LATIN AMERICAN COPPER FRONTIERS ECUADOR AND PANAMA--Latin American Copper Frontiers – Ecuador and Panama

摘要

Panama and Ecuador produce no copper. These two Latin American countries, however, will join the ranks ofmined copper producers in 2019. First Quantum is developing the 340ktpa Cobre Panamá mine. In Ecuador, aChinese consortium is building the 95ktpa Mirador mine. Ecuador in particular is an emerging mining frontier withits copper and gold potential attracting substantial exploration and development investment.