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Serengeti brings Freeport onboard to hunt copper-gold near Mt. Milligan

Mineweb | May 4, 2011 | 6:20 am Base Metals Precious Metals Canada Copper Gold

Small B.C.-based junior Serengeti Resources (TSX-V: SIR) signed on a sizeable partner to explore territory thick in prospective copper-gold porphyries. Mining giant Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold (NYSE: FCX) inked an exploration agreement with Serengeti Resources that could see a 51-49-percent joint venture in Freeport’s favour formed on Serengeti’s Choo and Tchentlo properties, not far from Thompson Creek Metals’ Mt. Milligan copper-gold project.