Minera El Pilon S.A. de C.V. (Mexico)

Minera El Pilonformed initially as Mineral de Nuevo Bolanos in 1982, is acompany engaged in the exploitation and processing of silver. From 1982 to 1983, builds and launches the mining metallurgical unit, which begins to produce impure silver bars (dore) in mid-1983. Currently, Minera El Pilon, is a leading producer of silver in the State of Jalisco, contributing 3.5% of national production of silver and has proven reserves of 18 million troy ounces of the same mineral. A total of 17 years have developed more than 10 km of tunnels and mining work necessary for the extraction of silver, which are sent to the processing plant, which began with a production of 300 tons per day, increasing to about 800 tons per day at present, with grades of around 350 grams of silver per ton, producing more than 5.5 tons of silver per month, under the cyanidation process.