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More than 240 police officers moved to the town of Algamarca together with representatives of the Prosecutors Office of Environmental Matters, Sunat and MinemHard blow to illegal mining. As part of the Peruvian governments commitments to face this illegal activity, this Monday, August 18, an operation was carried out in the town of Algamarca, District of Cachachi, Cajabamba Province, Cajamarca region, where it was possible to seize more than 92 million soles in material for these illegal work.
The intervention was carried out with the participation of 240 troops from the different Directorates of the PNP, provincial deputy prosecutors of the Specialized Prosecutors in Environmental Matters, 3 mining specialists representatives of the General Directorate of Mining Formalization of the Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem) and 20 Supervisors of the Management of Chemical Supplies and Sunats controlled assets.
During police operations and after a tour of the area of action, it was possible to identify different spaces enabled for underground mining work (undercut) aimed at the exploitation and extraction of minerals, duly conditioned with its own instruments for exploitation, as well as the enable of camps that facilitate the permanence of people dedicated to these illegal activities. Gross mineral was evidenced exploited, underground water collection, goods, equipment, mining instruments, hydrocarbon, chemical supplies, explosive material and others.
Thus, after being corroborated by the participating authorities of the Minem and the Prosecutors Office, and according to their powers in protection to DL No. 1100, the execution of the interdiction actions on the total assets was arranged.
Subsequently, police personnel of the division against illegal mining (divcomin) proceeded to execute the interdiction actions with the destruction and uselessness of what is described and adapting the corresponding security measures.
In this way, the Government reaffirms its commitment to fight frontally against illegal mining, an activity that predates the environment, puts at risk the safety of communities and feeds illicit economies, through firm and coordinated actions between the National Police, the Public Ministry and the competent sectors.
