type public traded as tsx paa nasdaq paas industry metals founded 1994 headquarters vancouver canada key people michael steinmann ceo revenue us 301 million 2007 number of employees 7 300 website www.panamericansilver.com pan american silver corporation is a mining company in canada . the company has mines and other projects in the united states mexico peru bolivia and argentina . in 2006 the company extracted 709 tonnes of silver 2.1 tonnes of gold 59 000 tonnes of zinc 27 000 tonnes of lead and 5 700 tonnes of copper . history edit 1 pan american silver is the continuing corporation of pan american energy corporation which was incorporated under the company act british columbia on march 7 1979 . the company underwent two name changes in september 1984 to pan american minerals corp. and finally in april 1995 the company was renamed pan american silver corp. pan american silver was founded in april 1994 by ross beaty and john wright after equinox resources which had been founded and built with a successful gold mining company by mr. beaty was taken over by a well known u.s. mining company . mr. beaty realized that the fundamentals of the silver market warranted an increase in the long term price of silver and that there were few well valued and well structured stocks available to investors interested in gaining exposure to silver . references edit http www.panamericansilver.com company history see also edit official site this article about a canadian corporation or company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title pan american silver & oldid 733951515 categories companies listed on the toronto stock exchangemining companies of canadas & p tsx composite indexsilver mining companiescanadian company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 11 august 2016 at 04 39 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view