Day: March 23, 2012

Sierra Madre Signs Drilling Contract for Penoles Project, Mexico

Management of Sierra Madre Developments Inc. is pleased to announce that the Company’s wholly owned Mexican subsidiary Minera Sierra Madre Exploraciones SA de CV, has signed a contract with Procesadora de Minerales de Durango SA de CV to complete a minimum of 2,500 meters of core drilling at the Company’s Penoles Project in the Durango Silver Belt, Mexico. The Project hosts a partially defined oxide gold prospect (El Capitan), two historic silver mines (Jesus Maria and San Rafael) and multiple early stage targets in a land package that covers more than half of the historic “Penoles Mining District”. Sierra Madre has an option to earn up to a 65% interest from Riverside Resources Inc. by incurring exploration expenditures and making cash and share payments to Riverside and the underlying property owners.

Aurion Closes $3 Million Financing

Aurion Resources Ltd. is pleased to report that it has completed its previously announced non-brokered private placement, for 8,571,426 million units at a price of CDN$0.35 per unit to raise aggregate gross proceeds of CDN$3 million. Each unit consists of one common share of Aurion and one full share purchase warrant of Aurion. Each whole share purchase warrant will entitle the holder thereof to acquire one additional common share of Aurion at an exercise price of CDN$0.45 cents per share for three years. Aurion can elect to accelerate the exercise of the warrants if Aurion’s volume-weighted average share price is at or above CDN$0.70 per share, based on the preceding 20 day closing share price. Finder fees of $99,612 in cash and 310,000 units (share plus warrant) and 424,718 compensation warrants are payable in connection with this financing. These warrants have the same terms as the above share purchase warrants.

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.