Year: 2017

Chesapeake Commences Drilling on Yarely Project

Chesapeake Gold Corp has commenced a 5,000 metre diamond drill program at its wholly owned Yarely project located near the proposed El Paso (Metates) plant site in Sinaloa State, Mexico. Chesapeake controls a 68,000 contiguous hectare land position favorably situated near a paved highway, civil infrastructure and labour.

Capstone Mining 2017 Third Quarter Production Results

“Cozamin once again outperformed in the third quarter, partially offsetting lower production at Pinto Valley and Minto,” said Darren Pylot, President and CEO of Capstone. “As we enter the fourth quarter, all operations are on track and we expect to achieve the low end of our guided production range for the year.”

Fortuna provides Brownfields and Greenfields exploration update

David F. Volkert, Vice President of Exploration, commented: “Our exploration priority at Fortuna is adding to the longevity of our operations. Concurrently, we are populating the base of our exploration pyramid with new opportunities from our internal Brownfields and Greenfields reconnaissance programs and selected equity investments and option agreements as completed with Prospero Silver in Mexico and Medgold Resources in Serbia.”

Apoyo de búsqueda y rescate en México con brigadas de Endeavour Silver

La coordinación en el sitio se dio a través del sistema de comando unificado teniendo por comandante del incidente al Sr. Guido Sanchez Coello director ejecutivo del ERUM en México, teniendo contacto directo con la Coordinación Nacional de Protección Civil, Secretaria de la Defensa Nacional y la Secretaria de Marina Armada de México.

Sierra Metals Announces “At-The-Market” Issuance Program and Filing of Prospectus Supplement

Sierra Metals Inc. is pleased to announce that it has entered into an Open Market Sale Agreement with Jefferies LLC, H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC, Scotia Capital (USA) Inc. and Noble Capital Markets, Inc., pursuant to which the Company may, at its discretion and from time to time during the term of the Sales Agreement, sell, through the Agents, acting as agent and/or principal, such number of common shares of the Company as would result in aggregate gross proceeds to the Company of up to US$55 million. Sales of Common Shares through the Agents, acting as agent, will be made through “at the market” issuances on the NYSE American at the market price prevailing at the time of each sale, and, as a result, sale prices may vary. No Common Shares will be offered or sold in Canada.

Telson Resources Receives Tahuehueto Project Construction Permit

“With the granting of this MIA, Telson is now fully permitted to build its planned Tahuehueto Mine and we intend to initiate construction of the mine immediately upon securing the necessary funding. Our funding efforts are at an advanced stage having received three separate offers from off-take concentrate purchasers and negotiations are in progress to finalize the project’s capital expenditure funding. While there can be no assurance that we will obtain the required funding, we are confident that we will be able to come to a satisfactory arrangement with an off-take purchaser” states Telson’s CEO, Antonio Berlanga.

Global exploration budgets increase for first time in 5 years, led by gold

According to the 28th edition of the Corporate Exploration Strategies (CES) by S&P Global Market Intelligence, this reversal of the near five-year downturn is being led by a robust gold sector, whose activity began picking up in mid-2016. Gold budgets for 2017 exploration are up 22% year over year. Zinc-focused producers and junior explorers have also boosted the zinc budget by 29% year over year to US$489 million, based on improved zinc prices since early 2016, according to the CES report.

Endeavour Silver Produces 1,262,064 oz Silver and 13,648 oz Gold (2.2 Million oz Silver Equivalents) in the Third Quarter, 2017

Endeavour CEO Bradford Cooke commented, “Third quarter production showed continued improvement over the second quarter production on a consolidated basis. Both Bolanitos and El Cubo are on track to meet or beat their operating plans for the year. Guanaceví’s performance is now rebounding with grades up in Q3 and our forecasted throughput up for Q4, targeting 1000 tpd by year-end.

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