Baja Mining Corp.

Baja Mining Corp. (the “Company”) is pleased to announce the successful completion of the Boleo Pilot Plant at SGS Lakefield Research Ltd (“Lakefield”) in Lakefield, Ontario, Canada. [ PDF ]

Baja Mining Corp. (the “Company”) is pleased to announce it has received all necessary permits to undertake an underground test mining program, in-fill drill program, and an exploration drilling program on the Boleo Project, Santa Rosalia, Baja California Sur, Mexico. [ PDF ]

Baja Mining Corp. (the “Company”) is pleased to announce the successful initiation of the Boleo Pilot Plant currently taking place at SGS Lakefield Research Ltd (“Lakefield”) in Lakefield, Ontario, Canada. The Company’s Vice President of Metallurgy, David Dreisinger, PhD., has been onsite to monitor the pilot plant testing and data analysis and reports the following. [ PDF ]

The El Boleo project, located at Santa Rosalia, Baja California Sur, Mexico, is a sediment hosted deposit of copper-cobalt-zinc, with possible indium, gallium and germanium credits, in a clayey mineral matrix. The copper-cobalt and zinc values in the ore can be leached using sulphuric acid solutions in a slurry leach process. While the dissolution of the valuable metals into the leach solution is relatively straightforward, the subsequent separation of metal containing solution from leached solids has historically been challenging. In order to meet this challenge, Baja commissioned a program of work at SGS Lakefield Research (Lakefield, Canada) to test the ability to successfully carry out solid-liquid separation and washing of the barren solids. This work was overseen by Bateman Engineering and involved Pocock Industrial (Salt Lake City) and Outokumpu (Toronto) in the testing. Pocock and Outokumpu are specialists in solid-liquid separation technology. [ PDF ]

Baja Mining Corp. (the “Company”) is pleased to welcome Mr. George Gauld, M.Eng, P.Eng, as Assistant Project Manager to the Company’s comprehensive Boleo Project Team. Mr. Gauld has over 20 years of experience in project management, design and construction of industrial, marine, and transportation facilities, construction management and project evaluation. Mr. Gauld will report directly to William Murray, Vice President – Operations and will work closely with Tawn Albinson, Assistant Project Manager and Country Manager – Mexico. [ PDF ]

Baja Mining Corp. (the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has retained the Los Angeles area firm of Michael Baybak and Company, Inc (“MBC”) to conduct institutionally-oriented investor relations programs on behalf of the Company. Headed by Mr. Michael Baybak, MBC is a long-term public relations specialist in the natural resource sector, with a focus on introducing Canadian resource companies of merit to broader institutional and other investor audiences. [ PDF ]

Baja Mining Corp. (the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it is proceeding with a Feasibility Study under the direction of Bateman Engineering Pty Ltd. (“Bateman”) of Australia. Three key components to this study are as follows. [ PDF ]

First Goldwater Resources Inc. (the “Company”) is pleased to announce that the Company has been given final approval for name change to “Baja Mining Corp.” by respective regulatory authorities. The Company will begin business and trading under its new name, “Baja Mining Corp.”, and new trading symbol, “BAJ”, at 6:30am PST, the open of market, Tuesday, July 20, 2004. [ PDF ]