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UK precious metals mining company based in Mexico
Fresnillo plc is a Mexican precious metals mining company incorporated in the United Kingdom and headquartered in Mexico City. Fresnillo is the world's largest producer of silver from ore (primary silver) and Mexico's second-largest gold miner. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.3 Its chief executive is Octavio Alvídrez (since 2012).1 It is part of Peñoles.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
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Fresnillo plc is a Mexican precious metals mining company incorporated in the United Kingdom and headquartered in Mexico City. Fresnillo is the world's largest producer of silver from ore (primary silver) and Mexico's second-largest gold miner. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.3
Fresnillo plc is part of a group headed by INDUSTRIAS PEÑOLES S A B DE C V. 9 entities, 3 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.
Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); stakes of 5% or more it reported on Schedules 13D and 13G (1 companies). Each entity in the chart links to its source.
Formerly a wholly owned operating division of Industrias Peñoles, a minority stake in the company was spun off on the London Stock Exchange in a May 2008 IPO, with a secondary listing on the Mexican Stock Exchange on the same day.
On 15 August 2012, Octavio Alvídrez took over as chief executive from Jaime Lomelín, following a handover period.
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The company operates three gold and silver mines in Mexico (Industrias Peñoles retained the rights to its primary base metals mines when Fresnillo was spun off). The largest mine, in terms of silver output, is Mina Proaño (also known as Fresnillo Mine), located near the city of Fresnillo in the state of Zacatecas; the other mines are at Cienega, in Durango, and Herradura, in Sonora. In 2007, Fresnillo plc produced 34.3 million ounces of silver and 279,614 ounces of gold from its three active mines, as well as around 20 tons each of zinc and lead as by-products.
The company also has 21 active exploration projects located across the country. It signalled plans to use the money raised in its IPO to expand into Peru and Chile.
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Fresnillo plc has told the SEC it owns more than 5% of 1 company, latest first (Schedules 13D and 13G).
How Fresnillo plc is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, from its EDGAR record and the cover page of its latest annual report.
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