Gold mining in Peru.
The government of Peru The government of Peru, as established by the 1993 Constitution, is a presidential representative democratic republic. Legislative branch
Main article: Congress of Peru
Executive branch
has rejected a Canadian Canadian (kənā`dēən), river, 906 mi (1,458 km) long, rising in NE New Mexico. and flowing E across N Texas and central Oklahoma into the Arkansas River in E Oklahoma. mining
company's proposal to dig an open-pit gold mine where the town of
Tambogrande now stands. Most of the town's 16,000 people had
vociferously opposed the project, which they feared would contaminate con·tam·i·nate
v.
1. To make impure or unclean by contact or mixture.
2. To expose to or permeate with radioactivity.
con·tam·i·nant n. their water and ruin their agricultural economy.
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