MEXICO CITY, Oct 13, (APP/AFP): Mexico and Canada launched a task force on Wednesday to improve conditions for Canadian-owned mines in the Latin American nation, where security problems and protests have affected operations. Goldcorp temporarily suspended production at Mexico’s biggest gold mine in the northern state of Zacatecas last week after a transport company blocked access to the site. The blockade, which was removed last week, occurred as the Canadian firm plans to diversity its local transportation supply chain. Last year, Goldcorp voiced concerns about violence in communities surrounding another gold mine in the southern state of Guerrero, where drug cartels buried victims in clandestine graves and taxed mine workers. Mexican Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu and Canadian counterpart Stephane Dion announced the task force following talks in Mexico City, but they did not directly mention the problems that have affected Goldcorp and other miners.
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Canada, Mexico seek to overcome mine ‘challenges’
