Copper exports from the port of Matarani have resumed after anti-mining protests that had blocked key infrastructure in the country’s southern copper belt eased over the weekend, a spokeswoman for the port operator said on Tuesday.
Shipments from four mines that produce about half of Peru’s copper – Freeport-McMoRan’s Cerro Verde deposit, MMG’s Las Bambas, Glencore’s Antapaccay and Hudbay Mineral’s Constancia – had been suspended for nearly three weeks due to the unrest.