Miners End Strike at Major Gold Site
From Times Wire Reports
Workers at Latin America’s biggest gold mine, Yanacocha, ended a brief strike over a demand for better benefits at a site that has been a target of anti-mining anger by Peruvian environmentalists and poor farmers.
Workers had walked off the job starting Saturday, calling for improved health, education and housing benefits at the mine, which is controlled by Denver-based Newmont Mining Corp. and Peru’s Buenaventura.
The work stoppage was the latest to hit Peru’s mining industry.
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