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Foreign Investment In Mining In Mexico., Rodrigo Sanchez-Mejorada Velasco
Foreign Investment In Mining In Mexico., Rodrigo Sanchez-Mejorada Velasco
St. Mary's Law Journal
The object of this Article is to focus on the current legal provisions which regulate foreign investment in mining in Mexico. Legislation implemented in 1961 reduced foreign participation in mining to a minority position, and legislation implemented in 1975 further developed Mexican control over mining activities. The enactment of new foreign investment regulations in 1989, and new mining regulations in late 1990 allowed wider participation of foreigners in mining. Mining is one of the oldest economic activities in Mexico. Mercantilist economic ideas, in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, stressed accumulation of precious metals by states and saw American …