Baja Mining Corp. to provide an update on the Cinto Colorado Tailings Project and to report on management's latest visit to the Boleo Project on December 17, 2015. The company reported that initial metallurgical test work on samples taken from the Cinto Colorado leach/precipitation/flotation (LPF) tailings located in Santa Rosalia, adjacent to the Boleo mine site, have yielded positive results.

The company engaged Met-Solve Laboratories ("Met-Solve") in Langley, BC to undertake and coordinate the testing, which was supervised by Dr. Dreisinger, with Dr. Thomas Glück, the former Director of Process Technology at Baja and a co-author of the 2010 Boleo Technical Report, as project manager. Test work confirmed that the Cinto tailings are suitable for leaching. Recoveries from bench scale testing approached 70% with modest acid consumption.

Ion exchange (IX) testing using a copper selective, chelating resin, produced concentrated copper solutions potentially suitable for direct addition to the Boleo plant copper recovery process or, alternatively, for direct electrolysis to copper metal. One option for direct electrolysis would be to use Electrometal's EMEW technology. Baja has recently presented its concepts for the development of the Cinto tailings to MMB and KORES, including simply trucking the tailings on an existing haul road to be fed into the Boleo plant, or producing and supplying an enriched copper pregnant liquor solution (PLS), pumped a distance of approximately 2 km from the Cinto plant to the Boleo plant.

The company has agreed with KORES that it will advance these concepts for further review with KORES and MMB. A key aspect of its discussions with KORES will be to determine what level of cooperation in terms of access to infrastructure and process consumables that Baja and Cinto may be able to secure from MMB.