LIMA (Reuters) -Peru’s government has excluded 50,500 informal miners from a temporary program that would allow them to continue operations, the minister of energy and mines said on Friday.
Only 30,500 small-scale miners will remain in the program, called REINFO, to seek formalization and the government will reinforce its efforts against illegal miners, minister Jorge Montero told a local radio station.
(Reporting by Marco Aquino; Editing by ALexander Villegas)
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