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Peñoles
Peñoles is a subsidiary company owned by Grupo BAL. Peñoles is the second largest Mexican mining company, the first Mexican producer of gold, zinc and lead and the world leader in silver production. Peñoles is a company with active mines within Mexico and with some prospection projects in South America. Holdings includes the Fresnillo Silver Mine / Mina Proaño, the Met-Mex Peñoles metallurgical complex and Química del Rey; a Chemical facility; three operations. Peñoles produces about of silver and of gold annually. Other metals that the
industry - RIP technology adopted by Penjom gold mine, Malaysia.
- 2000 Project AuTEK launched. Large-scale demonstration of DC arc ferronickel smelting from laterite ore.
- 2001 DC smelting technology implemented for cobalt recovery (Chambishi Metals). Cyanide laboratory commissioned. AuTEK Nanotechnology programme initiated.
- 2002 Quality system achieves ISO 9001 certification. Bioleaching of copper suiphide concentrates demonstrated at Industrials AuTEK Biomedical programme initiated. Peñoles, Mexico. Mineral Economics and Strategy Unit formed.
- 2003 Environmental management system achieves ISO 14001 certification