Environment Minister: Informal mining costs Madre de Dios millions in royalties

Peru’s Environment Minister, Antonio Brack, said Friday the Amazon’s Madre de Dios department is losing millions of dollars in royalties each year due to informal mining. The mining is also causing heavy metal contamination in the region’s waterways. Brack said that calculations by state tax regulator Sunat show that Madre de Dios should have collected about [...]