Year: 2012

Evrim Resources Corp. is pleased to announce that a second phase drilling and exploration program has been approved by partner Inmet Mining Corporation at the Company’s Suaqui Verde copper-molybdenum porphyry project in Sonora, Mexico. Evrim and Inmet have also received remaining assay results from the first phase drilling program. The approved program is designed to test a combination of geophysical targets and exposed surface targets within the Adriana system and the surrounding basin and will include preliminary geological and geophysical work on the Cardelena project, recently optioned by Inmet.

Azure Minerals Limited, the Mexican-focused minerals exploration company, is pleased to provide shareholders with an update of recent developments on two of the Company’s 100%-owned properties, La Tortuga and El Tecolote. The Company has in place farm-in agreements with the Japanese Government organisation, JOGMEC, over these projects through two separate joint ventures. Azure is free-carried for the first US$16 million of exploration expenditure.

Highvista Gold Inc. is pleased to report on the results of its Phase Two drill program at the Republicana Target at its 100% owned Canasta Dorada Gold Project, located within the Sonoran Gold Belt, in Sonora State, Mexico.

Scorpio Mining Corporation is pleased to report additional results from drilling along a new trend at its 100% owned El Cajón Deposit near Cosalá, Sinaloa, Mexico. El Cajón is located approximately 13.5 kilometers by road from the 1,500 tonnes per day Nuestra Senora processing plant. The deposit has been the subject of ongoing exploration since 2005 and plans are underway to shorten the road distance from Scorpio’s Nuestra Senora processing plant by approximately 5 kilometers with a new access route.

Kootenay Silver Inc. is pleased to announce that an updated resource estimate performed by SRK Consulting Inc. of Lakewood, Colorado on its Promontorio Silver Project has resulted in a significant increase in the size of Promontorio’s Measured and Indicated mineral resources.