El Mochito Mine
Located at Las Vegas in the department of Santa Barbara, near Lake Yojoa.
In 1948 the company «Rosario Resources Corporation» obtained the exploitation concession for this mine, to which a plant was installed that worked 24 hours a day, which is why the place gradually became a workers’ town; there is a report that dates the production of brushwood at an average of 1500 tons per day with lead, silver and zinc, minerals exported from Puerto Cortés to their final destinations in the United States of America, Japan, England and Germany.
In 1979 another report states that there are around 100 kilometers of underground galleries with electricity, a railway line and stations and drinking water pipes; galleries ranging from 1,750 to 2,475 feet deep.
Currently the concession property is held by the US company Breakwater Resources, a subsidiary of Pacific Honduras S.A. de C.V., «El Mochito» is an underground mine and the largest in Central America in the extraction of minerals: zinc, lead, cadmium, silver and gold of lower quality, it can be deduced that this vein, geologically organized from the cretaceous epoch.
