Gold: Mexico

(asked on 12th February 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the ruling by the Unitary Agrarian Court Number 28 in Mexico that the company Fresnillo PLC must pay damages to farmers in El Bajío for illegal extraction of gold on the community's land from 2005 to 2013.


Answered by
Douglas Alexander Portrait
Douglas Alexander
Minister of State (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 27th February 2025

The Department for Business and Trade is aware of the case between the Unitary Agrarian Court and Fresnillo PLC. This is a domestic legal matter for Mexico.

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