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Torex Gold Initiates Re-Start of Operations at ELG Mine, Mexico

Published: January 24, 2018 |

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Torex Gold Resources Inc. said that the sequential re-start of the ELG Mine Complex, located in southwest Mexico, has begun. A team of unionized employees and management has initiated the re-start in priority areas of the plant. More employees will be called back as additional sections of the mine and plant are brought on line.

This re-start has been made possible, in large part due to the actions of the Community of Nuevo Balsas and the CTM Union, who worked with management to re-establish and secure plant access through a road used during construction.

Unfortunately, a subset of the Real del Limon Ejido continues to actively support the blockade and the Los Mineros Union, which does not represent the ELG’s already-unionized workers. In media interviews, Los Mineros has been reported as having dropped the pretense of wanting to ‘win’ the collective agreement through a vote by secret ballot of union eligible employees. Instead, it wants the collective agreement to be ‘given’ to them, regardless of the wishes of the majority of employees. The company remains committed to finding a legal solution to the blockade, but clearly, taking the collective agreement from one union and simply giving it to another union is not a legal solution.

“The re-start of operations is an encouraging development, as is the support of so many community members and employees. The majority of employees want to return to work, and even in the face of threats of violence and sabotage from the blockaders, they have been returning to the ELG Mine Complex to assist with the re-start of the operations. It is unclear whether these threats are a negotiating tactic or an expression of their intention. We certainly hope they are just a negotiating tactic and will not be acted upon. However, we cannot be sure,” said Fred Stanford, president and CEO of Torex.

“We thank the communities of Nuevo Balsas and Valerio Trujano, the members of the CTM union, and the employees for their public support for the mine and their continued requests for government intervention to enforce the rule of law. Although the uncertainty continues as to whether the rule of law will prevail, great courage has been demonstrated by employees and community members as they look for ways to get the operations re-started for the benefit off all,” added Stanford.

The Federal Gendarmerie is on site to protect personnel and productive assets while the sequential re-start of the ELG Mine Complex continues. Torex hopes the Gendarmerie will hold their ground if the blockaders attempt to deny others their right to work, or to deny owners their right to benefit from the productive assets they have built in good faith, based on contractual agreements with the Ejido landowners.


About Torex Gold Resources
Torex is an emerging intermediate gold producer based in Canada, engaged in the exploration, development and operation of its 100 percent owned Morelos Gold Property, an area of 29,000 hectares in the highly prospective Guerrero Gold Belt located 180 kilometers southwest of Mexico City. Within this property, Torex has the El Limón Guajes Mine, which announced commercial production in March of 2016, the Sub-Sill Project, currently under development, and the Media Luna Project, an early stage development project for which the Company issued a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) in 2015. The property remains 75 percent unexplored.

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