Relationships: Community, Environment and Artisan Mining in Andean Areas of the Apurímac Region, Peru, 2024.

The purpose was to describe the mining-environmental community relations in the Andean Apurimac region of Peru. The type of research was basic, non-experimental design of concurrent triangulation, ex post facto scope. The sample consisted of: interviews with community authorities and active members of artisanal mining. Community relations present a diverse reality in the events that occurred, limited to: a) the commitment assumed by the parties that is related to exhausting the exploited vein; b) the management of the territory and the land acquisition policy, subject to the distribution of the communal territory with respect to the natural resources they possess and the price offer for the land; c) the access to easements that is conditioned to the exploitation capacity and the participation agreements with communal labor; d) the social prevention and health policies, linked to compliance with the conditions and commitment of the mining company, with respect to safety and health at work, in addition to the economic compensation for unskilled labor; e) the economic and environmental impact, the first related to the change and improvement in the family income of the community member and the second with respect to limiting the reconversion of the land, minimizing the alteration of the traditional infrastructure and protecting the outcrops of water resources, and f) the institutional support of the sector through the permissible quasi-formal instrument REINFO. Conclusion: agreements and commitments are like a guitar string, in the event of non-compliance or alteration by one of the parties; this triggers the decision to break the harmony, mistrust is sharpened, dialogue is limited; the community develops mild to extreme forceful actions to claim the commitments, going as far as destroying property and physically attacking the mining company. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]