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The government of the province
Lumina Copper miner reported on the work in progress and projects
25/04/2012 | At a meeting with the governor of Salta, detailed company concerning the work performed in the Taca Taca mine located in Tolar Grande. They pointed out that the results in five holes gave the highest ratings of continuous copper found to date.
The Governor of the Province, Juan Manuel Urtubey received on Tuesday representatives of Lumina Copper mining company, a company's exploration and development of copper in Argentina. The meeting was held in the private office of Government House.
On this occasion the members of the company Lumina Copper unveiled the provincial president of the company performs work and projects.
In Tolar Grande, the mine has mining Taca Taca, a project of copper / gold / molybdenum, comprising approximately 2,500 hectares.
In 2010 the company made in Taca Taca Lumina a deep penetrating geophysical survey that led to start a program of 6,000 meters of drilling, which was expanded to 40,000 meters in January of this year.
The work was done to expand the known mineralization and mine planning studies to evaluate various alternative extraction methods. The results in five holes in Taca Taca gave higher grades continuous copper found to date.
Participated in the meeting the Secretary of Mining, Ricardo Salas, the founder of Lumina Cooper and principal shareholder Ross Beaty, chairman of the company, David Strong, Vice President of Corporate Development Lumina Cooper, Marshall Koval, and Taca Project Manager - Taca, William Almandoz.
Lumina Copper Company
The Taca Taca reservoir was discovered in 1967 by Military Industries. In the 90 was drilled by BHP Billiton with current Argentina.
Since its discovery, there have been over 24,000 meters of drilling in 156 wells, with depths averaging 250 meters, reaching some 520 meters to reach.
Mineral exploration in Salta
Last year ended with very good numbers for the mining sector Salta. Output expanded by 57% to reach the 374,379 tons of minerals, against 238,185 in 2009. Foreign sales also recorded a positive result: increased about 14.83%, measured by volume.
In total, 110,875 tons were exported, against 96,559 in 2009. Quantified by FOB value, sales reached the $ s 70.8 million, 18% more than last year (u $ s 59.96 million).
Skip mineral exploration in this year marked a new record of drilling will be driven by the work of Golden Mineral (The Quevar) Lumina Copper (Taca Taca), Regulus Resources (Rio Grande), Skip Explorations (Pancho Arias) and companies they are looking for lithium in the salt mines.