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Economy & Business - August 2025

PERU: Gov’t announces end to mining formalisation programme

Informal miners have been intermittently blockading key transportation routes in Peru since late June, targeting the Southern Mining Corridor – a network of highways that links mines in the highland areas of the country with coastal shipping facilities at Matarani and other ports. The protests are a response to the announcement from Mining and Energy Minister Jorge Montero that the Registro Integral de Formalización Minera (Reinfo) formalisation scheme would only be extended for a final six months, and that as of December 2025 it would be replaced by a proposed new law governing small-scale and artisanal mining, known as the Ley MAPE.

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