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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 ...
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 ...
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]
Toquepala Mine in 2003, viewed from ISS.The open pit was then 2.5 kilometers across.. Southern Copper Corporation is a mining company that was founded in 1952. The current incarnation of Southern Copper can be traced to the 2005 acquisition of Southern Peru Copper Corporation by the Mexican copper producer Minera México.
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 CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's Senate on Friday passed a proposal which would make reforms to the Constitution "unchallengeable" as ruling party Morena and allies push through a swath of ...
The mining law of 1866 had given discoverers rights to stake mining claims to extract gold, silver, cinnabar (the principal ore of mercury) and copper. When Congress passed the General Mining Act of 1872, the wording was changed to "or other valuable deposits," giving greater scope to the law. The 1872 law was codified as 30 U.S.C. §§ 22-42 [14]