Mining news: Mexico

Strong international turnout expected for MINExpo

MINExpo International 2008, the world’s largest mining equipment and technology exposition, is just two months away and international vendors are working with the US Department of Commerce’s (DOC) International Buyer Program (IBP) to facilitate a robust international component of the show. To date 15 countries are using the IBP to organise delegations to attend the [...]

New Mexico coal mine starts feeding TEP plant

Peabody Energy says it has started shipping coal from its new El Segundo mine in northwestern New Mexico.

Caterpillar Announces Acquisition of Leading Brazilian Locomotive

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MGE Equipamentos & Serviços Ferroviários Ltda. will become part of Caterpillar’s Progress Rail Services Division
PEORIA, IL, - Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT), has reached an agreement to acquire all of the capital stock of MGE Equipamentos & Serviços Ferroviários Ltda. (MGE). Based in Diadema and Hortolandia - in Sao Paulo State, Brazil, [...]

Southern Copper to invest $934 million in Peru mine

The corporation, a leading global producer of copper that operates in Peru and Mexico, is planning to invest $934 million in Tia Maria, a copper reserve located in Cocachacra - a district in the southern …

Mexico Miners’ Union May Take Strike Vote This Week / Judge says German Larrea “You have one week”

Mexico’s biggest mining union may vote this week on whether to hold more strikes if the Labor Ministry doesn’t officially recognize its leader’s re-election. “It is an irresponsible provocation,” Napoleon …more at topix

Santa Fe Gold Agrees to Purchase Processing Equipment and Real Property for Summit Silver-Gold Project

ALBUQUERQUE, NM–(Marketwire - June 3, 2008) - Santa Fe Gold Corp (OTCBB: SFEG), a U.S.-based mining and exploration enterprise focused on gold, silver, copper and industrial minerals, today announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement with St. Cloud Mining Company (”St. Cloud”), a New Mexico corporation, to purchase St. [...]

SILVER MINING - 400-year-old silver mine reopens

MEXICO - GREAT PANTHER RESOURCES of Vancouver recently celebrated the reopening of the famous Guanajuato silver min… [Full Story]

Robot maps Mexican silver mine

Using a unique laser scanning robot 3D Laser Mapping has successfully completed a project to create a 3D map of the San Jose silver mine in Mexico. The survey, commissioned by Arian Silver Corp, which recently added the brownfield project to its portfolio, enabled further definition of the mine’s potential by providing an accurate volumetric [...]

New Steelworkers’ Website Sets Record Straight on Grupo Mexico

The United Steelworkers has launched a new website to shine the spotlight on the business practices of Grupo Mexico, a Mexican conglomerate that owns numerous businesses in the Western Hemisphere….more at topix.com

Mexican miners set 24-hour strike for Monday

Mexico’s mining union said its members would go on a 24-hour nationwide strike on Monday after the labor ministry failed to confirm the reelection of the union’s estranged leader Napoleon Gomez….more at topix.com

Mexico Mine Union on Strike for Recognition of Leader

Mexico’s largest mining union began a one-day strike to protest the government’s delay in recognizing the re-election of Napoleon Gomez Urrutia as its leader.

Many mine start ups since April

The latest issue of International Mining Project News is now available (May 23). In addition to almost 35 feasibility and prefeasibility studies, it reports on some 40 projects in development and notes a higher than normal number of new mines going into production over the past two weeks. Big news is Couer d’Alene Mines noting [...]