Tag: Roque Benavides

• Tuesday, June 18th 2013 - 07:20 UTC

  Thousands camp in the Peruvian Andes to protect a lake from major gold mining project

  

  Thousands of opponents of a 5 billion dollars gold project of Newmont Mining circled a lake high in the Andes, in Cajamarca province vowing to stop the company from eventually draining it to make way for Peru's most expensive mine.