TNR Gold TNR.v: Los Azules, Xstrata and Minera Andes MAI.to stakes are rising with Copper price. TNR.v, MAI.to, XTA.l

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Minera Andes MAI.to has published on 19.03.2009 on SEDAR 43-101 Technical Report in Support of the Preliminary Assessment on the Development of the Los Azules Project, San Juan, Argentina.

TNR Gold TNR.v and its Argentina subsidiary Solitario filed lawsuits according to pages from the report above. At stake is 25% back in right on 50% of the Los Azules Northern part with a high grade core, effectively 12.5% of the total deposit.

To make things interesting throw into the picture legendary Robert McEwen with his latest investment of 40 million in Minera Andes after corporate fight for the company, power broker Lukas Lundin with his stake in MAI.to and Xstrata which will have to make a decision of 51% back in within 90 days from legal notice from Minera Andes after publishing this report.

Stakes are rising literally with rising Copper prices: project is highly leveraged to Copper price:

"Project is very capital intensive at 2.7 bln USD and highly leveraged to Copper prices: with increase of 11% in Copper long term price at 2.1 USD per lb NPV is rising 100% to 1 bln USD."