Foreign investment in the Mexican mining sector is a recent phenomenon, dating to reforms of the country’s mining law in 1990. Since then, the government has issued a total of 628 titles of mining exploration and production to foreign companies. In 2008 the foreign investment in Mexican mining projects accounted for 25 percent of all foreign investment inflows to Mexico. Canada is the largest source of foreign investment in Mexico’s mining industry.

Mexico remains unexplored if we consider that 22 to States of the 31 have mineral deposits, according with recent geological surveys 2/3 of the country possess ore deposits