Southern Copper Corp

Peru’s environmental regulator OEFA has concluded that mining waste from the company’s Cuajone mine did not spill into a river during heavy rains last week.

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The country’s environmental agency OEFA detected a “flow of a greenish solution” into the nearby Torata River in the waste deposit area of the copper mine, located in the Moquegua region.

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