Peruvian farmer wins David-and-Goliath battle against US mining giant

The account of Acuña – a subsistence granger from Peru – is a example that eventide the world’s largest companies can be held to invoice by activists As possessor of roughly of the largest and nigh moneymaking aureate mines in the mankind, Newmont Excavation Pot is put-upon to acquiring its own way. Not in Peru though. In a David-and-Goliath engagement, community activists deliver, sol, succeeded in beholding off the institution of a $5bn (£3.8bn) open-caste mine following to a pristine lake. At the inwardness of that struggle is Máxima Acuña de Chaupe , a 47 year-old subsistence husbandman who owns an 60-acre patch just where Newmont’s local joint-venture, Yanacocha , wants to dig.

Acuña’s refusal to liquidize, disdain immense imperativeness and unrelenting threats, has efficaciously stalled the proposed Conga mine. A voice for Newmont has aforesaid that it does not forebode underdeveloped the mine in the foreseeable next.

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