Category: Exploration and Development

Los empresarios Fernando Alanís Ortega, director general de Peñoles; Jaime Lomelí Guillén y Christopher Ávila Mier, del Corporativo Bal, manifestaron su voluntad de trabajar junto al gobierno en pro de una minería sustentable y exitosa…

Discovery President and CEO, Taj Singh comments: “We are pleased with the results from our Phase I drill program at La Kika, the first-ever drilling at this project. Drilling focused on a very shallow zone around historic workings. We intersected a series of narrow, high-grade mantos, suggesting potential for an extensive mineralized system at depth. Results from a property-wide geochemical sampling program indicate that the prospective area at La Kika may be substantially larger than originally hypothesized. Next steps at La Kika include detailed mapping of the newly identified area, property-wide geophysics and possibly trenching work.”

Gillian Kearvell, VP Exploration, added: “While it is not uncommon in today’s market driven environment to seek short cuts to reduce the timeline to discovery, positive exploration results are nevertheless dependent on time, hard work and persistence to succeed. This important new interpretation at Tepal is a direct result of the focused effort and dedication shown by the field exploration team with the support of key stakeholders. We are delighted by the success of the 2017 field program and are very much looking forward to an exciting exploration year ahead.”

Project operator Minera Teck S.A. de C.V., a 100%-owned subsidiary of Canada’s largest diversified resource company, Teck Resources Limited, has advised Azure that all drill core from its 11-hole diamond drilling program completed in December 2017 has been logged and sampled. All samples have been submitted for assaying and receipt of assay results is in progress.

Gracias a las aportaciones del Fondo Minero para el municipio de Fresnillo, el alcalde José Haro de la Torre entregó obras en la Telesecundaria Sócrates de Valdecañas, con inversión de 618 mil 821 pesos, y un domo multifuncional en la primaria Emiliano Zapata, que costó 672 mil 427 pesos.

Tawn Albinson, the President of Prospero said: “Although the current drill program is limited to 3 holes, we’ve cut new vein systems within 25km of one of the world’s great silver-gold districts, the Pachuca-Real Del Monte system, which produced over 1.2-billion ounces of silver. We have at least 6-7km of linear, structurally-controlled alteration at surface on our concession so hitting multi-ounce and multi-gram silver and gold grades with the first 2 holes is exciting. The intercepts, which include 1.35m @ 227 Ag between 147.4m and 148.8m in hole 1, demonstrate that the negligible Ag and Au anomalies we noted in the surface alteration are related to a potentially significant epithermal vein system at depth. For example, the main vein structure in hole 2 is over 12m thick down hole; probably 8-10m true thickness, carries 0.39 ppm Au and 33 ppm Ag, and the third intercept which is 0.75 meters in width carries 6.4 ppm Au and 75 ppm Ag.”

Tim Barry, President, CEO and director of Silver Bull states, “We have identified two distinct zones of high grade sulphide mineralization that are 4 to 5 meters in width and trend in a roughly E-W direction. Our recent drilling has extended these two zones to over 150 meters each along strike. The zone to the north is dominated by high grade silver, up to 1,300g/t and high grade copper up to 3.3%, whilst the zone to the south has, in addition to high grade silver and copper, high grade zinc grading over 20%. This is interpreted to represent a zonation of metals in the deposit. In addition to the area recently drilled we have opened up an additional 350 meters of historical workings along the east-west trend of the sulphide mineralization which was announced in January 2018. ..”

“The results of our first drill hole targeting the high-grade breccia below the proposed pit validate our decision to commence the surface drill program ahead of drilling from the underground decline,” said Greg McCunn, Chief Executive Officer. “The results will allow us to more fully understand the geometry of the complex breccia and the nature and extent of the mineralization ahead of drilling from the underground decline which is expected in Q3 2018. An added objective of our program was to test a lower-grade hydrothermal breccia structure lying south of the proposed pit which have shown positive results from this initial hole. The lower-grade hydrothermal breccia lies outside of the proposed PFS pit outline.”

“We are very pleased to release the December 31, 2017 reserve report showing significant increases to reserve tonnes,” stated Mr. Barry Devlin, Vice President of Exploration for Gold Resource Corporation. “Much of the 2017 reserve ore tonnage and base metal increases came from deep in the Switchback vein system in the same areas as the deepest mine development levels to date. We estimate this area to have lower precious metal grades and higher base metal grades relative to higher elevations in this epithermal vein system…..”

Neil Woodyer, CEO, stated “We are extremely pleased with the 59% increase in P&P reserves at Los Filos, which reflects the success of our 2017 programs focused on extending mine life.Furthermore, this growth we are reporting today excludes any additional contribution from the Bermejal Underground expansion project, which has M&I resources of 2.1 Moz of gold (see Table 3) at a grade of 5.96 g/t, as reported as of December 31, 2017.The Bermejal Underground expansion is currently in the mine design phase in preparation for declaration of reserves in mid-2018. With the exploration success during 2017 and the reassessment of Los Filos’ long-term potential, studies are underway to evaluate building a carbon-in-leach processing plant, enabling higher recoveries for a wider range of ore types.”