Day: August 14, 2014

Almaden Minerals Ltd. is pleased to announce the results from Almaden’s ongoing 2014 drill program at the Company’s 100% owned Tuligtic project, Mexico. Recently the company released a positive PEA on the Ixtaca deposit. The mineral resources incorporated into the PEA mine plan were comprised of 29% Measured, 55% Indicated and 16% Inferred. The results reported today are from drilling carried out subsequent to the 2014 resource update and PEA and designed to test for additional mineralisation near the known deposit. Hole TU-14-438 hit an interval of high grade volcanic hosted gold mineralisation, including 15.00 meters of 4.43 g/t gold and 9.5 g/t silver, immediately adjacent to the known deposit and just outside of the PEA base case pit. Also reported today are significant results from hole TU-14-436 which intersected 27.00 meters of 0.45 g/t gold and 1.7 g/t silver, also outside of the PEA base case pit and southeast of the known deposit.

BIG NORTH GRAPHITE CORP. announces that the Company has released a report prepared by Tetra Tech WEI Inc titled “Grafito De Mexico Property Plant Assessment Report” and dated August 13, 2014, regarding the Company’s recently acquired El Tejon project located in Oaxaca, Mexico. Big North commissioned the Report as part of its due diligence process and a site visit was completed January 17-20, 2014, by Andre de Ruujiter, P. Eng, of Tetra Tech.

Avino Silver & Gold Mines Ltd. is pleased to announce the following expansion update from its Avino mine and operational update from its San Gonzalo Mine, both of which are located on Avino property, 80km northeast of Durango, Mexico.