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Bear Creek concession to cancel
LIMA : Peru 's government will cancel a concession for the Canadian firm Bear Creek's Santa Ana project after anti-mi
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Some 5,000 protesters have descended on the south-eastern region of Puno to demand concessions be revoked for mining companies demonstrators say will contaminate their ancestral lands.
The protesters pausing demonstrations so voting could take place in the remote region some 1,385 kilometers (860 miles) from Lima, but have since resumed.
Copyright Reuters, 2011