Author: Josue Gomez

Allan Barry Laboucan, president and chief executive officer of Alset Minerals, said: “We have completed first-pass leach testing of composite sediment samples from our salars that show, with dilute acid, we can recover between 79 per cent and 97 per cent of the lithium in a matter of hours. Cinvestav has completed the advanced leaching analysis that needs to be carried out prior to pilot plant testing. This work will provide key data for various water temperatures, leaching times and acid amounts, which are important in understanding the low-cost potential of lithium recovery from our salars. With the help of Dr. Perez Garibay and his team at the Cinvestav lab in Saltillo, we can complete the work required to establish these low costs. This work will be potentially transformative for the company, and we are excited to move ahead. Once we have signed this collaborative agreement, we will report on the findings from the advanced leaching analysis completed by Cinvestav.”

Carlos Silva, COO of Santacruz, stated “The expansion of the Veta Grande Project diamond drill program to include the Armados vein will allow us to better delineate a mine plan on this vein in anticipation of the inminent expansion of the Veta Grande mill capacity.” Mr. Silva continued “The mill expansion activities are in line with our budget and commissioning of the new ball mill is scheduled to start by the end of the first quarter aiming to achieve designed efficiencies during the month of April.”

Jim Culver, CEO of VVC said, “We are excited by the results of the sampling campaign and the new interpretation of the geology and potential of the La Tuna project. The limited sampling on the property and in the old artisanal mines confirmed high grade gold mineralization is present and gave us a new vision for the property. I encourage readers of this news release, particularly those who have a technical interest, to go to the VVC website and view our presentation that shows the geology and potential of the property”.

Kootenay Silver Inc. is pleased to report that Aztec Minerals Corp. today announced results of 3 additional holes from its phase I drill program totaling 3,000 meters, currently underway at Kootenay’s Cervantes Project, located in Sonora State, Mexico.

Robert Willis, San Marco’s CEO stated; “The IP survey has generated a classic “textbook” porphyry-style geophysical target. These geophysical results add additional support to our theory of significant vertical extent below the large surface footprint. Drill hole collars are expected to be located at or near copper/gold/moly mineralization, which has been locally, identified right at surface. Each new layer of data that has been generated at 1068 has simply strengthened the target potential.”

Joey Wilkins, CEO of Aztec, commented: “The first eight drill holes have tested about half of the 750 m long, +0.5 gpt gold soil anomaly at California. Mineralization intersected to date starts at surface in most holes and averages more than 100 m thick.”