News - Mining

Eugenio Fernández Vázquez

04/04/2023

[Translation] The initiative still needs to be effectively approved by the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic. That battle will not be easy, as mining interests have enormous resources and many allies....

01/19/2023

 

TO THE PEOPLE OF MEXICO

TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC ANDRÉS MANUEL LÓPEZ OBRADOR

[Translation] From the Sierra Norte de Puebla the Union of Ejidos and...

Gilberto López y Rivas

10/01/2021

[Translation] The Independence watershed, in the north of the state of Guanajuato, is a territory that encompasses seven municipalities, including Dolores Hidalgo and San Miguel de Allende, which share a subterranean...

Jon Queally

03/01/2020

Demonstration held "in solidarity with every community that has found itself staring down the barrel of a gun for daring to oppose Canada's ongoing colonial project through resource extraction."

Hundreds of people...

Laura Poy Solano

01/31/2020

The National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt) will issue a call in which rural and urban communities may request researchers and technologists to solve local problems including pollution, health and...

Roberto Gutiérrez Torres

01/13/2020

Dolores Hidalgo, Gto. Last night, organizations and civil associations that have been fighting against the exploitation of the Cerro del Gallo Mine in the San Anton de las Minas community in Dolores Hidalgo, announced...

Zvezda Ninel Castillo Romero

01/02/2020

The Regional Council of Original Peoples in Defense of the Territory of Puebla and Hidalgo will express to the president Andrés Manuel López Obrador a demand for cancellation of the Tuxpan-Tula gas pipeline on Saturday,...

Ixtlixóchitl López

12/10/2019

MEXICO CITY [translation] - Foreigners who participated in the # ToxiTourMéxico criticized the worrysome situation they witnessed in regard to environmental pollution resulting from from the industries established as part...

A Reflection by Michael T. Hertz

11/08/2019

Yesterday, I went to a protest in San Miguel de Allende against a new gold mine in Dolores Hidalgo. A Canadian company wants to start yet another open pit mining operation in the Man Miguel region, creating even more...

07/11/2019

Citizens and environmentalists fear irreversible damage if the Canadian company, Argonaut Gold, carries out its plans to begin operations in the Cerro del Gallo mining project which would exploit 20 thousand 270 hectares...

Carlos García

07/09/2019

Argonaut Gold would exploit more than 20 thousand hectares that include old deposits.

The Canadian company, Argonaut Gold, is planning to exploit minerals in the town of San Antón de las Minas....

Thematic Coordinator: Rodolfo García Zamora

03/20/2018

Diagnosis

With the...

11/27/2017

[The Education Collaborative is including this 2017 news as background information on the current protests in Dolores Hidalgo.]

Toronto, Ontario - Argonaut Gold Inc. (TSX: AR) (the “...

Gene Palumbo and Elisabeth Malkin

03/29/2017

[The Education Collaborative is including this 2017 news as background information on the current protests in Dolores Hidalgo.]

SAN SALVADOR — Lawmakers in El Salvador voted...

06/18/2019

On Tuesday, June 18, more than 1,500 people from communities in the southern region of Dolores Hidalgo gathered in a meeting attended by the president of the municipality, Miguel Angel Rayas. They demanded that he deny...

Cecilia Jamasmie

11/27/2017

The Cerro del Gallo deposit is situated within the larger San Antón property, located in the state of Guanajuato in central Mexico. (Image courtesy of...