Solway Investment Group Enters Argentina
LARNAKA, Cyprus, October 31, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
Solway Investment group is pleased to announce the official opening of San Jorge Project office in Argentina. The Cyprus-based Investment group sees the event as another milestone in Solway's development strategy in the region. By opening a fully operational office in cooperation with Aterra Investments Ltd. and Coro mining Corp in the province of Mendoza the company's owners would like to confirm their long-lasting plans in further development of the Project located in the area.
San Jorge is a PFS stage heap leach copper project with a proposed open pit mine to extract oxide and enriched material. The proposed SXEW plant, acid plant and heap leach pads would be located in the neighbouring San Juan province. With mineral reserves of 48.4 million tonnes and an average grade of 0.61%CuT of which 55% is oxide and 45% is enriched,(1) the PFS proposed production would be 24k tpy of copper cathodes over a 10 year mine life.
Prior to this event Solway Industries Ltd., a subsidiary of the Solway Investment Group, signed a Definitive Agreement with a group comprised of Aterra Investments Ltd. and Coro mining Corp. that regulates the terms and conditions of the interest acquirement in San Jorge project.
"We are pleased to announce our new office opening and bring cooperation with Coro Mining Corp. and Aterra on the Minera San Jorge Project in Mendoza to the new level. I believe that Solway Investment Group's expertise in managing the projects of this scale in developed agricultural regions together with Coro's knowledge of the Project and Aterra's well-balanced investment strategy will produce a very successful outcome. Our objective is to create an up-to-date, modernized, ecologically safe and well-maintained business that will secure a high level of employment and significant tax return to the region," said Dan Bronstein, CEO of Solway Investment Group.
About Solway Industries Ltd.
Solway Industries Ltd. is a subsidiary of the Solway Investment Group Solway Investment Group is a Cyprus based International industrial group that comprises a number of core investments and operations focused primarily on the metals and mining sector, particularly on nickel mining and production. The Group also manages its own direct investment fund with the main interests in commercial real estate and information technologies. The Group conducts operations in the Central and Eastern Europe, Ukraine, Central America and South East Asia.
About Aterra Investments Ltd
Aterra Investments Ltd is a privately-held, investment management firm, which invests in metals and mining projects from late stage exploration to pre-production. Aterra's investment portfolio is geographically diversified with projects in both developed countries and frontier regions and includes more than 10 exploration, development and producing companies. Commodity focus includes copper, silver, phosphates, zinc, lead, diamonds and mineral sands.
About Coro Mining Corp.
Coro's strategy is to grow a mining business through the discovery, development and operation of "Coro type" deposits. Our preference is for open pit heap leach copper projects, where we will seek to minimise capital investment rather than maximise NPV, where we will prioritise profitability over production rate, and finally, where the likely capital cost is financeable relative to our market capitalization. Coro's properties include the Berta pre-production project, the Planta Prat copper development project, the Celeste Sur iron ore project and the Marimaca & Llancahue copper exploration prospects, all located in Chile, and the advanced San Jorge copper-gold project located in Argentina.
SOURCE Solway Industries Ltd
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