Month: February 2012

Wealth Minerals Options Mexican Silver Project

Wealth Minerals Ltd. is pleased to report, the acquisition of an option to acquire the Valsequillo Silver project, southern Chihuahua state, Mexico. The property is located approximately 40 kilometres southeast of the city of Hidalgo Del Parral within the pre-eminent Altiplano Polymetallic Belt of north-central Mexico. Initial reconnaissance work has identified two significant northwest trending structural corridors characterized by extensive artisanal workings, en echelon and segmented precious and base metal bearing vuggy quartz-sulphide (pyrite, galena, sphalerite and chalcopyrite) veins and a broad colour anomaly (gossan). The mineral-alteration system(s) identified to date remain open for expansion in all directions.

Bell Copper Announces $2,000,000 Brokered Private Placement Financing

Bell Copper Corporation is pleased to announce a brokered private placement by D&D Securities Inc. to raise up to $2,000,000 on a best efforts basis. Pursuant to the Financing, the Company will offer for sale through the Agent up to 25 million units at a price of $0.08 per Unit, with each Unit consisting of one common share and one-half of one common share purchase warrant. Each Warrant will entitle the holder thereof to acquire one common share of the Company at a price of $0.12 for a period of 18 months from the closing date of the Financing.

Vista Gold Corp. announces transaction with invecture group to advance the concordia gold project in Mexico

ista Gold Corp. is pleased to announce that it has entered into an Earn-in Right Agreement with Mexico-based Invecture Group, S.A. de C.V. with respect to Vista’s Concordia gold project in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Invecture is the owner of Frontera Copper Corporation, which owns and operates the Piedras Verdes Copper Mine in the Mexican State of Sonora. A conference call with management to discuss this transaction is scheduled for Monday, February 13, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. MST.

Corex Announces Non-Brokered Private Placement for up to 8,333,333 Units

Corex Gold Corp. is pleased to announce a non-brokered private placement of up to 8,333,333 units at a price of $0.18 per unit, for aggregate gross proceeds of up to CDN $1,500,000. Each Unit will consist of one common share and one non-transferable share purchase warrant. Each warrant will be exercisable by the holder to acquire one additional common share at a price of $0.30 for 24 months from Closing. The Warrants are subject to an accelerated expiry which comes into effect once the shares trade above a weighted average price of $0.50 for any twenty consecutive trading-day period, subsequent to four months from Closing. In the event of an accelerated expiry, the expiry date will be the earlier of the regular 24 month expiry date and 30 days from the date the Company advises the placees of the accelerated expiry.

Argonaut Exploration Responds to Dissident Director Materials

On January 26, 2012, three dissident directors of Argonaut Exploration Inc. (“the Company” or “Argonaut”; ‘AGA’ TSX-Venture exchange) delivered to shareholders an information circular, accompanied by a cover letter dated January 24, 2012 (“the Dissident Materials”), representing the views of the Dissident Directors, being Ray Cook, Brad Bakuska and Tell Stephen.

Capstone Updates Mineral Resource Estimate for Footwall Zone at Cozamin Mine

Capstone Mining Corp. today announced the result of an updated National Instrument 43-101 compliant mineral resource estimate for the Mala Noche Footwall Zone at its Cozamin Mine in Zacatecas, Mexico. Follow-up drilling in the MNFWZ in the second half of 2011 has added an additional 28 million pounds of copper resource in the measured and indicated categories. At a US$35 NSR copper cut-off grade, total measured and indicated mineral resources at the Cozamin Mine at the end of 2011 was 419 million pounds of copper. A tabulation of total mineral resource by classification is appended at the end of this news release.

Major Drilling Group International Inc. is one of the world’s largest drilling services companies primarily serving the mining industry. Established in 1980, Major Drilling has over 1,000 years of combined experience and expertise within its management team alone.

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Maza Drilling is a Mexican company established in 2007 in Mazatlán, Sinaloa. Our Canadian founder, Mr. Guy de Launiere, has over 20 years of international experience managing diverse drilling operations. Maza Drilling strives to compete at the highest levels in terms of recovery, effectiveness, efficiency, and affordability at every project while keeping at the forefront of technology to meet our customer’s needs in this demanding market.