Peru Copper announces appointment of new officer
17 5월 2006 - 6:31AM
PR Newswire (US)
VANCOUVER, May 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Peru Copper Inc.
(TSX:PCR/AMEX:CUP/BVL:CUP) ("Peru Copper" or the "Company") is
pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Armando Arrieta who is
joining the Company as Director of Peruvian Legal Affairs. Mr.
Arrieta is a partner of Estudio Muniz, Ramirez, Perez-Taiman &
Luna Victoria, a leading law firm in Peru, where he is in charge of
the Mining and Environmental Law. He graduated from the Catholic
University of Lima, Peru in 1987 with a law degree. In 1988 he
earned a Master's Degree in International Law, also from Catholic
University. In 1996, he earned a Masters of Business Administration
from the Graduate School of Business Administration at Catholic
University. Mr. Arrieta has worked for Southern Peru Copper Corp.
and American Barrick Peru S.A., and also for the Ministry of the
Presidency, the Ministry of Industries and the Ministry of Justice
of Peru. He has also taught administrative law and international
law at the Catholic University of Peru. Peru Copper is involved in
the acquisition and exploration of potentially mineable deposits of
copper in Peru. On June 11, 2003, Peru Copper entered into the
Toromocho Option Agreement ("Toromocho Option") with Empresa Minera
del Centro del Peru S.A. ("Centromin"), a Peruvian state-owned
mining company, whereby Centromin granted the Company the option to
acquire its interest in the mining concessions and related assets
of the Toromocho Project. For further information please contact
Patrick De Witt, Director of Investor Relations at (604) 689-0234
or . Cautionary Note to U.S. Investors - The United States
Securities and Exchange Commission permits U.S. mining companies,
in their filings with the SEC, to disclose only those mineral
deposits that a company can economically and legally extract or
produce. We use certain terms in this press release, such as
"mineral deposit", that the SEC guidelines strictly prohibit U.S.
registered companies from including in their filings with the SEC.
U.S. Investors are urged to consider closely the disclosure in our
Form F-1 Registration Statement, File No. 333-121527, which may be
secured from us, or from the SEC's website at
http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml. Forward-Looking Statements:
Statements in this release that are forward-looking statements are
subject to various risks and uncertainties concerning the specific
factors identified in the Peru Copper Inc. periodic filings with
Canadian Securities Regulators. Such forward-looking information
represents management's best judgment based on information
currently available. No forward-looking statement can be guaranteed
and actual future results may vary materially. Peru Copper does not
assume the obligation to update any forward-looking statement. Safe
Harbor Statement under the United States Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Except for the statements of
historical fact contained herein, the information presented
constitutes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such
forward-looking statements, including but not limited to those with
respect to the price of copper, the timing of completion of
exploration activities and the determination and amount of
estimated mineral resources involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results,
performance or achievement of Peru Copper Inc. to be materially
different from any future results, performance or achievements
expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such
factors include, among others, risks related to the exploration and
potential development of the properties owned by the company, risks
related to international operations, the actual results of current
exploration activities, conclusions of economic evaluations,
changes in project parameters as plans continue to be refined,
future prices of copper, silver, molybdenum and gold, as well as
those factors discussed in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in
the Form F-1 as on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission
in Washington, D.C. Although Peru Copper Inc. has attempted to
identify important factors that could cause actual results to
differ materially, there may be other factors that cause results
not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no
assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate as actual
results and future events could differ materially from those
anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not
place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. DATASOURCE:
Peru Copper Inc. CONTACT: Patrick De Witt, Director of Investor
Relations at (604) 689-0234 or
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