Category: Exploration and Development

Minerales en aguas profundas, otro filón de México

México posee zonas de abundantes depósitos de minerales en su lecho marino, lo que despertó ya el interés de empresas transnacionales por realizar las primeras explotaciones de estos recursos, esto marcará el inicio de la transición de la actividad minera de la tierra al mar.

SilverCrest Announces Surface Drilling Results at Santa Elena Mine

SilverCrest Mines Inc. is pleased to announce results of the exploration and resource expansion drilling program completed in late 2014 at the 100% owned Santa Elena Mine in Sonora, Mexico. Twenty-one drill holes, totalling 9,393 metres were completed to explore the western and eastern extensions of the Santa Elena Main Mineralized Zone…

Arian Silver Achieves First Concentrate Production at San José

Arian Silver Corporation, a silver exploration, development and mining company focused on silver projects in the silver belt of Zacatecas, Mexico, is pleased to report that first concentrate production has been achieved at its wholly-owned San José project.

Riverside Signs Option to Acquire New Gold Project in Sonora, Mexico and Retains VLP for Market-Making Services

Riverside Resources Inc. is pleased to announce that it has signed an option agreement with Argonaut Gold Inc. to acquire a 100% interest in the Glor Gold Project, located approximately 8 km west of AuRico’s El Chanate Mine in Sonora, Mexico. The Project acquisition and initial mapping and sampling work was completed as part of alliance funded activities through Riverside’s strategic alliance with Hochschild Mining Plc.

Santacruz Silver Rosario Mine Resumes Operations

Santacruz Silver Mining Ltd. is pleased to announce that the Company has received approval from PROFEPA and SEMARNAT (Mexico’s environmental regulatory authorities) to resume operations at its Rosario Mine, located near Charcas, San Luis Potosi. Accordingly, the Company has recommenced operations at its Rosario Mine. The approval was received following completion of the remediation and cleanup of an approximate amount of 2,000 m3 of tailings pulp discharged outside of the Rosario Mine tailings impoundment system on January 2, 2015.

Copper Rebounds as Rains Shut Mines in World’s Biggest Producer

Copper rose as much as 0.6 percent. Some of the world’s largest copper mines were forced to shut down as rains in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile closed roads and flooded towns. Codelco, the world’s biggest copper producer, shut all of its Atacama mines including Chuquicamata and Radomiro Tomic, according to the state-owned company.

Acusan ejidatarios a minera de dañar tierras

Ejidatarios de San Martín, Colón, se manifestaron frente a la empresa minera Peña de Bernal para exigir el pago de indemnización por daños ocasionados a tierras de uso común, ello luego de que acusaron a la compañía de haber realizado la explotación subterránea en seis hectáreas sin el consentimiento de los ejidatarios.

Bacanora Updates Drilling & Activities on the Sonora Lithium Project

BACANORA MINERALS LTD. is pleased to provide an update of activities on its wholly owned La Ventana concession as well as on concessions held by Mexilit S.A. de C.V. and Megalit S.A. de C.V., companies owned 70% by Bacanora and 30% by Rare Earth Minerals PLC in Sonora, Mexico.

Minera Ligada a Zetas pidió a Sener Adjudicación

Una de las empresas mineras que solicitó a la Secretaría de Energía (Sener) la adjudicación directa de contratos para la extracción de gas natural fue señalada en 2012 como colaboradora de personas presuntamente vinculadas con el grupo delictivo de Los Zetas.

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