Candente Copper Corp.: Canariaco Norte Pre-Feasibility Study Update

Candente Copper Corp. (TSX:DNT) updates on the Cañariaco Norte Copper Project Pre-Feasibility Study being prepared by AMEC Americas Limited.

The press release is quoted as saying:

The processing rate for the project has now been increased to 95,000 tonnes per day (“tpd”). Completion of a Pre-Feasibility Progress Report is scheduled for January 2011. The increase to 95,000 tpd is the second increase in processing rate achieved during the Pre-Feasibility level design of the Cañariaco Norte project. The processing rate has now increased by 26% from the 75,000 tpd rate proposed in the Preliminary Economic Assessment completed in 2008. This latest increase is a result of the significant increase in the mineral resource estimate completed by AMEC and reported by Candente on November 1, 2010.

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