**Exhibit 99.8**

 

**CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTEREDPUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM**

 

To the Board of Directors Minera Andes Inc.

 

We consent to the inclusion in this annual report on Form 40-Fof:

 
| · | our auditors’ report  dated March 31, 2010 on the consolidated balance sheet of Minera Andes  Inc. (“the Company”) as at December 31, 2009, and the consolidated  statements of operations and other comprehensive income (loss) and cash flows  for the year ended December 31, 2009 |
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| · | and our Comments by  Auditors for US Readers on Canada-US Reporting Differences, dated  March 31, 2010                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
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| · | our auditors’ report on  reconciliation to United States GAAP dated March 31, 2010                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
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| · | our Report of Independent Registered Public  Accounting Firm dated March 31, 2010 on the Company’s internal control  over financial reporting as of December 31, 2009                                                                                                                                |

 

each of which is contained in or incorporated byreference in this annual report on Form 40-F of the Company for the fiscalyear ended December 31, 2009.

 
| **(Signed)****KPMG LLP**                            |   |
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| Chartered Accountants,  Licensed Public Accountants |   |
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| Toronto, Canada                                     |   |
| March 31,  2010                                |   |

 

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