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Re: News Release - Wednesday,
November 21, 2007
Progress on the
Permitting Front and Community Relations
Appointment of
full time Chief of Community Relations and Firm of
Advisors
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Vancouver, B.C. and Lima, November 21,
2007. The President of Panoro
Minerals Ltd. (the Company) reports
from Peru where he has
just spent
ten days on related matters that progress
has been made on the
permitting processes for some of the
Company's projects in Peru.
Completion of the process for the
drilling permit for the El Rosal
Project in the North is pending final
issue of the permit document
after some requested additional
information has been supplied to the
Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM).
The application has otherwise been
accepted and approved.
The process of applying and receiving permits
for large exploration
drilling programs in Peru, and especially
in the Andean Region of
Apurimac has
become particularly complex since the enforcement of the
law that requires approval of the
activities of a company by a two
thirds majority vote in a full
assembly of the affected communities.
In all cases
this requires convincing the communities of the benefits
that they can derive from the
activities of the mining industry and the
negotiation of an agreement involving
the funding of various community
projects. Only after the conclusion of
such a legally binding agreement
can the permit application be submitted to the MEM. The slowdown of the
process and the associated delays in investments
in the mining
industry, particularly in exploration,
has caused concern in the office
of the President of Peru and has
precipitated the cooperation of the
industry in the region and in the country
to share experiences and
communication efforts towards the
affected population.
If a negotiation process does not succeed
in obtaining an agreement
with the community, the law foresees an
arbitration process called
"Servidumbre"
that will in the end provide the basis for the
utilization of the mineral rights that
have been granted by the state.
Nevertheless, the Company has made
solid progress in the case of its
Antilla
project after several consultative and informative community
meetings have been
held over the past five months. In a full community
meeting on November 17th that was attended
by the President of the
Company, and where he had the
opportunity together with Management of
the Company's subsidiary Cordillera de
las Minas to address the
assembly, the Company presented a
proposal of community projects that
it would be funding over the next two
years. After an at times stormy
discussion
the community voted 95% in favour of the Company to
carry
out exploration work on the project
pending the final conclusion of the
terms of the agreement and its
approval on December 1st.
Management of the Company is extremely
pleased with the outcome of this
last meeting.
Antilla is
one of the flagship projects of the Company. An aggressive
drill program is planned for the
project to confirm, define and expand
its geological potential.
The Company, who has
for some time been working with the community
relations consulting firm of Social
Capital Group has now retained this
firm as permanent advisors to its
community relations efforts. In this
capacity
Social Capital Group will provide regular input and reviews of
the Company's ongoing community
relations initiatives and also second
personnel to the Company on a temporary
basis.
The Company has also hired a full time
Chief of Community Relations for
all its community relations
initiatives. The appointee has had relevant
experience in the mining industry, has
already worked on the Cotabambas
project and is
totally fluent in the local Quechua language, a critical
aspect in the Apurimac region where most of the Company's
projects are
located.
Management is confident that it will
persevere and succeed in the
community relations and permitting processes
concerning its projects in
the region and that the projects will
enter a stable period of
advancement.
On behalf of the Board of
Panoro
Minerals Ltd.
Helmut H. Wober,
P.Eng.,
President and Director
ABOUT PANORO
Panoro
Minerals Ltd. is a Canadian mineral exploration company trading
on the TSX Venture Exchange (PML) and
on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
(PZM, WKN 914959) and on the Junior
Board of the Lima Exchange.
Panoro's
strategic focus is on exploring for large-potential gold and
copper/gold deposits in countries with
the corresponding geological
potential and where the right political
and economic conditions are
present.
For investor inquiries please call
604-684 4246, or send an e-mail to
info@panoro.com or visit the company's
website at www.panoro.com.
This release was
prepared by management of the Company who takes full
responsibility for its contents.
The TSX Venture Exchange has not
reviewed and does not accept responsibility
for the adequacy or
accuracy of this news release.
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Copyright (c) 2007 PANORO MINERALS
LTD. (PML) All rights reserved.
For more information visit our website
at http://www.panoro.com/ or
send mailto:info@panoro.com
Message sent on Wed Nov 21, 2007 at
7:40:32 AM Pacific Time
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