RE: NEWS OF INTEREST..Must Read Here is that article Pilisao posted in a Salta newspaper translated to English using the Google translation system. It's not a perfect translation no doubt, but the bottomline is once again we have a STRONG indication that Salta in a very favourable pro-mining Province in Argentina and Goldrock has the support of the government to turn the Lindero gold deposit into the Lindero gold producing mine.
Thanks to Pilisao!
Cheers, SL
Jorge Mayoral: "The Belgrano Cargo is a dream of productive activity and commitment of the national government"
The Secretary of the National Mining reviewed some of the country's most important projects, investment and mining work in Salta
Monday, 05.13.2013 | 21:44 pm
This week marked the bicentenary of the first mining decree promulgated by the Assembly of Year XXIII. With this excuse, journalist Alejandra Cardona, interviewed in the program "Talk of Mine", broadcast by Radio 10, salteñas naps, the Secretary of the National Mining Jorge Mayoral. The official, reviewed some of the country's most important projects, investment and mining work in Salta and Salta have noted that as shaft mining in Salta Strategic Development Plan 2030.
- What was the outcome of his meeting with the CEO of Goldrock, Lindero project about?
- We are constantly working with different mining operators that generate and invest and create projects, mainly working for the Argentines in Argentina many places deep, as always expresses the president, Cristina.
In this case, it was a meeting we had with the people of Goldrock, with the new CEO of the company, who have the Lindero mining project in Salta, and it actually is a continuation of a meeting we had with Paul Matysek in the city of Vancouver, in January this year, when he made the 1st Seminar on Mining in that city, which certainly has been so important in this process of recovery and Argentina mining development, especially of metal mining in Argentina so far since 2003 to date.
There, in an event that became a major law firm in that city, I had a chance to meet Matysek, we agreed to continue the meeting during the PDAC meeting in Toronto in the first week of March, and the truth that issues that are public knowledge and they have to do with the Rio Colorado Potash project in Mendoza, I did not travel to Toronto, traveled on my team, it was an important delegation of Argentina inclusive, mining actors of Salta, but could not meet. What we did, this time was complete and received by the CEO of Goldrock, very good information on the current project boundary which incidentally, generates such high expectations of Salta.
- Why Lindero is so important to our province?
- Lindero is a project that has a lot of valuable features, and that at this very moment, having finished the feasibility of the project, in the design of what would be the basket of financing to, in short time, to begin construction. It's a worthwhile investment, because they will be more than 930/950 million. During more than 15 months will be able to give employment to over 1,000 workers in Argentina, and what is nice is that the continuity of the task when the project goes into production, as I manifested Goldrock CEO, will generate 400 direct jobs and a similar number of indirect, caused by the phenomenon of expansion of the economy, the multiplier effect when mining starts.
- How do you assess management in the province?
- We are with a lot of expectations and obviously thrilled that Skip can both receive an investment of this nature in metal mining, because the truth is that is doing great things, we're very pleased with the work that we carry along with the province of Salta, in the person of the Governor, as the person most responsible for the activity in the province, with Ricardo Salas and the minister of production and the people in the public mining company, the truth is that Skip is working with a lot of consistency and I think the results in terms of performance both prospectively and exploratory and obviously in this case, productive, are obvious. A few days ago presented the Strategic Development Plan 2030 Salta where mining is considered a productive activity axis.
What also agreed who participated in this Plan are the infrastructure requirements to achieve these objectives. Specifically, it is required to implement and improve rail routes (punctually 51) to facilitate the development and accessibility to the production centers.
- What will be done from the national government in this regard?
- I took part a few days ago, from the table that inaugurated one of 5 pre-congress established the CAI, in November 2014. They play four topics and one of them is the approach of mining. So you can imagine, there were present as a way to strengthen and support the idea that they have the engineering professionals across the country to carry out such initiatives, but I say ... we was fortunate to share with authorities in Salta, the table, and there I had an opportunity to hear a presentation on this that you're commenting on me, on strategic planning, and the important role that is assigned to a very important part of geography Salta to mining.
It is very clear that the future strategic vision of sustained growth in activity, in terms of development, in terms of productivity, must come rhythmic naturally a dowry logistics sector systemic competitiveness. And on that matter, Argentina grows, so does the hand of infrastructure development and should not aim for the fulfillment of expectations for what is planned to become effective.
So everything that we add in land routes and what we add on rail, and you you named the Belgrano Cargo is a dream productive activity is a commitment of the national government, which also carries out an activity in terms of development and recovery of basic infrastructure in logistics and transportation are not considered, by the way, an expense but as an investment.
For precisely these investments of benefit to do much more practical and much more favorable enhancement of productive activity. So, in Salta and in other parts of the country, these questions are necessary and work together we can realize the different jurisdictions and involved in this also to municipalities, naturally they will be the answers for tomorrow actually is accompanied the realization of these strategic visions with the needs of infrastructure development afincamientos.
- What is your opinion today on Easter Lama and Vale, in two words?
- In the case of Vale is a topic related to the thinning of the wallet of the operator. The story is very shortie: they live to sell iron, and last year sold less iron and cheaper. They lost 3mil million and consequently, as the expectations that were not very flattering, then decided to retract investments.
They left France, went to Norway, they left Canada, they went to Colombia, sold the largest fleet of ships that exist in corporate terms or productive a company and also were four Brazilian states. Well, now they had to take the decision that can not afford to continue to invest in Argentina. A few days ago, I followed the statements of Marco Aurelio Garcia, who is the principal adviser of President Dilma, and was the principal adviser to President Lula.
He says: "It is a discourtesy to make this decision," according slogan Economic Supplement of the newspaper La Nación, "when there was a plan on the table to make it all possible." The project seeks to value Potasios. The potasios are fertilizers used in the world to produce agro-food and agro-food are a necessity to combat hunger of mankind. So that this is a project that may not paralyzed, it will keep going, you might, new international operators who continue placing value in the shortest time possible.
- What about Pascua Lama?
- Concerning binational comment: Lama project on the Argentine side is Easter and the Chilean side. The sum of the two fully make binational projects. The binational project has very large reserves of minerals, but more or less to 70 or 75% of those minerals are on the side of Chile, at the site known as Easter, and the remainder, 25-30% are on the side of Argentina. But in Argentina have an advantage: it is all the industrial complex which minerals will try to give added value. This means that the large investment in Argentina in terms of cubic meters of concrete and shaped iron.
As the project progressed and advanced in connection with a single mining integration and foundational in the world, was said journalistically, doubted that Argentina would match Chile consequence of the lack of experience I had in Argentina development. Well, you look important years have elapsed, the integration treaty became state policy in both countries.
Luckily, one of the projects progressed, which is this, Lama, was begun and this is the first milestone in the real economy that is done in this way in the world and those who avizoraban that Argentina could not keep up with the consequences were wrong because Argentina has a very concrete before and very successfully Lama project, having taken all the scientific and technological challenges involved in building such a mass more than 4400mts high. And the truth is that the problems avizoraban appeared in Chile related to the development of Easter, primarily in terms of site preparation.
- What are the problems that arise for no progress Chile?
- Problems that occur at this time in Chile are, according to our Chilean colleagues operator's own judgment and merely circumstantial and therefore will not cause any problem in the development Lama project in Argentina. And this I want to say very strongly, because today in this project, the Argentine side, there are 13,000 Argentines working and hundreds of goods and services companies are doing many good business.
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