Turner says it's very difficult to provide hard-and-fast earnings estimates for Northern Peru in these early days.

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The San Martin region in northern Peru used to be best known for drugs and the Shining Path rebels.

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Mining referendum: emotions running high in northern Peru, "Chavistas" involved.

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In Peru the Hallgarten analysts are fans of Northern Peru Copper, whose test bores show a sizable reserve of 7.3 billion pounds of copper and a mine life of 20 years.

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His strategy to promote an Indian uprising in South America and create an "Aymara Nation" which would bring Bolivia, southern Peru and northern Chile together into one single nation for his "Bolivarian Project" is losing support.

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The warm, moisture-laden air brings heavy rainfall and flash flooding to Peru's northern coast, killing villagers and causing havoc to the fragile soils of the desert and of the arid Andean foothills.

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By producing sugarcane-based ethanol in Peru, whose northern coast has an output of 131 tonnes per hectare, compared with the Brazilian average of 72 tonnes, Brazilian companies could gain tariff-free access to the United States.

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He said that using the same method, scientists determined another area that was "ready" for a potentially devastating shaking - northern Chile, close to the border with Peru.

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