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Minera Tayahua S.A. de C.V.

Minera Tayahua S.A. de C.V.

Tayahua Mine, Concepcion del Oro District, Zacatecas. Owned by the Guiterrez family, this company operates in the Concepcion del Oro District, Zacatecas. Recently (1Q99) made a JV deal with Empresas Frisco S.A. de C.V. They were previously working on a deal with Kennecott to form a new  JV: Kennecott Tayahua S.A. de C.V. to expand production on a  zoned Cu-Pb-Zn-Ag-Au skarn orebody hosted in carbonates adjacent to a quartz monzonite intrusion. Proven reserves are 7.5 M tonnes of Pb-Zn-Ag ore at over 8% combined Pb+Zn plus 120 gpt Ag. Also proven are 38.4 M tonnes of Cu ore at 1.26% Cu plus 0.4 gpt Au. Resources in the area are estimated to exceed 150 M tonnes. Ramping Cu ore production from 2,000 to 3,300 tpd in 119 and 5,000 tpd in 1998. Pb-Zn-Ag ore will remain at the present level of 1,500 tpd. Evidently this deal was vetoed by RTZ upper management and didn't go through and that is when Empresas Frisco S.A. de C.V. picked up the ball and ran with it towards completion of successful JV with Minera Tayahua in 1Q99.

Personel E-mail 11Mar99
January, 1998
E&MJ September, 1996