LIMA- Families in Peru that were relocated to make way for MMG Ltd’s huge Las Bambas copper project occupied their former lands inside the mine on Tuesday to press the company for compensation, the country’s ombudsman and a local leader said.
The protest in a remote highland region has not affected operations at the mine, said the community’s vice president, Obispo Huamani, and Artemio Solano, the regional representative of Peru’s ombudsman.
The mine’s vice president of corporate affairs, Domingo Drago, denied anyone had invaded company property.
Las Bambas, which recently started production and cost $7.4 billion to build, is expected to become one of the world’s biggest mines with annual output of about 400,000 tonnes.
It is also expected to propel an economic recovery in Peru this year and help the Andean country become the world’s second biggest copper supplier after Chile.
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