Category: Exploration and Development

Durante las semanas recientes han surgido una serie de protestas de inconformidad y de conflicto con algunas empresas mineras, relacionadas con el incumplimiento de lo que establece la ley (10 por ciento) del reparto de utilidades para los trabajadores, las violaciones a los contratos colectivos y a la libertad de asociación, así como las denuncias por amenazas, prepotencia, abusos e incluso un tema más delicado como lo es el acoso sexual contra las mujeres trabajadoras.

Esperanza Resources Corp. announced that the Company has received notification from the Mexican federal permitting authority, Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recurso Naturales that the Company’s initial environmental permit application (known by the Spanish acronym, “MIA”) in respect of the Company’s Esperanza gold project has not received approval. The Company has the right, as provided by SEMARNAT in the notification, to resubmit a revised MIA taking into account comments disclosed in the notification.

Riverside Resources Inc. and its partner, Sierra Madre Developments Inc. are pleased to provide new trench and drill results from the Jesus Maria Mine area at the Peñoles Project in Durango, Mexico. Highlighted results included Trench 11, which returned 15.4 metres (m) averaging 420.8 g/t silver (including a 2 m interval that assayed 2,152.2 g/t silver), and diamond drill hole JM DDH 13-06, which returned 11.85 m averaging 320.3 g/t silver including a 0.9 m interval that assayed 3,409.1 g/t silver. Diamond drill hole JM DDH 13-07 intersected a 2.1 m interval that returned 279.5 g/t silver and a 4.0 m interval that returned 532.9 g/t silver. The highlighted results are from a series of four new trenches and eight shallow drill holes that were completed during the most recent campaign to test the new exploration area east of the old workings along the Jesus Maria vein system.

Mexus Gold US is a company engaged in the evaluation, acquisition, exploration, development and production of mining properties and conducts salvage operations for the recovery of precious metals.

Aura Minerals Inc. announces an update on the mine and plant expansion at its wholly-owned Aranzazu copper project in Zacatecas State, Mexico. All amounts are presented in United States dollars unless otherwise noted.

Source Exploration Corp. is pleased to announce the successful negotiation of an extension to its option agreement to acquire the Pepe, Pepe Tres, and San Jose concessions located at the Las Minas property in Veracruz State, Mexico.

Evrim Resources Corp. has been advised by partner Vale Exploration Canada Inc. that it is relinquishing its option to earn up to a 70% interest in the Arroyo Amarillo project in Sonora, Mexico.

Coeur Mining, Inc. today announced that it has been recognized by the International Society of Mine Safety Professionals with three national and international safety awards for its operations in North and South America.

Habitantes totonacas del municipio de Olintla denunciaron que Grupo México abrió, sin su autorización ni del ayuntamiento y de la Secretaría del Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (Semarnat), un camino alterno para llegar a la zona del río Ajajalpan, en donde pretende instalar una hidroeléctrica.

“Vamos por la armonía y por un equilibrio con la comunidad, empresa, medio ambiente y trabajadores. Estamos conscientes de la importancia de la industria minera en nuestro Estado y su gran impacto en la actividad económica”, expone la legisladora sonorense…