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Buenavista mine

Buenavista mine, Mexico. Producing, open pit, mining copper, silver, molybdenum since 1899.

Why Buenavista is famous

Described by Southern Copper as the oldest continuously operated copper mine in North America, with operations dating from 1899. Anaconda bought it in 1917 and began the first open pit in the early 1940s. Minera Mexico bought the assets in 1990 for USD 475 million. A second concentrator began in 2016.1,2

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Buenavista today

Where copper is mined todayWhere silver is mined todayWhere molybdenum is mined todayMining in Mexico

Sources

  1. Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025 Southern Copper Corporation (SEC)
  2. data/minerals/operations.csv Prospector Trails (internal)

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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