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The Rise of Precious Metals Enters the Radar of Organized Crime Extortion in Mexico

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The massive kidnapping of 10 miners in Sinaloa in January has exposed yet another edge of the security crisis that for years has hit the mining sector in Mexico, spurred by the explosion of the prices of silver and gold. Criminal organizations, which exercise territorial control in some of the most abundant areas of mineral and metal resources, extort domestic and foreign companies, raising production costs and their budgets in security. Compani…

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The massive kidnapping of 10 miners in Sinaloa in January has exposed yet another edge of the security crisis that for years has hit the mining sector in Mexico, spurred by the explosion of the prices of silver and gold. Criminal organizations, which exercise territorial control in some of the most abundant areas of mineral and metal resources, extort domestic and foreign companies, raising production costs and their budgets in security. Compani…

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Miners and their families marched in at least six states to demand justice for the murders and disappearances in Concordia, Sinaloa.

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Workers from the mining sector, students, families and friends of the disappeared and murdered miners in the municipality of Concordia, in the state of Sinaloa (northeast) of Mexico, demonstrated this Saturday in the city of Hermosillo, capital of the neighboring state of Sonora, to demand justice and security from the Mexican state in this economic activity that represents 2.5% of the national GDP. In the early morning of January 23 several arm…

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Residents march in 7 states to demand justice from the Mexican government for the miners kidnapped and murdered in Sinaloa.

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Redacción / Grupo Canton Members of the mining sector carried out simultaneous mobilizations in at least six entities of the country to demand justice for the workers kidnapped in Concordia, Sinaloa. Sinaloa.- The mining community mobilized on February 14 in at least six states of the Republic to demand justice after the disappearance of 10 workers [...] The post Calls for marches in several states by disappeared comrades in Sinaloa appeared fir…

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“We miners demand security, enough of being in danger for working honestly, let us not allow more massacres like Concordia Santiago García C.14 Febrero, 2026. Hermosillo, Sonora.- With the presence of the relatives of Antonio Esparza and Antonio Jiménez, the two Sonorian miners killed in Concordia, Sinaloa, began in Hermosillo the silent march called this Saturday February 14 by the mining sector. “March of mourning for our comrades, so that we …

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elsiglodetorreon.com.mx broke the news in on Saturday, February 14, 2026.
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