Manhattan Minerals of Vancouver has big plans for this town in northern Peru’s fruit-producing San Lorenzo valley. The corporation wants to move about one-fourth of Tambogrande’s 25,000 residents so it can dig an open-pit mine in the town and tap 1 million ounces of gold as well as significant quantities of silver, copper and zinc. “Tambogrande has the potential to be the catalyst for an economic renewal in northern Peru,” reads literature issued by the company, which holds extensive exploration rights elsewhere in the district that includes the town. Tambogrande-area residents have their own vision of the future, however; and for the majority of them, it does not include Manhattan Minerals. Since the 1950s, owners of the region’s small and medium... [Log in to read more]