On a cold day in January, a group of angry indigenous communities in Peru's copper-rich Andes was driving a hard bargain with the government and Chinese mining firm MMG Ltd around a makeshift negotiating table on a covered soccer pitch.
Antapaccay and the huge Antamina mine - have weighed on Hong Kong-listed MMG, an Australia-based firm controlled by Chinese state-owned mining giant China Minmetals Corporation.Since Las Bambas opened in 2016, more than a dozen Andean community groups have blocked the dusty 400 kilometer-long "mining corridor" road that runs past it, citing pollution and a lack of social investment despite the huge mineral wealth. Las Bambas has suffered some 430 days of blockades in total.
"After the Ccapacmarca meeting, there's a risk will block," one of the Las Bambas sources said on Tuesday. Conflicts are now spreading farther from the mine each year as more communities near the transport road seek compensation. MMG is now making pre-emptive plans to address hypothetical blockades as much as a four hours' drive away, two company sources said.
"This is a big risk we are taking because they are not businessmen," the Las Bambas executive said, adding that the mine's leadership worried whether local communities would be able to fulfill the trucking contracts.Meanwhile, Las Bambas has been quietly working with the regional government of Apurimac to build a new road that would bypass unruly Chumbivilcas in the first place - or at least provide an alternative in case of blockades, Governor Baltazar Lantaron told Reuters.
At a meeting with government negotiators in December, one community bloc said it would leave if another was allowed to stay. Officials brokered a truce, but it fell apart weeks later when factions split off from the Chumbivilcas Defense Front.In another January meeting, also attended by Reuters, then-Prime Minister Mirtha Vasquez visited Ccapacmarca and appeared to have sealed an elusive deal with the community.
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