Mexican authorities have recovered the bodies of at least five workers from Canada's Vizsla Silver Corp., who were abducted last month from the Panuco project in Sinaloa state. An investigation into the miners’ disappearance is ongoing, and the company suspended operations after the incident.
Mexican authorities said at least five workers from Canada’s Vizsla Silver Corp. have been found dead, after 10 people were abducted from the company’s Panuco project east of the Pacific Coast city of Mazatlan last month.
The Attorney General’s Office said in a statement Monday that officials had also discovered five other bodies in the state, and were working on identifying those individuals. An investigation into miners’ disappearance is ongoing, the statement added.The developer suspended operations at the project in January, after reporting that ten people had been taken from the site in Concordia in Mexico’s Sinaloa state. Vizsla said information about the incident was limited, and that it had engaged crisis management and security response teams. Vizsla is preparing to start construction at Panuco later this year, and expects to start producing silver in the second half of 2027. The project has “31.4 million ounces of silver equivalent in proven reserves, according to the company.Copper price surge is masking mining woes in top producer ChileNewmont wants Barrick to fix Nevada operations before IPO
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