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Type: Public
Classification: Monitor
1177 WEST HASTINGS STREET, SUITE 2350
VANCOUVER
British Columbia
Canada, V6E 2K3
Phone: +1 604 685 2323
Fax: +1 604 629 5228


DEVELOPING BOLEO, MEXICO'S LARGEST COPPER/COBALT DEPOSIT


Baja Mining Corp. (“Baja”) owns a 100% interest in El Boleo Project, an advanced polymetallic (copper, cobalt, zinc, manganese) property located in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Baja has assembled an exceptional management team who are developing Mexico’s largest copper-cobalt deposit.

HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Definitive Feasibility Study completed
  • Approval received for Environmental Impact Manifest
  • Average annual production, for the first four years of production:
    • Copper cathode: 55,750 tonnes
    • Cobalt cathode: 1,535 tonnes
    • Zinc contained metal: 6,300 tonnes
  • Proven and probable reserves provide for 25 year mine life
  • Measured and Indicated resources: 277.2 million tonnes grading 1.77% copper equivalent
  • Inferred resources: 253.2 million tonnes grading 1.29% copper equivalent
  • Management ownership: approximately 24%
  • US$665 million first mortgage debt facility jointly mandated with the Export Import Bank of Korea (K-EXIM) and Bayerische Hypo-und Vereinsbank AG, a member of UniCredit Group.
  • US$ 64 million equipment lease secured
  • Minority partnership agreement signed with a Consortium of Korean companies for US$294 million (cash and project funding)
    • The Consortium members include:
      • Korea Resource Corporation
      • LS Nikko Copper Inc.
      • Hyundai Hysco Co. Ltd.
      • SK Networks Co. Ltd.
      • Iljin Copper Foil Co. Ltd.
  • Re-commencement of full construction activities and production start-up date currently under review


For more information go to:
www.bajamining.com


Company News

Friday, January 15, 2010
Baja Mining announced that an updated capital cost estimate and economic model have confirmed that the Boleo deposit in Baja California Sur, Mexico, is feasible at an after-tax internal rate of return (IRR) of 25.6% based on 100% equity. The project, which has a minimum scheduled mine life of 23 years, has a NPV of $1.306 billion using an eight percent discount rate and an average life of mine cash cost of negative $0.29/lb for copper, net of by-product credits

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