The Wall Street Journal's Weekend Section also devotes a paragraph to 'the next king of the high C's.' The Los Angeles Times had their coronation earlier in the week.) After Florez' wonderful performance in January as Almaviva in the Barber of Seville at the Met in New York City, the British papers anticipate his upcoming role in Bellini's La Sonnambula at the Royal Opera House in London which opens tomorrow. (Canada's National Post reprints the Telegraph article.

'Many NGOs support local claims that the waters of the Cajamarca basin which they depend on for subsistence crops and farm animals have been polluted with the cyanide used to extract the gold.' MINE #2: Pan American Silver Corp's press release states that 'Revenue for the year was $39.3 million, 25 per cent greater than for 2000 due to the April start up of the Company's Huaron mine in Peru.' It also stated that 'Projected production from Huaron in 2002 is 4.7 million ounces of silver, 17,000 tonnes of zinc and 12,000 tonnes of lead.' MINE #3: MiningWeb reported on Anglo American and its 'expensing of feasibility costs for the Quellaveco copper project in Peru.' MINE #4: Reuters reports that Teck-Cominco was looking to purchase 'Peru's world-class Bayovar phosphate deposit which the government plans to privatize.'ġ INTERNATIONAL TENOR Today's Telegraph and yesterday's Guardian gush over Peruvian opera super star Juan Diego Florez.

FOUR MINES MINE #1: The BBC reviews the problems involving the Yanacocha mine (pictured) in Cajamarca, 'Latin America's largest and most profitable god mine.' Co-owned by Newmont Mining and a subsidiary of the World Bank, it seems to be setting itself up for a public relations boondoggle.

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