Mining news: Mexico
By International Mining, July 18th, 2008 at 11:09 pm -
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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 [...]
By Mining News, June 29th, 2008 at 5:08 pm -
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Peabody Energy says it has started shipping coal from its new El Segundo mine in northwestern New Mexico.
By Greg Fenrick, June 25th, 2008 at 5:29 pm -
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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, [...]
By Mining News, June 10th, 2008 at 6:28 pm -
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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 …
By Greg Fenrick, June 5th, 2008 at 2:09 pm -
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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
By Greg Fenrick, June 5th, 2008 at 1:44 pm -
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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. [...]
By Canadian Mining Journal, June 5th, 2008 at 1:09 pm -
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MEXICO - GREAT PANTHER RESOURCES of Vancouver recently celebrated the reopening of the famous Guanajuato silver min… [Full Story]
By Greg Fenrick, May 30th, 2008 at 4:27 pm -
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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 [...]
By Greg Fenrick, May 26th, 2008 at 5:30 pm -
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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
By Greg Fenrick, May 26th, 2008 at 5:30 pm -
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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
By Mining News, May 26th, 2008 at 8:13 am -
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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.
By admin, May 22nd, 2008 at 6:42 am -
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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 [...]