Montero Mining and Exploration Ltd V.MON

Alternate Symbol(s): MXTRF

Metals & Mining Industrial Metals & Minerals

Montero Mining and Exploration Ltd. is a Canada-based mineral exploration and development company focused on making mineral discoveries in Chile. The Company's Avispa Copper-Molybdenum Project (Avispa Project) is located in the Atacama region of northern Chile, west of the town of Calama and 220 kilometers north-east of Antofagasta, Chile's largest commercial deep-water port. The project is connected by asphalt road to the ports of Tocopilla and Antofagasta. The Company has approximately 459 square kilometers of exploration mining concessions in an almost contiguous area south of the main highway between Calama and Tocopilla. It is involved in an international arbitration dispute for compensation for the expropriation of a Wigu Hill rare earth element project in Tanzania and against the government of Tanzania.