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Located at over 4,000 meters above sea level in the Altiplano of the Andes Mountains, the San Cristobal Mine is the largest mine in Bolivia. The open-pit silver, lead and zinc mine’s production process requires the transportation of 150,000 tons of rock, and the processing of 40,000 tons of mineral daily Full story

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The violation notices keep coming in: broken safety equipment, underground roof collapses, dangerous levels of carbon monoxide — each a hint of the federal enforcement blitz set off more than a year ago by a series of deadly mining accidents across the nation. Full story

US-based silver miner Hecla Mining (NYSE:HL) says 2011 production remains within the company’s estimates, and it expects to produce nine million ounces of silver despite a spate of mining accidents. Two miners have died in separate incidents . In November two contractors who were buried in rubble trying to dislodge a jammed rock bin. Full story

acid-mine-drainage.jpg The approval of this project is particularly significant because it allows for an investigation to be made to determine the source of the existing mine drainage of some 20 gal/min and evaluate the potential for controlling or eliminating this discharge with an underground grouting program which could avoid the need for a discharge permit. If it is determined that the discharge cannot be ... Full story

On November 30, Eric Sprott, chairman of Sprott Inc. Full story

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire -12/20/11)- Silvercorp Metals Inc. Full story

Here is a list of the 10 biggest silver-producing mines in the world, based on available data. There are differences of opinion about some of the rankings and some of the production figures. Such differences of opinion stem from how miners report... Full story

There has been another accident at Hecla Mining’s Lucky Friday Mine in northern Idaho. Media reports late Wednesday night said that six people have been hospitalized and an undetermined number of miners are trapped underground after a collapse at the silver-lead-zinc mine, one of the deepest underground mines in the United States Full story

A new zinc mine in Canada’s Northwest Territories has received environmental approval. Full story