Tahoe dismisses a further 200 workers at Guatemala mine

Another 200 employees of the Minera San Rafael operation, in Guatemala, have lost their jobs, the Reno, Nevada-owner of the Escobal mine, Tahoe Resources, reported on Monday.

The company, which is in a long-running dispute with the Latin American nation and has not been able to produce silver from the Escobal mine since operations were shuttered in July 2017, said that it had now dismissed about 70% of the total workforce of Minera San Rafael.