Main article: Pasta de Conchos mine disaster Three people were injured, and videos appeared online documenting the "sad and harrowing" local damage to marine wildlife as a consequence of the spill. On July 9, 2019, 3,000 liters of sulfuric acid spilled into the Sea of Cortés from Grupo México-owned pipes near the city of Guaymas, in northwestern Mexico. Commencement Bay, Near Shore/Tide Flats smelter, groundwater, and residences in Tacoma and Ruston, Washington.Ĭases in Mexico Sea of Cortés acid spill.Tar Creek Superfund site (Ottawa County) lead and zinc operations and surrounding residences in Oklahoma.
Bunker Hill Mining and Metallurgical, Coeur d'Alene River Basin, Idaho. ASARCO Globe Plant, EPA Site COD007063530, Globeville, near South Platte River, Denver and Adams County, Colorado. (SCMCI), now bankrupt, EPA Site COD983778432, in Del Norte, Rio Grande County, Colorado Summitville Consolidated Mining Corp., Inc. California Gulch mine and river systems in Leadville, Colorado. Smeltertown, a copper smelter used to illegally dispose of hazardous waste, in El Paso, El Paso County, Texas. Argo Smelter, Omaha & Grant Smelter, labeled EPA Site COD002259588, and located at Vasquez Boulevard and I-70 in Denver, Colorado. Interstate Lead Company, or ILCO, labeled EPA Site ALD041906173, and located in Leeds, Jefferson County, Alabama. These talls smokestacks at Asarco's El Paso Smeltertown site were brought down in 2013.Īsarco has been found responsible for environmental pollution at 20 Superfund sites across the U.S. Pollution and environmental issues Cases in the US through ASARCO District Judge Andrew Hanen accept Grupo México's $2.5 billion bid for ASARCO as it prepares to come out of bankruptcy. Bankruptcy Judge Richard Schmidt recommended that U.S. As of September 2009, ASARCO was the focus of a bidding war begun in May 2008 between its own parent company Grupo México and India-based Sterlite Industries. District Court for the Southern District of Texas under District Court Judge Andrew Hanen. The SPCC equity sale is subject to a litigation between Grupo Mexico and ASARCO pending in the U.S. Grupo Mexico acquired 54.2% equity interest in Southern Peru Copper Corporation from ASARCO LLC, a mining company operating in the United States. In 2004, Grupo México purchased a controlling interest in the Southern Peru Copper Corporation. During miners' strikes in January 2003 and October 2004, Grupo México responded with threats to close the Cananea mines. Grupo México has been in continual conflict with Local 65, the Cananea branch of the Mexican Mine Workers' Union (SNTMMSRM). 
By 2000, Grupo México was responsible for 87.5 percent of Mexico's copper production and is the world's third-largest copper producer. He also purchased numerous other mining sites, including coal mines in the state of Coahuila. After the government of Carlos Salinas declared the state mining company bankrupt, Larrea purchased key Mexican copper mines in Cananea and Nacozari (cities in the state of Sonora). The company was founded by Raúl Antonio Escobedo and Larrea Mota Velasco in 1978.
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