Madre de DiosA Facebook post offered permitted mining land to would-be partners.
Peru’s registry meant to formalise informal miners gives illegal operations legal cover, experts say.
A permit holder lets miners work his land for a percentage, and they extract gold with hydraulic pumps and mercury.
The post sat in Facebook groups for La Pampa, a gold boom town built by wildcat miners.
How each outlet framed it
- InSight Crime leans critical
- reconstructs undercover infiltration of Facebook mining networks; reveals REINFO formalization pathway enabling illegal permit trade
Sources: InSight Crime