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Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum has announced a review of a controversial bill to ban open-pit mining. Congress approved the bill in July after debating balancing environmental protection ...
A committee in Mexico's lower house of Congress approved two constitutional reforms that would prohibit open-pit mining and fracking, as well as restrict the use of genetically modified corn. The ...
It is an open pit operation which began commercial operations in March 2010, [3] [4] but still managed to produce 13,952,600 ounces of silver that year. [1] Estimated reserves for the Peñasquito Mine are 17.82 million oz of gold , 1,070.1 million oz of silver, 3,214 tons of lead and 7,098 million tons of zinc .
Cananea Copper Mine, Sonora, Mexico. Mining in Mexico represented 2.4% of the nation's gross domestic product in 2023 and employed 350,000 people in 2020. Mexico is the world's largest producer of silver and a globally significant producer of gold, copper and zinc. In 2020, Mexico produced the world's 12th largest volume of minerals by value.
The Buenavista mine, historically known as the Cananea copper mine, is a large open pit copper mine located in the north-west of Mexico in Cananea, Sonora. It lies 35 km (22 mi) south of the international border near Nogales, Arizona. Buenavista mine represents one of the largest copper reserves in Mexico and in the world.
The Chino Mine ("Chino" is Spanish for the "Chinese"), also known as the Santa Rita mine or Santa Rita del Cobre, is an American open-pit porphyry copper mine located in the town of Santa Rita, New Mexico 15 miles (24 km) east of Silver City.
The Mulatos mine is an open-pit [1] [2] gold mine, located in Sahuaripa, Sonora, Mexico. [3] The state of Sonora produced 33% Mexico's total gold production in 2019. [4] It is one of two mines owned by Alamos Gold in the state of Sonora, the other being El Chanate. [5] The mine is operated by the company's local subsidiary Minas de Oro Nacional ...
El Chanate is an open-pit gold mine located in the Altar Municipality of Sonora, [3] close to the Mexico–United States border, [4] in the northwest of Sonora, Mexico that is owned by Canadian corporation Alamos Gold. [4] The mine covers 4,618 hectares and is located around a fault, above sedimentary and volcanic rocks.