Montero Mining and Exploration Ltd

Montero Mining & Exploration Ltd. operates as a mineral exploration and development company, which engages in the identification, acquisition, evaluation, and exploration of mineral properties. The company is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. The company went IPO on 2011-02-15. The firm's Avispa Copper-Molybdenum Project (Avispa Project) is located in the Atacama region of northern Chile, west of the town of Calama and 220 kilometers north-east of Antofagasta. The project is accessible via an asphalt road to the ports of Tocopilla and Antofagasta. The firm holds approximately 203 square kilometers (km2) of exploration mining concessions in an almost contiguous area south of the main highway between Calama and Tocopilla. The Avispa Project is situated within the north-south trending Paleocene Porphyry Copper Belt, also known as the Sierra Gorda-Spence-Cerro Colorado Porphyry Copper-Molybdenum Belt. The project is eight km south of the Chug-Chug porphyry system, which exhibits Quartz-Sercite-Tourmaline breccias and copper oxide mineralization on the surface.