Aguila American Gold Limited (V.AGL) Reports: Growing Global Confidence in the Evolving Poli-Economic Climate in Peru
2011年7月18日 - 11:32PM
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Aguila American Gold Limited ("Aguila") or (The "Company") or (TSX
VENTURE: AGL) Reports;
On July 28th, 2011 president-elect Ollanta Humala will be sworn
in as the next President of Peru for a 5 year term. Along with this
ceremony, the new Peruvian Parliament will also begin to take their
seats. Incoming President Humala's party mandate represents
approximately one third of the Parliament in a democratic country
where 32% of population are currently living in poverty. Both
leading presidential candidates cited; "the elimination of extreme
poverty" as one of their top priorities during their presidential
election campiagns.
Since the federal election results were announced on June 5th
2011, major mining companies with operations in Peru have begun to
relay confidence in president-elect Humala's vision for socio-
economic development alongside a burgeoing domestic mining
industry. A recent Thompson Reuters report released on June 8th,
2011 cited comments from top economic advisors of the
president-elect Humala reiterating assurances to soundly manage one
of the world's fastest-growing emerging market economies.
A July 7th article published on Bloomberg.com also cited
positive commentary from, the president of the National Society of
Mining, Petroleum & Energy in Peru, Mr. Pedro Martinez. Mr.
Martinez also highlights president-elect Humala's intentions to
meet with mining companies and continue open discourse on the
windfall profit tax of producing mining companies (as opposed to a
previously proposed "unilateral corporate tax"). According to the
article, key representatives will meet with Humala's advisors to
reach a solution that will seek to support the competitiveness of
Peru's national resource industry.
"We must be very careful with tax policy as the key for
investors is confidence," Martinez told reporters in Lima. "If we
don't send clear signals to investors that this growth model will
continue, we'll be shooting ourselves in the foot." The article
also noted that representatives from the industry group will meet
with Humala's advisers to reach a "technical" solution that will
allow the Peruvian resource industry to compete with other top
nations such as; Chile and Canada.
In addition to positive commentary from senior parliamentarians,
Congress in Peru has also recently enacted a law which will create
an additional retirement pension fund for miners. The bill will be
funded by a 0.5% levy on workers payroll and another 0.5% on
corporate profits thereby recognizing the demands of local miners
who had threatened to strike if the bill was not passed.
Positive post-election reports have also stemmed from major
producers with operations in Peru. Xstrata Mining (XTA.L) and
Buenaventura (BVN.N) have both publicly reaffirmed their intent to
proceed with a combined $8.7 Billion in capital investments
dedicated to the advancement of their gold, copper and industrial
mineral exploration and production projects in Southwestern Peru.
Xstrata latest major Peruvian development project, the Las Bambas
Mine, is located less than 25 km from Aguila's flagship gold
property; Angostura. Such encouraging industry reports have further
strengthened the general confidence in the direction of the
evolving poli-economic climate in Peru.
CEO and President, John Huguet observes that; "the abundance of
natural riches in Peru is particularly evident in the mining
sector, where the strength of commodity prices and precious metals
prices continue to contribute significantly to robust GDP growth in
the country. Incoming President Humala has stated that working with
corporate interests in the mining sector to negotiate a means to
distribute windfall profits as mechanism to relieve, and address,
the extreme poverty is top objective of his future administration.
To date the major producers in the mining sector in the region have
all voluntarily contributed to this approach."
"With over 40 billion dollars of new capital expenditures slated
for development of key mineral resource projects in Peru, we
anticipate the national mining industry to continue to be governed
by the democratic rule of law. In doing so, we anticipate effective
stabilization agreements will be honored and a properly negotiated
settlement will be achieved whereby the needs of the Peruvian
people and the needs of the investment community will both be
addressed and come away from the negotiating process with a
mutually beneficial solution."
President John Huguet is an established senior executive in the
resource industry who has worked, and invested, in Peru through
seven Presidential terms and has served as the President of the
Vancouver chapter of the Peruvian Canadian Business Council since
1994.
About Aguila
Aguila American Gold Ltd. is an emerging gold exploration
company, with an experienced geological and executive management
team focused on advancing and developing their flagship
prospecptive gold project; Angostura. This highly prospective gold
property is located in the Department of Apurimac, in southwestern
Peru.
Angostura rests on a prolific mineral trend, approximately 25km
from the Las Bambas Mine, a 4.5 billion mineral production project
spearhead by Xstrata Mining. The Angostura Gold Project is
comprised of eight mineral exploration concessions where recent
exploration programs have identified two key mineralized zones
along a 4.8km surface strike and where surface sampling and
trenching has exposed mineralized areas up to 75m wide (open in all
directions).
Contacts: Aguila American Gold Ltd. (604) 685-9316 (604)
683-1585 (FAX) www.aguilaamerican.ca Prime Communications Inc.
John-David A. Belfontaine Founder and President (604) 909-2303 or
Toll free: (866) 296-2195 jdb@primecom.ca
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