TRADING ALERT - Int'l PBX Ventures (PBX:TSX-V) Up 31% on 517K Shares
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Jan 11, 2013 11:27AM
Last Traded: $0.08 Up: $0.02
Perentage: 31% Vol. 517K Shares
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PBX Signs JV option agreement to allow OZ Minerals to earn a 90% interest in Copaquire by making cash payments of $90 million and drilling up to 30,000 meters.
OZ Minerals Now Drilling Multiple Targets
International PBX Ventures Ltd. engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral properties in Chile. The company explores for copper, molybdenum and gold deposits and owns 100% interests in eight properties comprising 25,000 hectares in Chile. Its principal project is the Copaquire, an advanced staged exploration project of some 2,000 hectares covering a major copper-molybdenum porphyry system located in the prolific copper-molybdenum porphyry belt of northern Chile. This arc-parallel belt includes 30 porphyry Cu-Mo deposits and prospects with the largest amount of copper concentration in the world, totalling about 220 million tonnes of copper. Teck's Quebrada Blanca and Xstrata/Anglo American's Collahuasi mines are within 15 kilometres of the Copaquire property.
The Copaquire project is one of the most unique copper-moly projects in all of South America containing both high grade molybdenum and copper. A molybdenum rich core (Cerro Moly) surrounded by a large porphyry copper system (Sulfato) with grades of up to 2% copper.
Location: | Region I, Northern Chile |
Ownership: | 100% |
Type of Ore body: | Copper, molybdenum and rhenium porphyry |
Primary Metal: | Copper |
Secondary Metals: | Molybdenum, rhenium |
Processing: | Potential crush, grind & floation |
Infrastructure | Accessible by road, 125 km southeast of the city of Iquique |
OZ MINERALS OPTION AGREEMENT
In May 2012 PBX signed a definitive Joint Venture Option Agreement with OZ Exploration Chile Limitada, a wholly owned subsidiary of OZ Minerals Limited of Australia, on PBX's Copaquire copper molybdenum property. The terms of the Agreement allow OZ Minerals to earn a 90% interest in Copaquire by making cash payments of $90 million and drilling up to 30,000 m.
COPAQUIRE HIGHLIGHTS