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Alfredo Cornejo travels to San Juan this Wednesday to participate in a new mining fair.
The agenda of Alfredo Cornejo and the Copper Table
From the Government House they confirmed ONE Diary that the governor of Mendoza’s agenda will include several meetings with businessmen of different nationalities.
According to what they said there will be investors from Turkey, Canada, Switzerland, United States, Italy, Poland, Peru, Germany, Colombia, Mexico, Chile and Japan.
Cornejo will also rub shoulders with the ambassadors from Canada, Reid Sirrs; from Poland, Aleksandra Pitkowska; from Brazil, Julio Glinternick Bitelli; and from Australia, Simon Twisk. Diplomats are also expected from the embassies of Sweden, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Spain, despite the international conflict between the Spanish president Pedro Sánchez and the Argentine Javier Milei.
The governor will lead the inauguration of the Mendoza stand at the Expo San Juan Minera 2024, which is scheduled for 3:00 p.m.; and later the entry of Mendoza and Jujuy to the Copper Table.
Malargüino copper and the hope of the San Jorge project
Mendoza goes with the premise of promoting the Malargüe Occidental Mining District and promote in San Juan the projects for copper exploration what’s in the area.
This month, the state company Impulsa Mendoza SA presented the draft Environmental Impact Declaration for an area of more than 20,000 km2 in which, among others, El Seguro, a copper porphyry acquired by the provincial firm, is located.
The intention is that those who have or acquire permits in that polygon can join the environmental impact study that has already been carried out and thus quickly obtain the approval needed from the Legislature to proceed with the exploration.
But attention will also be focused on the more advanced copper mega-enterprises in the provinces that are already part of the Copper Table such as Josemaría, Los Azules, Altar (San Juan) and Taca Taca (Salta). The businessmen who manage them will be present at the fair.
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While there will also be the highest representatives of other copper deposits such as Glencore MARA (Catamarca), El Pachón and Filo del Sol (San Juan).
Another of the advanced copper projects is San Jorge, the deposit that is located in Uspallatawhich has already been explored and for which the Argentine Chamber of Mining Companies has already requested its reactivation.
The CAEM estimated that if six copper projects that are in an advanced state, including the one in Mendoza, came into operation, Argentina would reach a production equivalent to 10% of the global copper deficit in 2035.
According to their calculations, carrying out these copper projects involves investments of at least 20 billion dollars.
What is special about San Jorge, unlike the copper projects in Malargüe promoted by the Government of Mendoza, is that the first one has already gone through the exploration stage. The subsequent necessary step would be a new environmental impact statement for its exploitation.
