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A Canadian exploration service group with Mexican professionals trained in Canada and the U.S. has set up the CANAMEX Centre in Hermosillo. There are four general categories of mining support services…

A new Mexican president was elected this summer and his party, which has ruled the country for the past 65 years, kept a solid majority in both houses of the General Congress. In the presidential vote…

The Canada Business Centre opened its doors Sept. 1 in Mexico City. The Mexican operation is Canada’s first stand-alone trade centre. It provides Canadian business people with a “work place” other tha…

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A new gold rush is on, not in the storied mines of the Klondike but south of the Rio Grande, in Mexico’s mineral-rich ground. Thanks to a dramatic liberalization of Mexico’s policies on the mining sec…

Having taken it on the chin in the recent recession, metals producers — and their customers — are bouncing back in championship style. By shedding non-core assets and reducing costs by remarkable pe…

Preparing La Cienega mine in the northwest of Durango state for underground production this year is the Penoles group. The project’s deposits sit in a 4-km-long system of quartz veins and host gold-si…

Outgoing Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari and former Italian trade minister Renato Ruggiero are the favorites to head the new World Trade Organization (WTO), diplomats said recently in Gene…

Halloween was still weeks away, but that did not prevent the ghost of Windy Craggy from stalking the District 6 annual general meeting of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CI…

Acheron Resources (ACZ: VSE) has changed its name to Abaddon Resources (ABA: VSE) on a 1-new-for-9-old-sh basis.

Royalty-holder Franco-Nevada Mining (TSE) has paid US$2.25 million to South Africa-based Rustenburg Platinum for a 5% net profits interest royalty in that country’s Pandora platinum property. The depo…

Western markets appear to have slipped into the fall-winter doldrums despite the considerable amount of exploration activity taking place in the Southern Hemisphere. Gold is not helping matters, altho…