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The Mexican Mining Chamber (Camimex) opposes the ban on open-pit mining, saying such a prohibition would cause a 1% contraction in the country's GDP and threaten some 200,000 jobs.
Mexico's miners on Wednesday asked the U.S. government to consider their sector in talks over the reopening of key areas of the Mexican and U.S. economies once quarantine measures imposed over the ...
In 2023, mining in Mexico represented 2.4% of the nation's gross domestic product, and 8.2% of Mexico's industrial GDP.The mining sector employed 350,000 people in 2020, and generated US$1.5 billion in direct government tax revenue, and an additional US$1.84 billion of government revenue from exports of mined natural resources.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico's Senate on Thursday passed a measure to abolish the autonomous bodies that regulate some economic sectors and ensure government transparency, a reform that has ...
The deposit that the mine is on has been used to mine gold, copper and platinum for decades, before being operated by Caracol Mining Company from 2003 until 2006 [5] to mine antimony and baryte. [6] Barite grinding mill. Caracol Mining Company sold their assets to Blackfire Exploration Mexico, [5] operated by brothers Brad and Brent Willis from ...
In early May 2023, the Senate passed with 66 votes in favor and none in opposition, a new law regulating the mining sector. [105] According to Senator Napoleón Gómez Urrutia , the law is supposed to curtail privileges the sector enjoys, since the last law concerning mining regulation passed in 1992, which relaxed laws on the sector. [105]
Mexican Network of People Affected by Mining (Spanish: Red Mexicana de Afectados por la Minería, REMA) [1] is a Mexican group that campaigns for political change and ecological conservation [2] and against open-pit mining. [3] Two founders of the group were murdered within two years of the organization being founded.
Mexico is pursuing a criminal complaint against the country's biggest copper producer seeking to force a new remediation effort for a toxic mine spill in the northern state of Sonora nine years ...