Category: Exploration and Development

First Batch of Assay Results Returned from La Virginia, Sonora, Mexico

Silver Viper’s President and CEO Steve Cope states, “The initiation of exploration activities at La Virginia after a 5-year pause is a significant milestone. We are very happy to see respectable grades returned from our first batches of samples from these drillholes and look forward to exploring new targets on the property.”

Golden Minerals Acquires Navegantes Silver Exploration Project

Mr. Warren Rehn, President and Chief Executive Officer of Golden Minerals, said; “Navegantes is an exciting prospect that hasn’t been systematically explored even though it is located in an area of several modern major discoveries. We were pleasantly surprised by the high-grade surface silver assays from heavily weathered and leached veins outcropping on the surface.

Telson Retains Glencore Technology for Albion Process Testing

States Antonio Berlanga, Telson CEO, “In our ongoing quest to maximize the returns from Campo Morado production we are excited to embark on Albion Process testing, an exciting new proven technology, to liberate gold and silver from mines with refractory gold and silver mineralization. If testing proves successful, we intend to fast-track funding the capital costs and installation of the Albion Process recovery equipment and technology during 2019. Thereafter, we believe Campo Morado will transition from predominantly a zinc producer, into a primary precious metal producer with strong base metal by-products which will certainly and positively impact the mines profitability.”

Leagold Increases Los Filos Open Pit Reserves by 122%

Leagold CEO Neil Woodyer commented: “As we are nearing the completion of our site-wide studies on options for Los Filos mine expansion, the integration and scheduling of the mining and processing of the four sources of ore is a complex task to optimize. We now have the good problem of re-scheduling to include this significant increase in gold reserves at the Los Filos open pit which will contribute to the production schedule until 2027. This is just one component of the expanded Los Filos mine, and it provides an indication of the expansion potential. We are also completing studies to update the mineral reserves for Los Filos underground and Bermejal open pit, establish an initial mineral reserve for Bermejal underground, and evaluate the increased benefits of constructing a carbon-in-leach plant to improve recovery rates.”

Prize Mining Reports First Results From Diamond Drilling and Continued Surface Sampling at the Manto Negro Copper Project

“The first holes at Manto Negro are giving us a good sense of the style and continuity of copper-silver mineralization”, stated Michael McPhie, President & CEO of Prize Mining. “Unlike porphyry copper deposits that have a strong vertical component, the stratabound nature of the deposits at Manto Negro gives them a tremendous lateral extent. The two areas being drilled are 18 kilometres apart and, at the Pilar Grande area, we can now trace the mineralization intermittently for about four kilometres. The grades and thicknesses we are seeing are consistent with those from the world class Kupferschiefer deposits in Europe.”

Radius Gold completes initial drilling at the Amalia and Coyote Gold Projects

Radius’s high-grade gold-silver Amalia Project is located in Chihuahua, Mexico. A nine hole, 1909m diamond drill program has been completed by Radius and funded by Pan American Silver under a joint venture agreement. Four different target zones (Campamento, Guadalupe, San Pedro and Dulces) were tested across a strike length of 1.8km following the trace of a large regional fault and associated surficial epithermal gold and silver mineralization. Mineralized intervals from each hole have been sampled and submitted for analysis. Results are pending and will be reported once complete.

Sonoro Announces Cerro Caliche Initial Drill Results

“The initial results from this first phase of drilling at Cerro Caliche support the veracity of drilling conducted by prior operators within the project area and most notably the work done by Corex,” said Kenneth MacLeod, President and CEO of Sonoro. “The drilling has further confirmed that mineralization in the Los Japoneses zone remains open in all directions, including at depth.”

Discovery Metals Completes 40 Line-Km Ground Based Magnetometer Survey at its Monclova Project

Taj Singh, P.Eng, President and CEO, stated, “Initial results from our Monclova mapping and sampling program were very encouraging and showed strong and consistent grades at several targets. The Real Viejo target specifically, hosts robust Ag-Pb-Zn grades and has been traced at surface as a 1,500m long by 2-10m thick mineralized and altered zone at the limestone-intrusive contact. The current geophysical survey is the first-ever modern approach to the evaluation of mineralization at the Project and will assist our drill planning process. We estimate commencement of our Phase 1 drilling program at Monclova in Q1 2019.”

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