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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 ...
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.
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 ...
The union undertook industrial action in March 2022, after unsuccessful requests for a wage rise. [4] Union members accused Excellon Resources subsidiary Servicios San Pedro of harassment. [ 5 ] At the time the company reported draining problems, challenges from the regulatory environment and global precious metal prices.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican authorities will investigate an incident at a gold mine in the Pacific coastal state of Guerrero which killed three workers, President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Friday.
In 2022, the company announced plans to close the La Platsoa mine, [4] in the third quarter of the year, citing disputes with the worker's union and global metal prices. [6] In 2023, the company spent $50 million to purchase the La Negra silver mine in Querétaro, Mexico. The mine was previously owned by Dalu S.à r. l. [1]
This list of mines in Mexico is subsidiary to the list of mines article and lists working, defunct and future mines in the country and is organised by the primary mineral output. For practical purposes stone, marble and other quarries may be included in this list.
According to a 2022 report by the nongovernmental group Global Witness, Mexico was the deadliest place in the world for environmental and land defense activists in 2021, with 54 killed that year.