Baja Mining Corp. said this morning it has started underground mining of copper/cobalt/zinc ore at its Boleo mine near Santa Rosalia, Baja California Sur, Mexico. This is the first stage of an 18 month program, ramping up to full underground production in March 2013, the Vancouver-based company said. The mine’s first continuous mining unit...
Baja Mining Corp. said today that a key milestone has been achieved towards manganese metal production at its Boleo project in Baja, Mexico. Staff at the University of British Columbia’s Hydrometallurgy Research Laboratory have successfully demonstrated that manganese metal can be manufactured from Boleo manganese carbonate using conventional hydrometallurgical processing steps, the company reported....
Revised capital cost estimates for its Boleo copper/cobalt project in Baja California Sur are down 12% in a new study, Baja Mining Corp. said today. As expected, the company reported, the slowing of the original construction schedule at Boleo has enabled it to take advantage of a reduced cost environment. Given the recent rapid...
