Illegal mining in Peru is worth more than $ 900 million do not pay taxes and royalties
■ Illegal mining is worth more than $ 900 million per year not paying taxes, royalties and fees generated even less benefit of the country and regions, reported the president of the Mining Committee of the National Society of Mining, Petroleum and Energy ( SNMPE), Eva Arias.En this regard, said the SNMPE supports the government's political decision to deal with illegal mining that is spreading dangerously across the country, causing serious environmental, social and economic.
"The intervention of the Armed Forces and National Police in Mother of God was necessary because it is one of the regions hardest hit by illegal mining has already destroyed more than 150 thousand hectares of forests and polluted rivers of the Amazon" said.
He said that the Peruvian State is facing a subsistence mining but the organizations that fund illegal activities of an illegal mining in their path leaving only destruction.
Sadly noted that illegal mining today is done in 13 regions, which include Madre de Dios, Piura, La Libertad, Puno, Ica, Cusco and Arequipa.
"The state has the challenge of controlling this illegal activity not only because it breaks the law but to protect biodiversity" he said.
In that sense, Arias said in Tambogrande (Piura), which years ago prevented the installation of a formal mining company, has now become a dangerous hotbed of illegal mining in which they operate more than 15,000 informal miners.
"Where are those pseudo-environmentalists, why now do not go to defend the valley and condemn the destructive action of illegal mining in the country?" He said.
He said the fight against illegal in Peru have to be up front because, in addition to military police operations in the case of illegal mining to destroy the illegal dredging is necessary to control and / or cutting the supply of inputs such as mercury and fuels.
It also considered that you must identify and punish those collectors and buyers of illicit production, as well as financiers.
He highlighted the efforts it is making the Ministry of Environment (Minam) to eradicate illegal mining and to encourage formalization of informal miners.
In this context, suggested that governments should strengthen regional human resources and financial resources to efficiently address the problem of illegal mining, a song that was submitted as part of the country's decentralization process.
It also called upon the informal miners to take advantage of formalized programs for their activities that the State has been promoting for several years.
