Transaction framework

Acquisition preferred, joint venture considered

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Minera Pafex, S.A. de C.V. is offering the Charay Project to a select group of qualified counterparties.

Preferred structure: outright acquisition

Pafex’s preference is a sale of 100% of the Charay concessions. The asset supports a clean transfer: titles in good standing to 2041–2054 held by a single corporate owner, organized documentation, three decades of continuous surface and community relationships, and no legacy encumbrances from prior operators.

Considered: joint venture with the right operator

For an operator with district experience — ideally with in-region processing capacity — Pafex will consider a joint venture or earn-in structure that reflects the project’s de-risked status. This is not an early-stage earn-in priced on prospectivity: the ground is titled, the high-grade mineralization is drilled and check-assayed, the metallurgy is demonstrated at commercial scale, and the mine has produced — most recently under a documented 2014–15 production JV. Structures involving staged payments, work commitments, production milestones or royalties can all be discussed; what the ownership has consistently declined is exposure to open-ended cost recovery against a minority position.

The underwriting

What a counterparty is buying

  • 380 ha, three concessions, 100% held, expiries 2041–2054
  • 20.3 g/t Au / 123.7 g/t Ag over 1.29 m across 19 drill intercepts (2010 QP recompilation), ALS check assays at 91%
  • 90–94% cyanidation recoveries; commercial flotation history; no nugget effect
  • 3,668 oz Au / 24,550 oz Ag produced in 2015; startup in under four months
  • Power, rail, port, water, workforce and flat ground within an hour of a city of 235,000
  • Untested vein below 50 m, an unexplored parallel structure, and a 500 × 200 m breccia target
Restart scenarios and cost context are available to qualified parties under confidentiality agreement.

Process

Five steps, no theater

  1. Introductory call and mutual qualification.
  2. Confidentiality agreement — a standard NDA protecting both sides.
  3. Documentation package: 2005 drill logs and assay certificates, 2007–08 ALS re-assays, the 2010 independent geological assessment, metallurgical certificates, 2015 mill and shipment records, tenure and duty documentation.
  4. Site visit — Los Mochis is the staging point; the property is 45 minutes out.
  5. Proposal and negotiation.

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One call to qualify, one CA to sign — then the full record is yours to test.

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