LAS VEGAS, March 29, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Asia Broadband Inc. (OTC: AABB) (“AABB” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that the Company is expecting to receive its initial deliveries of new mining processing and facilities equipment within 4 to 6 weeks. AABB’s management and technical consultants have set a 3rd quarter 2023 completion timeline to bring the new processing facility into full operations on the Etzatlan, Mexico site. The Company’s equipment supply agents and distributors in Asia have confirmed the receiving logistics timing despite the recent industry challenges with equipment deliveries. The new plant will utilize advanced mining equipment automation and efficiencies to maximize processing throughput and metals extraction and minimize the production costs. Additionally, the new facility will be built with expanded processing capability that will be implemented after the initial production levels have been established.
In December 2022, AABB completed the land purchase for the site of the new processing facility to be constructed with respect to the terms of the historic and long-term processing and production agreement signed previously for a large-scale gold and silver ore stockpile located in Las Jimenez, Etzatlan, Jalisco, Mexico. The agreement allows the Company exclusivity to purchase the 4 million ton ore stockpile at an economically feasible price point. A recent evaluation report has estimated the stockpile to represent over $800 million in total gold and silver value. The stockpile processing project is the largest high-yield asset addition for the Company to date in its strategic expansion initiative to acquire gold production and increase AABB’s physical gold holdings.
The 4.94 hectare processing plant land parcel, that includes a water concession, is located approximately 5.8 miles from the ore stockpile in Etzatlan, Mexico, and 48 miles from the AABB Buenavista mining warehouse. The new facility build-out is budgeted for a $3 million cost and is initially planned to have a 200 ton per day (tpd) processing capacity. At this first level of processing, the mill is estimated to generate over $11 million in revenue annually. The Company will also be accelerating a mill expansion installation to increase the processing capacity 5 fold to 1,000 tpd, once the initial processing level of the mill is consistently at capacity.
“The primary suppliers of processing plant equipment in Asia are experiencing challenges to meet delivery times, but we are working around this effectively to stay on path with our facility installation timeline. The revenue from our ore stockpile processing agreement project this year will be the foundation of ABBB’s growth to the next level of operations and expansion in all areas of our business,” expressed Chris Torres, AABB President and CEO.
In other Company news, management is planning to release a mineral properties update in the coming weeks. Additionally, AABB is pleased to report that $1 million in gold bullion was added to its corporate holdings from mining production in 2022 for gold-backing of its Golden Baboons Mining Club (GBMC) Non-Fungible Token (“NFT”) collection and other digital asset projects. This recent milestone reached by the Company further advances the AABB program to expand its physical gold asset base through its mining operations.
About Asia Broadband
Asia Broadband Inc. (OTC: AABB) is a resource company focused on the production, supply and sale of precious and base metals, primarily to Asian markets. The Company utilizes its specific geographic expertise, experience and extensive industry contacts to facilitate its innovative distribution process from the production and supply of precious and base metals in Mexico to client sales networks in Asia. This vertical integration approach to sales transactions is the unique strength of AABB that differentiates the Company and creates distinctive value for shareholders. Additionally, the Company has added a digital assets business segment with its AABBG freshly minted mine-to-token gold-backed cryptocurrency within its AABB Wallet, a proprietary digital exchange AABBExchange, a proprietary cryptocurrency payment gateway solution PayAABB.com and its Golden Baboons Mining Club NFT collection. AABB expects its token to become a world-wide standard of exchange that is stable, secured and trusted with gold backing, while having the added benefit of demand based price appreciation. These are unique and outstanding qualities relative to other cryptocurrencies.
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