Month: October 2017

Frederick H. Earnest, Vista’s President and CEO, commented, “We are pleased to have Minera Alamos as a partner in the GdlR Project. We believe they have the requisite experience and skill to succeed in Mexico, and we are very supportive of their commitment to develop the GdlR Project. The Option Agreement preserves the upside of the GdlR Project for Vista shareholders by maintaining exposure to the underground potential as well as providing near-term non-dilutive strength for our balance sheet.”

Pete Dougherty, President & CEO stated: “The achievement of commercial production at San Agustin is a major milestone for the Company. I commend the team on its ability to deliver the project on schedule, under budget and with no major safety or environmental incidents. We view San Agustin as an important piece of the El Castillo Complex given the shared infrastructure and synergies with our neighbouring El Castillo mine. We believe the El Castillo Complex has the ability to ramp up to 150,000 gold equivalent ounces of production over the next couple of years, which will be the driving force of our approximate 60% production growth rate and lower operating costs by 2019.”

Mexico’s oil regulator will likely add another auction in 2018 featuring conventional onshore oil and gas blocks, the head of the National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH) said on Thursday, potentially teeing up a third tender in an election year.

Bacanora CEO Peter Secker said, “Government approval for the Environmental Impact Statement is the latest key requirement that is now in place at Sonora. One-by-one we are ticking off our checklist ahead of our goal of developing Sonora into a world class lithium operation. Our work to date has already established Sonora as a large and scalable project; while our pilot plant at Sonora has been producing battery grade lithium carbonate on a continuous basis for the past eighteen months. This has served to prove the detailed flow sheet and metallurgical process that will be deployed at the Project, and has also helped to secure Hanwa as both a strategic and off-take partner for up to 100% of production.”

N. Eric Fier, CPG, P.Eng, President and CEO, remarked, “Our continued step-out drilling along the strike of the Babicanora Vein has added another 100 metres to the previously announced high-grade footprint. Our first holes in the Granaditas and Amatista veins, which intersected high-grade mineralization, continue to show further untested potential in the district. Drilling in all nine veins drilled to date has intercepted areas of high-grade mineralization that warrant further drilling to better define continuity and volume. Our Phase II exploration program at Las Chispas continues with six drills actively working from the surface and underground. The objective of this program is to drill-test the Babicanora Vein over 1.5 kilometres of its known 3.2 kilometres strike length. With our continued success, we are aiming to further expand high-grade mineralization along multiple veins in both the Las Chispas and Babicanora areas in preparation for a maiden resource in early 2018.”