Taseko Mines Ltd. (TGB) to Receive $180 Million to Form Joint Venture for 25% of Gibraltar Mine
Taseko Mines Ltd. is a British Columbia-based mining company. The company's main assets are its Gibraltar copper-molybdenum mine, the Prosperity gold-copper project, the Harmony gold project and the early stage Aley niobium project. The company announced yesterday that it had signed a letter of intent with Sojitz Corporation to establish by early 2010 a joint venture over Taseko's Gibraltar copper/molybdenum mine. The terms of the deal require that Sojitz pay Taseko $180 million for a 25% interest in the mine. Taseko will continue to operate the mine. Sojitz is one of the large Japanese “trading houses”, a conglomerate with interests…