Pilot mining to help Dia Bras build reserv

摘要

To this day, no one really knows what happened to plans to mine the Cusi property in the early 1900s. They went missing while Mexican revolutionary hero Pancho Villa and his villista forces had control of the Cushuiriachic silver mining district in Chihuahua state, northern Mexico. Local legend has it that Pancho Villa's horse ate the plans while it temporarily resided in the mining office. That didn't put an end to the mining of the high-grade deposits that dot the hilly area, 120 km west of Chihuahua city. A 1928 report by Cusi Mexican Mines, which mentions Pancho Villa and the missing plans, describes Cusi as the perfect example of the "improvident method" of mining used in the old days, where "irregular" development saw ore extracted as fast as it was discovered, with no reserves.