Category: Exploration and Development

Diamond Drill Hole LM-17-CS-04 Cuts 15.98 g/t Au Eq. over 2.0 Metres

Brian Robertson, P. Eng., Chairman, President & CEO stated, “We are excited about these recent additional drill results at the Cinco Senores target. The results combined with previous drilling and sampling as well as the presence of extensive historical mine workings at the site, are indicative of a potential parallel zone at Cinco Senores.”

Allan Barry Laboucan, President and CEO of Alset said: “We are making good progress towards an assessment of the potential of our salars in Mexico. Historic data indicates the presence of lithium and potassium (amongst others) in soils. The current drilling program will generate our own data regarding the composition of both brines and soils that exist in the salar and the potential to recover lithium (and potentially by-products such as potassium). Whilst the demand for lithium is well documented, the Company is very aware of the importance of fertilizer to Mexico, a country with a large farming industry comprised of mostly small farmers who cannot afford imported fertilizers. We are therefore very excited about the potential that a by-product from our lithium focus may become a domestic source of fertilizer chemicals. We are continuing to drill and will submit more samples for testing and look forward to reporting these results as we receive them.”

States Kootenay President and CEO James McDonald “We are very pleased to initiate our next drill and resource expansion program at La Cigarra. We believe that results from past drilling in this priority region of the property, combined with supporting data from recent exploration, clearly underscores La Cigarra’s immense potential for further resource expansion in 2017 and we look forward to exploiting that opportunity.”

Levon is pleased to announce the startup of the 5,000 m core drilling campaign at the Cordero Ag, Zn, Pb, Au discovery, 35 km north of Hildalgo Del Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico, previously announced by the Company on April 4, 2017. 200 m core holes are planned to infill drill a central part of the 2014 resource to explore for improved near surface resource grades. The holes are being drilled in the Cordero Felsic Dome Complex (central) portion of the resource that spans four host igneous intrusive centers. If the drilling is successful, results can improve the projected economics of a starter open pit being evaluated by Independent Mining Consultants, Tucson, Arizona.

The project continues as expected with the usual growing pains for an expanding miner. Our joint venture and operating partner for the project, MarMar Holdings, has made consistent and steady progress at the mine site. To date, MarMar has constructed two holding ponds, a heap leach pad, performed an initial blast of a quartz vein, started a cyanide drip system on the heap leach pad, and started the Merrill Crowe recovery system. In addition, they also performed a test smelt and produced a small amount of dore using precipitate from the Merrill Crowe plant. These accomplishments are significant and show a determination to bring this project into full production.

Después de México, los más grandes productores son Perú, China, Chile y Rusia

Jim Williams, Chief Executive Officer of Arian commented, “I am pleased to report on these positive initial results, which confirm the presence of lithium. We now look ahead to advancing further exploration of these assets with deeper sampling techniques, geophysical methods and detailed mineralogical test work to assess the full extent of mineralisation.

Lithium Australia Managing Director, Adrian Griffin, said: “The ability of Sileach to cope with high levels of contamination in the spodumene concentrate, and still produce a high-purity Lithium Carbonate, is a great achievement. The ability to produce by-products that are not available with conventional processing of spodumene shows great potential.”

N. Eric Fier, CPG, P.Eng, President & CEO remarked, “The discovery of a sub-parallel unmined high grade vein adjacent to the Las Chispas historic underground workings is exciting, as we systematically drill several veins on the Property for mineralization expansion and future resource estimation. The Giovanni Vein appears to be continuous over a strike length of 400 to 500 metres, 150 to 200 metres in height, and has an average drilled true thickness of 2.0 metres. The new vein is easily accessible via the historic Las Chispas main haulage level (600 level). Closely spaced underground drilling is currently being set up to further test the Main and Giovanni veins. As we drill our known targets, we expect to continue to intercept other “Unnamed” high grade veins.”

Commenting on the revitalization plan, Chief Executive Officer, Greg McCunn, said, “The San Francisco Mine is a cornerstone asset for the Company located in an excellent mining jurisdiction. Our plan to revitalize the Mine by investing some of the cash flow from operations back into improvements to the operations and capital stripping will result in the Mine generating significant cash flow from operations over the next seven years. The cash flow generated will fully fund the revitalization and be instrumental in executing our growth strategy, including building our high-grade, high margin Ana Paula Project”.