Year: 2014

Mine spill devastates Mexican farmers

Liseth Mendez and Judas Barrios milk two cows covered in a cloud of tiny persistent flies as the sun taints in red the surrounding mountains near a ranch less than a kilometre from the Sonora River.

Grupo México: detrás de una crisis

Cuando el pasado 6 de agosto sobrevino el derrame de 40 mil metros cúbicos de sulfato de cobre acidulado en los ríos Sonora y Bacanuchi, iniciaba una de las vencidas más fuertes del presidente Enrique Peña Nieto con el dueño de una de las dos fuerzas económicas más poderosas del país, Germán Larrea, de Grupo México.

Oceanus Drills 10.5 Meters of 7.4 gpt Gold at Santo Nino in Mexico

Oceanus Resources Corporation is pleased to announce assay results from the recently completed drilling program at the La Lajita property in Durango, Mexico. The program consisted of twenty-one holes totaling 3,002.5 meters of PQ triple tube core (PQ3) diamond drill core at the Santo Nino and Dos Hermanos Prospects.

Aura Silver Explores Around Silver Zone on East Taviche Property, Mexico and Provides an Update on Greyhound, NU

Aura Silver Resources Inc. is pleased to provide an update on recent activities on its East Taviche property in Oaxaca State, Mexico and its Greyhound property in Nunavut, Canada. These activities include exploration and reconnaissance work recently initiated on East Taviche, as well as an initial drill program by Aura Silver’s option agreement partner Agnico Eagle Mines Limited at Greyhound.

Gold Potential for Cascada Upgrade

Azure Minerals Limited is pleased to report that it has received final assays for all holes from the recently completed exploration drilling program at the Company’s 100%-owned Cascada deposit.

Catalyst Copper Announces Closing of Non-Brokered Private Placement and Appointment of Officers

Catalyst Copper Corp. announces that further to its news release dated August 29, 2014, it has closed its non-brokered private placement of 2,100,000 units at a price of $0.30 per unit for gross proceeds of $630,000. Each unit consists of one common share and one full common share purchase warrant. Each whole common share purchase warrant will be exercisable at $0.40 per common share until September 15, 2017. The securities issued in connection with this private placement are subject to a four month statutory hold period expiring on January 16, 2015. Proceeds will be used for general working capital and to explore other potential opportunities.

Arian Silver Corporation: Significant Progress at San José Processing Plant

Arian Silver Corporation, a silver exploration, development and production company with a focus on projects in the silver belt of Zacatecas, Mexico, reports that it continues to make excellent progress on the refurbishment and reassembly of the processing plant at the Company’s San José project site.

Grupo México deposita 500 millones para atender el derrame al río Sonora

La mañana de este lunes, Grupo México depositará los primeros 500 millones de pesos del Fideicomiso creado para atender la emergencia por el mayor desastre ecológico en la historia de la minería nacional, afirmó Guillermo Haro Bélchez, fiscal de la Procuraduría Federal de Protección al Ambiente (Profepa).

Goldcorp invertirá USD 480 millones para aumentar producción en México

La minera canadiense Goldcorp tendría contemplado invertir USD 480 millones en México durante este año, para aumentar en un 30% su producción de oro; señala una información del diario NTR Zacatecas. La inversión anunciada supone un aumento de un 37% respecto del año anterior, cuando la inversión llegó a USD 350 millones en el país.

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