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With the state capital, Pachuca, just 90 km north of Mexico City, Hidalgo’s location has long been a draw for investment. Economic growth in the country’s capital has attracted even more attention to the central state as it is the only flat territory that Mexico City and its suburbs can expand to. Its strategic location has brought transport and logistics infrastructure, as...

The potential of Hidalgo as an industrial hub is hardly a new discovery, stemming back to the 1950s when the manufacturing city of Fray Bernardino de Sahagún in the southern municipality of Tepeapulco was founded as part of a federal government initiative to house the Mexican automotive producer National Diesel, also known as DINA, and national rail construction company...

The mining sector is one of the longest-operating industries in Mexico, extending back almost 500 years. According to the Mining Chamber of Mexico (Cámara Minera de México, Camimex), the country was the world’s number-one producer of silver, the seventh-largest producer of copper and the ninth-largest producer of gold in 2017, and responsible for 1.7% of the world’s output of...