Let M be a manifold with pinched negative sectional curvature. We show that, when M is geometrically finite and the geodesic flow on T^1M is topologically mixing, the set of mixing invariant measures is dense in the set P(T^1M) of invariant probability measures. This implies that the set of weak-mixing measures which are invariant by the geodesic flow is a dense G-delta subset of P(T^1M). We also show how to extend these results to geometrically infinite manifolds with cusps or with constant negative curvature.