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Mexico
Charcas Mine (IMMSA Operation)

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 Location:
3 km W from Charcas, San Luis Potosí, Mexico

  Regional Office:
Campos Elíseos N° 400 Colonia Lomas de Chapultepec Delegación Miguel Hidalgo
Mexico city
Mexico, Mexico
11000
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Fax(5255) 1103-5567
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Overview

StageProduction
Mine TypeUnderground
Commodities
  • Zinc
  • Lead
  • Copper
Mining Method
  • Cut & Fill
  • Room-and-pillar
Processing
  • Flotation
The complex includes three underground mines (San Bartolo, Rey-Reina and La Aurora) and one flotation plant that produces zinc, lead and copper concentrates, with significant amounts of silver.

The Charcas mine is now Mexico’s largest producer of zinc.


Owners

Source: p. 3, 49
CompanyInterestOwnership
Grupo Mexico S.A. de C.V. 88.87 % Indirect
Ownership Tree
Industrial Minera Mexico, S.A. de C.V. (together with its subsidiaries, the “IMMSA unit”) operates five underground mines that produce zinc, lead, copper, silver and gold, a coal mine and a zinc refinery.

IMMSA’s principal mining facilities include Charcas, Santa Barbara, San Martin, Santa Eulalia and Taxco.

Deposit Type

  • Carbonate replacement


Summary:

The Charcas mining district occupies the east-central part of the Mexican Central Mesa and is part of the Sierra Madre metallogenic province. Geological history starts in the Superior Triasic, where sandy clay sediments were deposited argilloarenaceous. Due to emersion in the beginning of the Jurassic Superior, the sediments suffered intense erosion, settling on continental sediments. This sequence was affected by tectonic effort, which folded and failed on this rock package. Later the positioning of intrusive rocks originated fractures, which gave way to positioning of mineral deposits. The site’s paragenesis suggests two stages of mineralization. First minerals are rich in silver, lead and zinc, with abundant calcite and small quantities of quartz chalcopyrite. Second, there is a link of copper and silver, where the characteristic minerals are chalcopyrite, lead ore with silver content, pyrite and scarce sphalerite. Economic ore is found as replacement sulfurs in carbonates host rock. The ore mineralogy is comprised predominantly of calcopyrite (CuFeS ), sphalerite (ZnS), galena (PbS) and silver minerals as diaphorite (Pb Ag Sb S).


Mining Methods

  • Cut & Fill
  • Room-and-pillar


Summary:

The Charcas mine uses the hydraulic cut-and-fill method and the room-and-pillar mining method with descending benches. The broken ore is hauled to the underground crusher station. The crushed ore is then hoisted to the surface for processing in the flotation plant to produce lead, zinc and copper concentrates.


Crushing and Grinding


Processing

  • Flotation

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Summary:

The complex includes three underground mines (San Bartolo, Rey-Reina and La Aurora) and one flotation plant that produces zinc, lead and copper concentrates with significant amounts of silver.

CommodityParameter
Zinc Recovery Rate, %
Zinc Head Grade, %
Zinc Concentrate Grade, %
Lead Recovery Rate, %
Lead Head Grade, %
Lead Concentrate Grade, %
Copper Recovery Rate, %
Copper Head Grade, %
Copper Concentrate Grade, %

Production:

CommodityUnits20142013
Zinc kt 4384
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Copper kt  ......  Subscription required  ......  Subscription required
All production numbers are expressed as concentrate.

Operational Metrics:

Metrics202020192018201720162015
Tonnes milled  ......  Subscription required1,293 kt1,290 kt1,249 kt1,229 kt1,040 kt
Annual milling capacity  ......  Subscription required1,460 kt1,460 kt1,460 kt1,460 kt1,460 kt
Daily milling capacity  ......  Subscription required4,100 t4,100 t
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Combined reserves/resources are reported under IMMSA Operation



Heavy Mobile Equipment as of December 31, 2013:
HME TypeQuantity
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Mine Management:

Job TitleNameProfileRef. Date
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Staff:

EmployeesYear
Subscription required 2014

Corporate Filings & Presentations:

DocumentYear
................................... Subscription required 2020
................................... Subscription required 2019
Form 10-K 2018
Form 10-K 2017
Annual Report 2016
Form 10-K 2016
Annual Report 2015
Form 10-K 2015
Annual Report 2014
Form 10-K 2014
Form 10-K 2013
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