Author: Josue Gomez

First Majestic Announces High-Grade Drill Results from its 2019 Exploration Program at the Ermitaño project within the Santa Elena Land Package

“Today’s exploration results bring us another step closer to ensuring a longer mine life for Santa Elena,” stated Keith Neumeyer, President and CEO of First Majestic. “Not only has this program increased our confidence in the resource but we also encountered significant intercepts of high-grade gold which we expect will improve the overall grade of the resource. Next month we plan to announce an updated resource estimate for the Ermitaño project which will include these high-grade drill results.”

Endeavour Silver Reports Financial Results for the Fourth Quarter and 2019 Full Year

Bradford Cooke, Endeavour CEO, commented, “The Company’s financial performance last year was negatively impacted by significant operating issues and higher costs at each of our mines. We made sweeping changes to the mining operations in Q2 and Q3 and as a result, we are finally seeing production rising and costs falling, led by Guanacevi. Endeavour expects higher production and lower costs at each of its three mines in 2020.”

Excellon Resources to Acquire Otis Gold Creating a New Multi-asset Precious Metals Company

Excellon President & CEO Brendan Cahill stated: “The acquisition of Otis Gold represents an exceptional opportunity to further Excellon’s vision of creating wealth. We believe that we are at the dawn of a new bull market in precious metals. The Kilgore deposit multiplies our resource base and increases our precious metal exposure from approximately fifty percent to over ninety percent.”

Juanicipio Project Update

Octavio Alvídrez, Chief Executive Officer of Fresnillo plc, said: “Juanicipio is an outstanding project which will generate strong returns for our shareholders, and significant benefits to the region. We continue to de-risk and refine the best construction plan that will drive the most value and ensure we capitalise on the opportunity that Juanicipio presents. I am pleased to confirm we are accelerating development of the underground mine and as a result, I expect the mine will be producing silver and gold ahead of schedule in 2020.”

Mako Closes US$15,150,000 Term Loan

The Company proposes to use the funds from the Loan for construction, development and exploration activities in Nicaragua, for general corporate purposes and for fees and expenses incurred in connection with the Loan.

Aztec Minerals Arranges CAD$430,000 Private Placement Financing

The Company intends to use the net proceeds of the Private Placement to conduct exploration work on its Tombstone CRD silver-gold-lead-zinc-copper project in Arizona, complete the joint venture agreement for the Cervantes Porphyry gold-copper project in Mexico, and for general working capital purposes.

Discovery Metals Receives TSX Venture 50 Award

Taj Singh, President and CEO, states: “2019 was a transformative year for Discovery owing to the acquisition of the Cordero project mid-year. We are very pleased that the work we have done post-acquisition in conjunction with a strengthening silver price has translated to strong market performance culminating in being named to the Venture 50.”

Teck Reports Unaudited Annual and Fourth Quarter Results for 2019

“Ongoing global economic uncertainty negatively impacted commodity prices in the fourth quarter and that has continued into 2020, exacerbated by the effect on markets from the Coronavirus and the impact of severe weather conditions in British Columbia, followed by blockades on rail lines,” said Don Lindsay, President and CEO.

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