Loading ...A group of activists from the Ixtacamaxtitlán municipality, located in the Puebla state of central Mexico, presented a letter to the country’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, where they state that Minera Gorrión’s Ixtaca project represents “a threat to their lives.”
Gorrión is a subsidiary of Canada’s Almaden Minerals (TSE: AMM) and the Ixtaca deposit is said to be one a multimillion ounce mine. It was discovered by Almaden in 2010 and acquired by staking up to 1044 hectares of land. The company already completed a feasibility study and is now focussed on taking it into production.
However, Almaden has been facing the opposition of some farmers and indigenous community members for a while.
cont. http://www.mining.com/activists-ask-mexican-president-stop-almaden-minerals-project/