Institutional challenges for mining and sustainability in
Oct 13, 2009#0183;#32;Results Mining and Sustainability Challenges in Peru. Minerals account for 62% of the exports of Peru, and the mining boom of the country has helped foster sustained economic growth, running at 8% growth (per annum) by 2008 ().Fig. 1 illustrates the effects of this growth on the longterm trend of mining concessions. Since 1990, 89% of all of the area ever claimed for mining has been