Peruvians work in informal mines, mainly extracting gold, under the umbrella of a mechanism known as Reinfo. Critics say Reinfo has become a cover for illicit economies.