Author: Josue Gomez

Excalibur Resources Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has signed an Addendum to the September 22, 2010 Joint Venture Agreement whereby its 49% owned subsidiary Minera Catanava de C.V. will acquire 100% of the Pinos District mining claims held by its 51% partner Minera Apolo de C.V. in exchange for the forgiveness of the $2 million loan that Excalibur has provided to finance the construction and operations of the 150 tpd plant at Catanava. Apolo will receive 2 million shares of Excalibur upon the completion of the transfer of the mining claims, when signed, notarized and registered in the Public Mines Registry in Mexico City. Excalibur will also begin to pay rent of US$8,000 per month on the old tailings pond area for which the surface land title is held by Apolo, after Catanava begins to generate US$100,000 dollars per month in positive cash flow. Finally, Catanava agrees to increase the production output in the existing plant to a target of 600 tpd over the next three years.

Santacruz Silver Mining Ltd. reports additional results from its ongoing 2013 diamond drill program at its San Felipe project in Sonora State, Mexico. Drilling continues to focus on the La Ventana, Las Lamas and Transversales veins.

Avino Silver & Gold Mines Ltd. today announced that it has now drifted along the San Gonzalo vein for over 200 metres to the northwest and 240 metres southeast of the main crosscut across from the ramp on level 5. The San Gonzalo Mine is located on the Avino property 80 km north east of Durango, Mexico.

Levon Resources Ltd. is pleased to report resumption of Phase 4 drilling at the Company’s wholly owned Cordero project. An initial 14,000 metres of core drilling is planned to test the recently acquired Aida claim, located in a central part of the Cordero resource. Levon’s purchase of the Aida claim consolidates the Company’s ownership of 100% of the mineral rights in the district. The current Indicated mineral resource at Cordero includes 364 million (M) oz of Ag, 945,000 oz of Au, 6.1 billion (B) lbs of Zn, and 3.3B lbs of Pb [contained metal] (US $6 NSR cutoff grade was used, calculated at $25/oz Ag, $1.00/lb Zn and Pb. Gold was included in the tabulations based on areas within the resource which have higher gold grades). The indicated plus inferred resources are described in Levon’s updated resource report (as amended May 10, 2013) for the Cordero Project completed by Independent Mining Consultants in collaboration with M3 Engineering and Technology of Tucson, AZ.