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This section presents the principal conclusions of the project “Large-scale Mining and Local Communities” for Peru. The project’s main objective was to analyze the socioeconomic, cultural and environmental relations between large-scale mining companies and local communities, in order to identify practices that lead to sustainable local development. Our analysis, which began in June 1998, focuses on two large mining companies —Yanacocha Mining Company (Minera Yanacocha) and Antamina Mining Company (Minera Antamina)— chosen because of the size of their investments and scope of regional impacts. The project applied specific research strategies for each area.