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In the mining and energy industries, toxic chemical spills have occurred while transporting hazardous chemicals such as cyanide and mercury to mines in several countries including Kyrgyzstan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Australia, Taiwan and the United States.¹ Typically, a mine operator will retain an independent contractor to minimise the liability for chemical spills and to disassociate itself from controversial spills.² This article analyses the administrative, criminal and civil liability of a gold mine operator in Peru, for the mercury spill of an independent trucking company, and provides some recommendations on how best to manage a difficult situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to understand how the context in mining projects influences the corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy to earn a social licence to operate (SLO). This paper also presents a comparative case study analysis of four mining operations in Peru. This analysis was qualitative in nature and is complemented with insights from supplementary key informant interviews and the emerging literature on SLO and CSR. The findings show that mining projects with a complex‐unstable context take considerable effort and a longer process to earn an SLO. In this situation, it is not recommended that companies use either a defensive strategy or compliance. Instead, the company must use strategic and managerial strategies to reduce social conflicts. Also, when the context is low or of moderate uncertainty, it is preferable to use strategic and managerial strategies in order to gain an SLO. Copyright © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the process of involuntary population resettlement related to the relocation and rehabilitation of people, families, groups or communities displaced physically and / or socio-economic, who are located in strategic areas where a project of mining investment is required to be executed. Therefore, in the absence of a regulatory framework for this process in our national law, this paper develops international guidelines established by the World Bank and the Inter- American Development Bank (IDB, through the Operational Policy OP-710 and Operational Policy OP 4.12, respectively; which have been considered by mining companies in order to establish a framework for population resettlement, necessary for the execution of their projects. In this regard, according to a review of the provisions proposed by the Draft Law on promotion and facilitation of resettlement of populations in areas of influence of large mining projects; and those established by Law 29869, Law of population resettlement living in very high unmitigatable risk areas, it is determined that it is necessary to establish a regulatory framework in this regard and that any legislative proposal should have as its main objective the protection of individual rights and groups of the population affected by physical and/ or socio-economic displacement as well as generating positive impacts through sustainable development programs, so as to generate and promote the obtainment of a social license from the population where mining companies operate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It varied the number of works dealing with this topic and generally confusion is caused by the number of systems and the arbitrary use of the names tliajt are identified, which has caused describing under the same name different systems or the same system various labels. Therefore in this paper we reduce the theme of the original domain to the next question: Who originally owned mineral deposits? Without pretend clarify the picture explaining each of the systems because it would lead to an investigation of historical character that is not our goal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the last 20 years, the mining sector in Peru has been experiencing sustained growth. Using census, administrative, nationally and regionally representative data we compare districts in the Peruvian Highlands with a recent mining development with suitable counterfactuals. We find that the new mining activities attract migration inflows, and have some positive effects over educational indicators, and that these impacts, on average, are smaller in districts with lower levels of corporate social expenditure. However, the results of this study suggest that the local potential welfare impact of the mining boom is largely untapped and corporate social responsibility has had a limited role in improving this effect. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ABSTRACT Although numerous scholars have analyzed the effects of natural resource extraction at the national level, few have explored it systematically at the local level. Focusing on Peru, where both mining production and local social protests have greatly increased in recent years and where a new tax has required mining companies to transfer revenue to subnational governments, this study explores the resource curse at the local level. In particular, why do protests arise mostly in the areas of natural resource extraction? Employing subnational data for Peru for the period 2004-9 and LAPOP survey data from 2010, the research confirms previous findings that social conflict is provoked by both the negative externalities of mining and the revenues from the new tax. The article further demonstrates that local bureaucratic capacity is a significant independent variable. Greater subnational bureaucratic capacity can ameliorate the pernicious societal effects of a local resource curse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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