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wild west stuff...gold mine robbery near Santo Tomas

Started by jerry · Aug 12, 2015 · 1 replies
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Caborca, Sonora a 11 de agosto de 2015.- Elementos de la Sedena y de las policías Estatal Investigadora, Estatal de Seguridad Pública y Municipal, coordinados por el Agente del Ministerio Público del Fuero Común, implementaron un operativo para dar con los responsables de un robo ocurrido esta mañana a una mina ubicada en esta población.


Los hechos se suscitaron alrededor de las 11:00 horas de hoy en el ejido Juan Álvarez, cuando personal de la mina trasladaba dos contenedores conteniendo en su interior un material conocido como precipitado.

Siendo a la altura del kilómetro 25, en un camino de terracería, cuando fueron interceptados por tres vehículos de donde descendieron varios sujetos armados, los cuales amagaron al personal de la mina.

Cuando los sujetos pretendían subir un contenedor a uno de sus vehículos éste se les volteó cayéndose el material conocido como precipitado, por lo que recogieron lo que pudieron y lo echaron a granel a una de las unidades que traían.

En el momento en que estaban llevando a cabo dicha maniobra llegó al lugar un tráiler que transportaba material explosivo, también propiedad de la mina, el cual iba custodiado por un vehículo con personal de seguridad privada.

Los delincuentes desarmaron a los guardias privados, robándole a uno de ellos un arma de cargo, siendo ésta una Glock calibre 380, para posteriormente darse a la fuga.

Personal de la mina dio aviso de forma inmediata a las autoridades, por lo que se implementó un operativo, coordinado por el Agente del Ministerio Público del Fuero Común, quien se trasladó al lugar de los hechos, donde se aseguró un vehículo tipo pick up, de la marca Chevrolet, línea Avalanche, modelo 2007, de color gris, en cuyo interior se encontraron una escopeta calibre 20 y un rifle calibre 22; así mismo se aseguró una pistola calibre 9 milímetros sin cargador. Dichas armas y vehículo fueron abandonados por los delincuentes.

De acuerdo a lo manifestado por personal de la mina, del material de precipitado que alcanzaron a llevarse los delincuentes se pueden extraer alrededor de cuatro kilos de oro y poco más de 100 onzas de plata.
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Gunmen took gold and silver. Photo: EFE

Mexico City, August 12 (HOWEVER) .- An armed group stole a cargo of gold and silver in the La Herradura mine in Caborca, Sonora. A bounty of 4.5 kilograms of gold and silver valued at $ 165,000 were taken, said Wednesday the company Fresnillo, less than 300 kilograms newspaper reported yesterday figure.

"We expect the authority to exercise the law to clarify the facts and get to the end to solve as soon as possible the situation experienced in the mining unit La Herradura" the company said in a statement.

Fresnillo operates six mines in the country, has 500 thousand employees and is controlled by Peñoles, the magnate Alberto Baillères. During the looting, he said, there were no injuries and cooperates with authorities.

Last April, the director of the mining canandiense McEwen Mining, Rob McEwen, acknowledged in an interview with Canadian broadcaster Business News Network that operate in Mexico carries a "good relationship" with groups of drug trafficking in Sinaloa, who give the permits companies to know when they can operate, after an assault in which a gold command was valued at $ 8.4 million at a mine in Sinaloa.

After the uproar that caused the remarks mining executive denied that the sector is extorted in the state and apologized to the national authorities.

"The cartels are there. Generally we have a good relationship with them. If we want to go exploring somewhere, we asked, and I say no, but back in a couple of weeks later, when we finish what we're doing, "McEwen said in the interview with foreign media, adding that the area is time taken by transport operations and harvesting drug.

The director was invited to explain how the circumstances of violence in Mexico affecting the company, as happened with the theft of 198 kilos of gold at the headquarters "El Gallo 1", in the municipality of Mocorito.

In the words of McEwen own, eight heavily armed and with faces covered infiltrated the facility and had to pass four doors padlocked and protected by a security card system.

"They got all the people all keys to open the doors," McEwen said.

It was established that people arrived near the town El Nacimiento, where they entered the field of mine to get to where the refinery and the vault was then submitted to the 10 employees who were the place.

Moreover, according to the police version intruders they achieve their mission found thanks to free access to the vault because it was open. In the act they seized 600 containers and 900 kilos of metal, gold concentrate containing approximately 7000 ounces of gold, silver and copper.

The material would have been emptied into drums that were in the trucks, a Jeep Cherokee, black, and Mitsubishi van.

The cost of this material would be worth $ 8.4 million, or what is equal to one month's production of the mining plant. However, McEwen said in an interview that the subjects would still need to melt the metal to extract