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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 ...
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.
In April 2022, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sent a legislative proposal to the Congress of Mexico to reform the national mining law and establish that the government possesses a monopoly on the extraction and commercialization of lithium in the country, limiting the participation of the private sector in this activity. [2]
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.
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 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.
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.
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 ...