El secretario de Economía, Ildefonso Guajardo, se comprometió con la cúpula del sector privado a garantizar una mayor seguridad al sector minero del país, después del millonario robo de oro en una mina al norte del país durante la semana pasada y confirmó la intervención de la Gendarmería para establecer acciones estratégicas, claras y contundentes en temas específicos.
El volumen mundial fue de 868 millones de onzas; la minera mexicana produjo 45 millones, y en producción primaria lidera a las mineras Coeur Mining y Hostchild Mining y Hecla.
J.D. Poliquin, chairman of Almaden stated, Todays holes once again show the continuity of this part of the Ixtaca deposit. The drilling program, designed to upgrade the confidence and size of our resource base is now complete. We are now focussed on developing the Ixtaca deposit into a significant precious metals producer in Mexico and are currently busy on site with engineering related drilling.
Gold Resource Corporation today announced the discovery of new high grade polymetallic veins at its Arista deposit, including a newly discovered vein referred to as “Viridiana,” with drill intercepts of 7.04 meters grading 9.29 grams per tonne (g/t) gold and 957 g/t silver.
The pipes have gone silent. Gone is the hum of water flowing through them to the worlds second-largest copper mine, just south of the U.S. border. Instead, in the normally empty desert here, tents and buses line the highway. Dust and smoke from cooking fires fill the air while hundreds of people listen to speeches and discuss the days events.
“Responding to numerous media reports, I want to make it perfectly clear, that neither I nor any member of McEwen Mining’s management team in Canada or in Mexico have had any regular contact with, or have any relationship with, cartel members.
Milner Consolidated Silver Mines Ltd. through its wholly-owned Mexican subsidiary has applied to the “Direccion de Concesiones y Asignaciones Mineras” to have the title to its San Lucas Concession cancelled.
Manuel Reyes, president of the Mexican Association of Mining Engineers, said that cartels have complicated the situation of both companies and employees.
No sólo las empresas mineras extranjeras se enfrentan a las amenazas por parte de grupos del crimen organizado, también las mineras mexicanas y sus empleados denuncian la creciente inseguridad que se vive en el país, revela el diario estadounidense The Wall Street Journal.
The chief executive of McEwen Mining is beefing up security at the Canadian company’s mine refinery in Mexico to make it as “impenetrable” as Fort Knox after a band of masked gunmen made off with $8.5 million in gold.
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