CANDENTE
Candente pushes for production at Caņariaco
Copper
We like the fact
that Peru likes mining, it is a country
with a mining tradition and a mining mind,
says Canadian CEO of Candente Resource Corp
(CRC), Joanne Freeze (INTERVIEW),
P. Geo., who ten years after establishing
the company is hoping to see it as a producer
by 2010.
CRC was co-founded
in 1997 by Ms Freeze and partner Ing. Fredy
Huanqui, a Peruvian geologist, after their
involvement in the discovery of the Pierina
mine. Today CRC has several copper, gold
and silver prospects in Peru, of which the
most advanced are Cañariaco and Alto
Dorado, and a gold-silver project in Mexico.
Ms Freeze says that CRC, which currently
employs 140 to 200 workers per day at Cañariaco,
is working to ensure that the project benefits
the local community as much as possible.
“At Cañariaco,
we have eight billion pounds of copper but
we are still drilling and finding more.
We are carrying out feasibility for production
with just the starter pit so we can fast
track to production but we are confident
that the larger part of the deposit will
also be economic,” she notes.
