Gold and silver mines in Mexico have been forced to make extortion payments, reports sayFacebook Twitter Comments Print Email By Greg Norman FOXBusinessVideo Mexico is now deploying guards equipped with assault rifles to help protect mining companies from attacks by drug cartels. The government ...
During his 35 years in power, Mexico was transformed from a one-city, backwater colony into a booming country built on foreign investment, increased industry, and political repression. However, during Santa Anna’s tenure, only small minorities accumulated wealth while the rest of the country suf...
The mineralisation at the Guanajuato and San Ignacio mines occur as fissure-hosted low-sulphidation epithermal gold-silver-bearing quartz veins and stockwork. The mineralisation at Guanajuato occurs along regional scale faults of which the Veta Madre is the largest with a strike length of approximate...
“Lower Mine”. It is one of twin towns located in an area of silver and gold mines (reales, in Spanish). The other town is called Real de Arriba, and still conserves that name. Real de Abajo must have felt uncomfortable all its life with its lowlier designation and quickly adopted th...
Mexico has many large open-pit mines, such as Southern Copper's Buenavista copper mine, Newmont's Peñasquito, Fresnillo's two gold and silver mines, and several other mines of Grupo Industriale de Penoles. The viability of some projects hinges on open-pit plans, such as the partnership be...
The rocks here contain between 0.5 and 0.8 grams of gold per ton of ore. Los Filos is expected to yield 60 million metric tons of gold ore over the next 20 years, as well as some ancillary silver, lead and zinc. The mining operation will require investments of $1 billion over the ...
VANCOUVER-BASED Fortuna Silver Mines announced that it has achieved commercial production at its San Jose silver-gold mine in Oaxaca, Mexico. The mine is expected to produce 16.21 (520,000 oz) of silver and 143 kg (4,600 oz) of gold this year and 52.81 (1.7 million oz) of silver and...
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Hard work, hard rock and mind the flying chips! Colima artisans from Aprecio por México come to learn new techniques. A VISIT TO THE GHOST TOWN OF AMPARO Amparo was home to some of Mexico's richest gold and silver mines, but it had its dark side... ...
Hard work, hard rock and mind the flying chips! Colima artisans from Aprecio por México come to learn new techniques. A VISIT TO THE GHOST TOWN OF AMPARO Amparo was home to some of Mexico's richest gold and silver mines, but it had its dark side... ...