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FILE PHOTO: Gregorio Rojas, president of the community Fuerabamba arrives to take part in negotiations with Chinese-owned miner MMG Ltd, the Peruvian government and the Catholic Church aimed at ending a dispute with an indigenous community that has blocked roads to the company's Las Bambas mine, at the Episcopal Conference of Peru, in Lima, Peru April 6, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Romero/File Photo
LIMA (Reuters) -A three-week-long roadblock protest by locals has prevented Las Bambas mine in Peru, run by Australia-based MMG Ltd, from exporting 189,000 tonnes of copper concentrate, a mining association leader said on Tuesday.
Pablo de la Flor, executive director of the National Society of Mining, Oil and Energy, said the blockade of a road in the Cusco region, 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the mine, had lasted 24 days and prevented export of copper concentrate worth $530 million. He warned that the company could start to halt production altogether in the coming days.