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.”
Excellon Resources Inc. is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Cantor Fitzgerald Canada Corporation as sole bookrunner and together with PI Financial Corp. as co-lead underwriter, on its own behalf and on behalf of a syndicate of underwriters, pursuant to which the Underwriters have agreed to purchase, on a bought deal basis, 5,000,000 units of the Company at a price of $2.00 per Unit for gross proceeds to the Company of approximately $10 million. Each Unit will consist of one common share in the capital of the Company and one-half of one common share purchase warrant. Each Warrant shall entitle the holder to acquire an additional Common Share at a price of $2.80 at any time on or before December 31, 2018.
As we continue to advance the high grade, high margin Ana Paula project, the buy back of the 1% NSR is immediately accretive to the project and will deliver significant value to our shareholders over the long term, said Greg McCunn, Chief Executive Officer. We are advancing the Definitive Feasibility Study for the Project towards completion in Q2 2018 when we expect to make an investment decision to start construction. In parallel, we have initiated an exciting US$18 million exploration program at Ana Paula to investigate the extension of high-grade mineralization below the proposed open pit. Positive exploration results are expected to enhance already robust project economics, and it therefore made sense for us to exercise our buy-back right on the 1% NSR now. We would like to thank Goldcorp for their continued support of the Company through the exercise of the warrants.
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.
El senador Luis Sánchez Jiménez solicitó a la Secretaría del Trabajo y Previsión Social asumir la defensa de los derechos de los trabajadores mineros que demandan el pago del 5% de las acciones de la Compañía Minera de Cananea, comprometidos en el Convenio firmado desde el 20 de agosto de 1990.
Commenting on the drilling, Azure Managing Director, Mr Tony Rovira, said, This is a very exciting time for Azure. With drilling underway at Oposura, the Company now has six rigs turning on three different projects, delivering a continual news flow over the next few months. Programs range from first-pass drilling on the exciting Sara Alicia gold-cobalt prospect to the resource drill-out program at Oposura, as well as deep exploration drilling being undertaken at Alacrán by our partner Teck Resources.
GOLDCORP INC. today announced the completion of the previously announced sale of its 21% minority interest in the San Nicolas copper-zinc project, located in Zacatecas, Mexico to Teck Resources Limited for cash consideration of $50 million. The closing follows receipt of Mexican anti-trust approval and the satisfaction of closing conditions customary in a transaction of this nature.
El Gallo Mine, Mexico Overcoming Challenges
Production in Q3 was 7,213 gold equivalent ounces, compared to 11,849 gold equivalent ounces during the same period in 2016. Production in Q3 continued to be below our expectations as a result of a serious mechanical failure at the end of July that removed the crushing circuit from operation. As a result we were unable to crush and place fresh ore to leach on the leach pad for a period of time. We currently have almost twice our normal crushing capacity available for the remainder of the year. Production is improving on account of the increased throughput, and access to better grades of ore in the pit that was predicted in the second half of the year. Increased production in Q4 will partially compensate for the shortfall experienced to date.
Warren Bates, P. Geo., the Company’s Director of Project Investigation said: “We are very pleased with the results of the soil sampling program, which has significantly extended the potential strike length of known gold bearing veins and has defined a very prospective intersection of a new vein corridor target and the Serpiente Dorada vein. The combination of initial rock sampling and mapping, results of the recent soil sampling, and the three-dimensional view provided by the project’s 900 metre vertical cliff side topography and colonial era adits, allow us a very helpful perspective of the vertical size and potential of the high-grade gold veins in the project area. We await the conclusion of the mapping and sampling programs over the main Cascaron gold vein field that will allow us to finalize several drilling locations for our initial drill program.”
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