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Los Azules on Minesite.com UK

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Los Azules property mentioned on MineSite writeup - Back-in option deleted by Xstrata possibly, no mention of TNR's 25% but nice to see a property talked about overseas in UK!$0$0$0$0$0$0$0https://www.minesite.com/nc/minews/singlenews/article/minera-andes-poised-for-expansion-off-a-very-solid-base/1.html$0$0$0$0$0$0Minera Andes also has an option to earn a 100 per cent interest in the Los Azules copper project in San Juan province near the Chilean border, currently owned by Xstrata Copper. This looks like a big one, though whether it will be big enough to persuade Xstrata to exercise its buy-back clause is not yet known. If Xstrata did exercise that clause it would mean that Xstrata would be satisfied that any mine there could produce 100,000 tonnes of copper a year for 10 years which is a big ask. As it is, Minera Andes is carrying out a scoping study and economic analysis and much more will be known once the results of this study are published before the year end. In the meantime the company has recently announced an initial inferred resource estimate for the project at a 0.35% copper cut-off, amounting to 922 million tonnes at 0.55% copper giving 11.2 billion pounds of copper, which is a good start. $0$0What is even more important is that there is a near surface high grade copper core which was first identified back in 2006. This could boost the economics of a starter pit which would mean that production could start earlier than anticipated. Anyway, Los Azules already qualifies as one of the largest new undeveloped copper deposits in Argentina and this may be why a galaxy of stars joined the board recently, including Rod McEwen of Goldcorp fame who has a holding in Minera Andes amounting to 38 per cent. He has brought with him Victor Lazarovici, who has had a career as a base metals and minerals analyst with leading firms in New York, and Don Quick who was a director of Goldcorp and instrumental in its biggest deals. With people like this on board, it will be no surprise if Minera Andes comes up with some interesting deals, and opportunities should certainly abound in the coming months. $0$0