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Arizona Sonoran Copper Engages Ausenco to Lead the Cactus and Parks/Salyer Pre-feasibility Study and Appoints Victor Moraila as Chief Engineer
Ausenco appointed as lead engineering firm for the Cactus & Parks/Salyer Integrated Pre-Feasibility Study (“PFS”) ASCU Appoints Victor Moraila as Chief Engineer
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[{"type":"text","content":" Ausenco appointed as lead engineering firm for the Cactus & Parks/Salyer Integrated Pre-Feasibility Study (“PFS”) ASCU Appoints Victor Moraila as Chief Engineer PFS will examine the potential of adding significant scale to the heap leach and SXEW flowsheet as envisioned in the 2021 Cactus Project Preliminary Economic Assessment (“PEA”) CASA GRANDE, Ariz. & TORONTO / Mar 06, 2023 / Business Wire / PFS sourcing and procurement practices will focus on an “Arizona-First” approach, favouring procurement from within the state Arizona Sonoran Copper Company Inc. (TSX:ASCU | OTCQX:ASCUF) (“ASCU” or the “Company”) today announces the engagement of Ausenco Pty Ltd out of Tucson, as lead engineer to deliver an integrated Pre-feasibility Study (“PFS”) at the Cactus and Parks/Salyer Project (the “Project”) by early 2024. The Project, on private land, is a brownfields site with in-place infrastructure and is accessible via highway, 45 miles south of Phoenix, Arizona. Additionally, the Company is pleased to announce the appointment of Victor Moraila as Chief Engineer, joining as the Company transitions into a US-based copper developer. George Ogilvie, ASCU President and CEO commented, “As ASCU emerges as a mid-tier copper developer, we are thrilled to welcome the depth of experiences of both Victor and Ausenco; each rooted in quality and value-driven projects. Victor’s surface mining experience will be invaluable in optimizing the projects, complementing our existing underground mining experience and Ausenco is an elite firm whose expertise involves all project areas extending to geology, mining, infrastructure and financial modelling. Looking forward, ASCU is bolstering the technical services team, necessary team to deliver domestically produced copper into the US copper supply chain, from the third largest independent copper deposit in the US.” Ian McMullan, ASCU COO commented, “The PFS will be the platform to consider significant copper production scale via a process design of heap leach and SXEW. We see the further opportunity to continue scaling the project pending the success of the Nuton program, and any future exploration success along the mine trend.” Prefeasibility Study: Ausenco will initially review the Cactus draft PFS and incorporate into the new re-scoped PFS, which includes Parks/Salyer. The study will explore a simple...