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Fresnillo Company profile

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Fresnillo plc (FRES) is a major Mexican precious metals group, tracing its history back to 1887. The company prides itself on operating a 500-year-old mine.

Fresnillo operates a full mining value chain, offering exploration, development and construction services with a focus on gold and silver mining. Spread across Mexico, its operating sites include the Fresnillo, Saucito, Cienega, Herradura, Soledad-Dipolos, and Noche Buena mines.

The company has a long and strong history of mining, a proven track record of mine development and reserve replacement and it maintains competitive costs for silver. The company is dedicated to preserving its leading position as the world’s largest primary silver company and the largest gold producer in Mexico.

Fresnillo shares floated on the London Stock Exchange in May 2008, following a decades-long track record as a profitable mining company. The Fresnillo (FRES) stock is a constituent of the FTSE 100 stock market index. The company also underwent the secondary listing on the Mexican Stock Exchange. You can track the Fresnillo (FRES) stock price on the interactive chart and trade it with CFDs at Capital.com.

The Fresnillo share price has experienced significant fluctuations throughout its history, climbing from 104.9 on November 14, 2008, to over 2,150p on September 9, 2001. Looking at the FRES stock chart in 2020, we can see that in a 1-year period the Fresnillo share price has been fluctuating within a range of 456.51p – 1,379p.

Having reached the lowest point of 527p on March 16, 2020 during the sell-off, driven by the coronavirus pandemic, the FRES share price has rebounded almost to its year’s high of 1,310p in November 2020.

Commenting on the company’s third quarter results, Octavio Alvidrez, chief executive officer, said: “Our silver mines are performing in line with the forecasts we set out at the beginning of the year and our silver production outlook is unchanged, despite the disruption of this pandemic.” According to the company’s financial highlights for the first half of 2020, the Fresnillo’s gross profit was $321.2 million, which is 56 per cent up from the same period in 2019.

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