{"id":4435,"date":"2014-05-14T16:50:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T16:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=4435"},"modified":"2014-05-14T16:50:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T16:50:49","slug":"mexicos-highest-grading-silver-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=4435","title":{"rendered":"Mexico\u2019s highest grading silver mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4436\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4436\" style=\"width: 555px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4436\" src=\"http:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/mina555.jpg\" alt=\"La Platosa Mine Visit. In 2014, Excellon forecasts to produce between 1.4 and 1.6 million ounces of silver, 7.5 and 8.5 million pounds of led, and 9 to 10 million pounds of zinc.\" width=\"555\" height=\"311\" data-id=\"4436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/mina555.jpg 555w, https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/mina555-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/mina555-500x280.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4436\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">La Platosa Mine Visit. In 2014, Excellon forecasts to produce between 1.4 and 1.6 million ounces of silver, 7.5 and 8.5 million pounds of led, and 9 to 10 million pounds of zinc.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>By Peter Spina<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>SilverSeek<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When your company only has one mine, that one mine had better be a good one. For Excellon Resources, their only mine just so happens to be the highest-grade silver producer in Mexico, as well as one of the lowest-cost operations in the country.<\/p>\n<p>As of now, Excellon&#8217;s Platosa mine, consisting of several carbonate-replacement manto deposits, has a resource of 484,000 measured and indicate tonnes grading no less than 777 g\/t silver, plus 8.42% lead and 10.15% zinc, for a 1,277 g\/t silver equivalence. That makes for about 20 million silver equivalent ounces in less than half-a-million tonnes of rock.<\/p>\n<p>Along with grades, the mine benefits from great infrastructure including grid power, a national highway close by, and the sizable city of Torreon with its international airport only 55 km away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silverseek.com\/commentary\/mexico\u2019s-highest-grading-silver-mine-excellon-resources-site-visit-13182\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Continue reading . . .<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When your company only has one mine, that one mine had better be a good one. For Excellon Resources, their only mine just so happens to be the highest-grade silver producer in Mexico, as well as one of the lowest-cost operations in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[76],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4437,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435\/revisions\/4437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}