Author: Josue Gomez

Sierra Metals Appoints Dionisio Romero Paoletti to the Board of Directors

Mr. Romero is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Credicorp and Banco de Credito – BCP, Peru’s largest bank, and has been the Chief Executive Officer of Credicorp (NYSE: BAP) since 2009. Mr. Romero has served as a board member of BCP since 2003 and was appointed Vice Chairman in 2008 and Chairman in 2009. Mr. Romero is also the Chairman of Banco de Crédito de Bolivia, El Pacifico Peruano Suiza Cia. de Seguros y Reaseguros S.A., El Pacifico Vida Cia. de Seguros y Reaseguros S.A., Alicorp S.A.A., Ransa Comercial S.A., Industrias del Espino S.A., Palmas del Espino S.A., Agricola del Chira S.A., among others. Furthermore, Mr. Romero is the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Inversiones Centenario and Director of Banco de Credito e Inversiones – BCI,Cementos Pacasmayo S.A.A. Mr. Romero is a graduate of Brown University with a degree in Economics and earned an MBA from Stanford University.

Golden Minerals Acquires Mining Rights For Cordero Property

Warren Rehn, President and Chief Executive Officer of Golden Minerals, commented, “We are excited at the potential of the high-grade Santa Rosa vein to provide near-term feed for our sulfide mill at Velardena and look forward to getting underway with drilling in early 2016 as soon as we receive the necessary permits.”

Golden Minerals Reports Third Quarter 2015 Results

* Revenue of (US)$1.8 million in the third quarter 2015 compared to $2.0 million in the second quarter 2015 and no revenue in the third quarter 2014.
* Net loss of $16.8 million in the third quarter 2015, of which $13.2 million reflects an impairment charge taken at the Velardena Properties relating to the November 2015 shutdown
* Generated approximately 128,000 and sold approximately 124,000 payable silver equivalent ounces in the third quarter 2015, compared to 125,000 and 133,000 AgEq oz in the second quarter 2015
* Leased currently-idled oxide plant to a third party, which is expected to provide between $4.0 and $5.0 million in net cash flow to the Company in 2016

Prospero Silver And Golden Minerals Reach Agreements To Mine The San Luis Cordero Project

Prospero Silver Corp. is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Golden Minerals Company of Golden, Colorado to confirm the viability of and, if determined to be favourable, to conduct mining operations on the Santa Rosa vein system, located on Prospero’s San Luis Cordero property in Durango State, Mexico. Golden Minerals owns the Velardeña Mine, presently on care and maintenance, located approximately 90 km from Cordero. This new arrangement contemplates Golden Minerals transporting ore from Cordero for processing at Golden Minerals’ existing 300 tpd sulphide plant. The principal operational agreements for this arrangement are between each of the party’s wholly-owned Mexican subsidiaries; Prospero’s subsidiary Minera Fumarola, SA de CV, and Golden Minerals’ subsidiary, Minera William SA de CV.

Starcore Produces 5,196 Equivalent Gold Ounces in Fiscal Q1

During Q1, a total of 78,016 tonnes were milled at an average grade of 2.22 g/t gold and 21 g/t silver resulting in the production of 5,195 gold equivalent ounces. Mill recoveries averaged 86.6% for gold and 53.8% for silver. Equivalent gold ounce calculation is based on the actual daily average gold:silver ratio of 74.92 during the quarter.

Paget Minerals Announces Share Consolidation and Financing

Paget Minerals Corp. announces that it will hold a special meeting of its shareholders on Tuesday January 19, 2016 to seek shareholder approval of a proposed consolidation of the Company’s fully paid and issued common shares on a ratio of one post-Consolidation common share for every fifteen pre-Consolidation common shares. The Company currently has 91,197,475 issued and outstanding common shares and there is expected to be 6,079,832 issued and outstanding common shares upon completion of the Consolidation.

Oceanus Resources and El Tigre Silver Announce Closing of Arrangement

Oceanus Resources Corporation and El Tigre Silver Corp. are pleased to announce the completion, following the receipt of the final order of the Court on November 10, 2015 , of the previously announced arrangement agreement that combines their respective companies by way of a statutory plan of arrangement pursuant to the Business Corporations Act ( British Columbia ), under which Oceanus acquired all of the outstanding common shares of El Tigre in exchange for common shares of Oceanus.

Azure Minerals – Diamond Drilling Confirms High Grade Silver Discovery

Results of the first two diamond core holes confirm wide zones of very high grade silver mineralisation, including:

18.0m @ 655g/t Ag from 2.0m in MDPD-001

? 18.7m @ 530g/t Ag from 28.8m in MDPD-002

Good correlation of silver grades and mineralised widths between the diamond core holes and the twinned RC drill holes

Mineral resource RC drilling program proceeding with 9 holes completed

Pan American Silver reports increased silver production and record gold production in the third quarter of 2015

Commenting on the Company’s 2015 third quarter results, Geoff Burns, Chief Executive Officer, said, “Continuing to respond to the difficult price environment, we recorded a very strong operational quarter, delivering an expected gain in silver production, a Company record for gold production and our second-lowest quarterly cash costs in over three years.” Burns continued, “Clearly benefiting from the determination of our operating teams to reduce costs and increase productivities, we generated a very respectable $32.9 million or $0.22 per share in operating cash flow, more than sufficient to fund our sustaining capital and cover our current quarter’s dividend”.

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