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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001104659-14-022576
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	CORRESP
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
FILED AS OF DATE:		20140325

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			McEwen Mining Inc.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000314203
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	GOLD & SILVER ORES [1040]
		IRS NUMBER:				840796160
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			CO
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		SUITE 2800
		STREET 2:		150 KING STREET WEST
		CITY:			TORONTO
		STATE:			A6
		ZIP:			M5H 1J9
		BUSINESS PHONE:		647-258-0395

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		SUITE 2800
		STREET 2:		150 KING STREET WEST
		CITY:			TORONTO
		STATE:			A6
		ZIP:			M5H 1J9

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	U S GOLD CORP
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19920703

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	U S SILVER STATE MINING CORP
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19880706

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	SILVER STATE MINING CORP
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19880629
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">March&nbsp;25, 2014</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Attention: Tia Jenkins, Senior Assistant Chief Accountant</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Dear Ms.&nbsp;Jenkins:</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">We refer to your correspondence dated March&nbsp;12, 2014, addressed to Robert McEwen, CEO of McEwen Mining Inc. (&#147;McEwen Mining&#148;, the &#147;Company&#148; or &#147;we&#148;).&#160; The comments relate to earlier letters addressed to McEwen Mining, dated December&nbsp;13, 2013, January&nbsp;15, 2014, and February&nbsp;14, 2014, to which we have replied on December&nbsp;27, 2013, January&nbsp;28, 2014, and February&nbsp;28, 2014, respectively.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">This letter contains responses to the comments contained in your March&nbsp;12, 2014 letter. Where appropriate, we have included specific language proposed to be included in the relevant report in response to the comments, which we would like you to review in advance of filing a formal amendment.&#160; In other instances, we are providing information supplementally in response to the comments.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Accordingly, the Company&#146;s responses are as follows:</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Form&nbsp;10-K for the Year Ended December&nbsp;31, 2012</font></u></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">General</font></u></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .3in;text-indent:-.3in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">1.</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">We note your comment 1, and confirm that we will amend our 2012 Form&nbsp;10-K as soon as reasonably practicable to incorporate the audited financial statements of </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Minera Santa Cruz (&#147;MSC&#148;)</font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;"> for the year ended December&nbsp;31, 2012, and will review our financial statements and KPMG&#146;s audit report as necessary in the event that there are changes arising from the audit of MSC&#146;s financial statements. MSC management and their independent auditor, Ernst&nbsp;&amp; Young LLP, have begun the process with respect to the preparation and audit of these financial statements, and have communicated their intentions to have these available as soon as possible.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .3in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Further, as permitted under Rule&nbsp;3-09 of Regulation S-X and Item 17 of Form&nbsp;20-F, it is our intention to file MSC financial statements prepared under Argentine GAAP rather than IFRS as issued by the IASB as noted in our response letter to the staff dated December&nbsp;27, 2013. We believe this will expedite our ability to file the amended 2012 Form&nbsp;10-K.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .3in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">With respect to our consideration of Item 1B. <i>Unresolved Staff Comments,</i> it is our understanding that these comments did not require disclosure in the 2013 Form&nbsp;10-K, as they were first issued less than 180 days prior to our year-end.&#160; Our understanding is based on the general instructions provided for Form&nbsp;10-K,&nbsp;Item 1B, which provide in pertinent part as follows:</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;">If the registrant is an accelerated filer or a large accelerated filer (&#133;), and has received written comments from the Commission staff regarding its periodic or current reports under the Act <u>not less than 180 days before the end of its fiscal year to which the annual report relates</u>, and such comments remain unresolved, disclose the substance of any such unresolved comments that the registrant believes are material (&#133;). </font></i><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">[Emphasis added]</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .3in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">The first comments were raised by the staff on December&nbsp;13, 2013, significantly less than 180 days before our first year-end, and as such we do not believe disclosure in the Form&nbsp;10-K is necessary. We further note, as discussed in Release No.&nbsp;33-8591, that this comment is not &#147;unresolved&#148;, since the staff and the Company have agreed that it will be addressed in future filings.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .3in;text-indent:-.3in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">2.</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">We will include a revised accounting consent that is signed and refers to the Minera Andes consolidated financial statements for December&nbsp;31, 2011, as incorporated by reference to the amended Form&nbsp;8-K filed on January&nbsp;24, 2014 by filing a Form 8-K by the end of the current week.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:-.5in;"><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Products, page&nbsp;5</font></u></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .3in;text-indent:-.3in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">3.</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">We believe this </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">comment</font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;"> (with the exception of filing MSC audited financial statements, discussed in comment 1 above) has been addressed with the filing of Amendment No.&nbsp;1 to our 2012 Form10-K on March&nbsp;10, 2014, addressing the following items relevant to this comment:</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .75in;text-indent:-.25in;"><font size="2" face="Symbol" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&#183;</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">On pages&nbsp;9, 13, 18 and 19, we removed tonnage and grades estimated by using geologic inference (inferred resources) from mineralized material tabulations;</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .75in;text-indent:-.25in;"><font size="2" face="Symbol" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&#183;</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">On pages&nbsp;17, 18 and 24, we provided the additional disclosures relating to the tonnage, grade, and recovery rate of our mining operations; and</font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .75in;text-indent:-.25in;"><font size="2" face="Symbol" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&#183;</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">In Exhibit&nbsp;10.8, we provided a copy of our refining agreement.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Item 9.A. Controls and Procedures, page&nbsp;103</font></u></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .3in;text-indent:-.3in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">4.</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">We have designed our disclosure controls and procedures to provide &#147;reasonable assurance&#148; of achieving their objectives, namely to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the Commission&#146;s rules&nbsp;and forms, and to ensure that such information is accumulated and communicated to the Company&#146;s management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. We respectfully advise the Staff that our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that, as of December&nbsp;31, 2012, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective at the &#147;reasonable assurance&#148; level.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .3in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Section&nbsp;II.F.4 of Release No.&nbsp;33-8238 discusses the term &#147;reasonable assurance,&#148; noting that &#147;it is built into the definition of internal control over financial reporting,&#148; and referencing Statement on Auditing Standards AU &#167; 319.18. Section&nbsp;13(b)(7)&nbsp;of the Exchange Act defines &#147;reasonable assurance&#148; for internal control over financial reporting as &#147;such level of detail and degree of assurance as would satisfy prudent officials in the conduct of their own affairs.&#148; The accounting literature also has various definitions of &#147;reasonable assurance,&#148; including (a)&nbsp;high but not absolute assurance, (b)&nbsp;probable, and (c)&nbsp;a remote likelihood of non-occurrence.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .3in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer considered such definitions of &#147;reasonable assurance&#148; in determining that our disclosure controls and procedures were functioning effectively at a &#147;reasonable assurance&#148; level as of December&nbsp;31, 2012. Although the Company inadvertently failed to file the MSC financial statement with the Commission, such failure represents an unusual exception to the Company&#146;s long history of compliance with the reporting requirements under the Exchange Act. In over 30 years of reporting history, we are unaware of a similar omission by the Company, and we believe that this history of compliance supports the conclusion that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective at a &#147;reasonable assurance&#148; level.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">We would appreciate confirmation from the staff that the foregoing responses are adequate.&#160; Upon receipt of such confirmation, the Company will prepare and file an amendment to its annual report promptly.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">We look forward to hearing from you.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Sincerely,</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">MCEWEN MINING INC.</font></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Nils F. Engelstad</font></p>
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