TORONTO, May 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Inmet Mining Corporation (IMN-TSX) today announced that Cobre Las Cruces, S.A. (CLC) has received notice from the Spanish water authority, Confederacion Hidrografica del Guadalquivir (CHG), of its decision to suspend the authorization for the dewatering and re-injection system (DRS) used at the Las Cruces project. The DRS is a system of wells around and within the Las Cruces open pit that removes water from the surrounding aquifer and re-injects it into adjacent wells to prevent water from flowing into the pit, thereby protecting the aquifer.

CHG has also indicated that CLC should not expose the ore in the pit during the period of ...