Peruvian mining volumes continue to grow as new president takes helm

The Peruvian mining industry is expected to spur renewed growth in the country as output grows, prices stabilise and revive, several speakers told a recent Peruvian-Canadian Chamber of Commerce economic outlook seminar. The recent Peruvian election was so close that the winner Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, scraped past his rival Keiko Fujimori with just 39 000 votes. That was a margin of 0.2% in an election with 18-million votes cast.