Mine in Mexico

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Mine "El Chivo" (México)

Mine "El Chivo", Mexico

Last week I visited in Zacualpan, Edo. de México a miner company called "El Porvenir de Zacualpan" they own 3 different mines in a region 2.5 hours away from Mexico City; The company was originally mexican but was sold to an important Canadian investor group. They extract silver, zinc and lead mainly.


The story started on Dec 22th when I traveled by car 2.5 hours to the South of Mexico to meet Francisco Henández geology supervisor at the mine; More than 6 hours took my visit there. When I just got in there we had a small interview where we discussed security aspects inside of the mine, they have had only 1 death in the last 7 years, the reason was rock collapsing. The biggest risk in these kind of mines is: collapsing; Because of the lack of gases and a very good ventilation system they do not have the risk of an explosion as some other mines which extract coal. In here the organization in every work group is amazing. Even I noted a very relax safety system in the mine the efficiency of each miner is very high and the accident rate is very low in comparison with some other countries like China who has the highest accident rate per year (around 3,000 deaths ever year). 


I had the opportunity to talk with different miners and supervisors, amazingly they spent more than 6 hours with me explained all the processes since the extraction until the metal´s transformation. I am preparing a short video to show you guys my experience in the mexican mine and some conclusions.