Peru’s gold sales totalled $US2.57 billion ($A2.53 billion) in the first quarter of this year, making the commodity the country’s top export, the National Mining, Petroleum and Energy Society, or SNMPE, says.
Gold accounted for 23 per cent of Peru’s total exports of $US11.38 billion ($A11.19 billion) during the January-March 2012 period, SNMPE gold committee chairman Jose Morales Dasso said in a statement………………………………………..Full Article: Source