La Minera Vicuña, made up of the Canadian Lundin Mining and the Australian BHPreported on Monday that resource calculations place its integrated projects Filo del Sol and Josemaríaon the border between Argentina and Chile, as one of the largest copper, gold and silver deposits in the world.
In a statement, Vicuña affirmed that the new evaluation of resources in Filo del Sol and Josemaría “Consolidated the position of the project as one of the world’s largest copper, gold and silver deposits.
Vicuña is an association participated in equal parts by Lundin Mining and BHP to develop jointly and integrated the Filo del Sol and Josemaría projects.
Filo del Sol is in the exploration stage, while Josemaría is in a preconstruction phase.
Both are located in the Argentine province of San Juan (West), although A part of the sun’s edge also extends by territory Atacama region.
Together, Vicuña is located Among the top 10 districts in copper mineral resources in the worldcon 12.8 million tons of measured copper and 25.1 million tons inferred.
It also contains 32.2 million ounces of gold measured and 48.7 million inferred ounces, as well as 659 million Silver ounces measures and 808 million inferred ounces.
Most of these resources corresponds to Sun’s edgethat for Jack Lundin, president and executive director of Lundin Mining“has been One of the most significant discoveries of the last 30 years“.
The Executive said in a statement that “Filo del Sol and the Vicuña district are ready to become a World class deposit which will support a world -renowned mining complex. “
