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LIMA, Peru — A $4.8 billion gold and copper mining project, Peru’s biggest such investment, was suspended Tuesday after increasingly violent protests by highlands peasants who fear for their water supply.
At least 20 people were injured Tuesday in clashes between opponents of the Conga project — of which Denver’s Newmont Mining is majority owner — and police who used firearms, Cajamarca state regional health director Reynaldo Nunez told Canal N television.
