Investigations continue and the accident scene has been barricaded.
Normal operations have resumed in all other areas of the mine after a review of all active underground faces confirmed that operating conditions are safe.
The shortfall in production from the 3 day shutdown is not expected to affect production guidance for 2014.
Capstone Mining Corp. is a Canadian base metals mining company, focused on copper. Our three producing mines are the Pinto Valley copper mine located in Arizona, US, the Cozamin copper-silver mine in Zacatecas State, Mexico and the Minto copper mine in Yukon, Canada.
In addition, Capstone has two copper development projects; the large scale 70% owned copper-iron Santo Domingo project in Region III, Chile, in partnership with Korea Resources Corporation, and the 100% owned copper-zinc Kutcho project in British Columbia, Canada, as well as exploration properties in Chile and Mexico.
