Hello, I'm Vashalas Sri Pathma and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. Coming up,

the mining boom has brought jobs and prosperity to countries in the developing world, but at what

cost? I was on the farm when they killed him. I was listening to the news on the radio when they said his name.

I didn't believe they'd killed him.

I thought maybe he had just been injured.

I didn't think he could be dead.

So is it inevitable that this trillion-dollar industry

will bring controversy and conflict in some of the world's poorest countries?

If the world was to abandon mining investment in Africa or Latin America

and concentrate only on Australia and Canada, say that would be a great loss to developing countries

who often really rely on those revenues.

That's all in Business Daily from the BBC.

Many of the world's mining companies call South America home.

The continent has profited from a global mining boom, which has seen the industry expand, bringing jobs to local communities.

But those jobs and economic prosperity has come at a cost, both social and environmental.

In Peru, for example, environmental regulations for large and medium-sized mining companies

have been relaxed in a bid to attract more investment. But not everyone is happy about this.

Widespread protests in the south of the country have led to several deaths.

Grace Livingston has this report now from Espinaar in southern Peru.

This is a protest march in the mining town of Espina, in the high plains of the Andes Mountains.

The people on this march say the big local copper mine is polluting their fresh water,

their rivers, their streams and their soil.

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