Pan Pacific Copper buys 40% stake in S. America project

Sep 10, 2012 | 12:08 PM | Shivani Singh

Tags  Pan Pacific Copper, Frontera, copper, gold, Caserones, JX Nippon Mining & Metals, Mitsui Mining & Smelting, NFEx Resources Shivani Singh

SINGAPORE — Japan’s Pan Pacific Copper Co. Ltd. (PPC) has acquired a 40-percent interest in a copper/gold exploration project from the Japanese government.

The project encompasses nearly 60,000 acres in South America’s Frontera area, which stretches over the border between Chile and Argentina. The Frontera area is adjacent....





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