Hong Kong-Based Trading Company Submits Letter of Intent to Buy El Capitan Precious-Metals-Rich Tailings
August 21 2014 - 2:28PM
Business Wire
Anticipated Sales of Tailings and Iron Ore
Herald the Company’s Transition from Exploration to Mining
Operations
El Capitan Precious Metals, Inc. (OTCBB: ECPN) announced today
that it has received a Letter of Intent from a Hong Kong-based
trading company to purchase tailings from the Company’s New Mexico
property. The two parties are currently in contract
negotiations.
ECPN Board Chairman John F. Stapleton reported that the LOI
specifies the trading company’s interest in an ongoing, multi-year
agreement with El Capitan.
Chuck Mottley, El Capitan President and CEO, stated that the
values of the precious-metals-rich tailings have been confirmed by
an independent, domestic metallurgical firm.
The contract in negotiation will be the first sales agreement
for precious metals entered into by El Capitan Precious Metals.
With another new contract in negotiation and a contract in place
for the sale of iron ore, El Capitan will have established itself
as a sustainable and profitable mining company. In addition, these
developments mark the Company’s transition from an exploration
company to an operating mining company.
About El Capitan Precious Metals,
Inc.: El Capitan Precious Metals, Inc. is a mining company
based in Scottsdale, Arizona that is principally engaged in the
exploration of precious metals and other minerals. The Company’s
primary asset is its wholly owned subsidiary El Capitan, Ltd., an
Arizona corporation, which holds the 100% equity interest in the El
Capitan property located near Capitan, New Mexico.
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Company’s geological technical reports will support the Company’s
prior claims regarding the metallurgical value and make-up of the
ore on the New Mexico property. Additional risks and uncertainties
affecting the Company include, but are not limited to, the
possibility that future exploration, development, testing or mining
results will not be consistent with past results and/or the
Company’s expectations; discrepancies between different types of
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the sale of its products; fluctuations in world market prices for
the Company’s products; the Company’s ability to obtain and
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financing for continued operations and/or the commencement of
mining activities on satisfactory terms; the Company’s ability to
enter into and meet all the conditions to consummate contracts to
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El Capitan Precious Metals, Inc.John Stapleton, 480-440-1449
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