The Financial Post reports in its Thursday edition that a Canadian gold mining company sued Peru in the United States as part of efforts to collect $69-million (U.S.) it was awarded over violent protests that halted operations at one of its mines in the South American nation. A Bloomberg dispatch to the Post says Lupaka Gold won the award, which includes interest, last year in an arbitration proceeding that found Peru failed to stop the protests at the company's Invicta mine. The suit filed Feb. 27 in Federal Court in Washington seeks to have a U.S. judge confirm the award. "Lupaka is confident that it will soon be able to begin attaching Peruvian assets anywhere within the United States," the company said Monday. Peru's Finance Ministry said it contacted Lupaka before the filing of the lawsuit to "convey the predisposition to comply with the award, for which it was proposed to hold prompt coordination meetings."