(Bloomberg) -- Miners in Peru began their first national strike in three years and threatened to disrupt global supplies of metals such as copper, zinc and gold after weekend talks with the government failed.
Workers at two of Southern Copper Corp. mines and zinc producer Volcan Cia. Minera SA began the strike at 1 a.m. New York time today, Mining Federation Secretary General Luis Castillo said in a phone interview from Lima. Some 70 unions including those at Newmont Mining Corp.'s Yanacocha gold mine and Doe Run Resources Corp.'s La Oroya poly-metallic smelter may follow, the union said.
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