[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....
News - Mining
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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....
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 “...
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...
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...