Category: Exploration and Development

J.D. Poliquin, chairman of Almaden stated, “Today’s results once again show the presence of the high grade veins on the Tuligtic project. While we are now focussed on developing the Ixtaca deposit into a significant precious metals producer in Mexico, and are currently busy with engineering work and studies towards producing a PFS, this exploration drilling demonstrates additional resource potential both laterally and, because we are at the top of a fully preserved epithermal system, future exploration drilling will also test for feeder veins beneath the Ixtaca sheeted vein zone.”

Canasil Resources Inc. announces that the Company has completed the first hole, ES-16-12, of the 2016-17 core drilling program at the La Esperanza silver-lead-zinc project in Durango and Zacatecas States, Mexico. The hole was drilled to a downhole depth of 394.5 metres. This hole intersected an extended interval from 345 metres to 391 metres down hole, carrying banded quartz veins, veinlets and breccias hosted within fractured and brecciated volcanic rocks. Base metal sulphides including sphalerite, galena, and chalcopyrite have been noted. The core is being logged and prepared for assaying to determine base metal and possible silver content.

Mexus Gold US announced that after careful deliberation the Company has determined to acquire the concessions comprising the San Felix Project. Mexus has entered into land surface use agreements and concession purchase agreements for various land parcels which expired under the prior owner’s failure to pay. The agreements require a cash payment with term payments to the respective owners. The Company also announces the execution of an agreement with MarMar Holdings Inc. whereby each company owns a 50% share of the San Felix Project and designates MarMar Holdings Inc. as the operator of the daily production activities…

Tim Barry President & CEO of Silver Bull states, “The start of 2017 is shaping up to be an exciting one for Silver Bull. The exploration drill program targeting the sulphide mineralization provides a new aspect to the Sierra Mojada story which I believe will be transformative to the story if we are able to intercept any significant zones of sulphide. In addition with the strong recent performance and positive outlook for zinc, we now feel the time is right to push the zinc part of the Silver Bull story. Very few companies have zinc assets of the size and grade we have at Sierra Mojada, especially with the sort of infrastructure we have close by immediately adjacent to the project, and in a viable mining country like Mexico. When I consider the silver and zinc resource already defined at Sierra Mojada, coupled with the exploration upside, Silver Bull provides a unique opportunity for investors in both base and precious metals”.

Charles Funk, Evrim’s Vice President of New Opportunities and Exploration commented, “This is an exciting discovery for Evrim and its partner, First Majestic. The intercepts show significant widths within 240 metres from surface into the principal vein, located in a larger vein field. The mineralization is gold rich (relative to silver) and the high gold grades are evenly distributed across the drill intercepts. This discovery is very close to First Majestic’s Santa Elena mine and provides great potential for Evrim to realize Ermitaño’s value in the near term.”

Lithium Australia Managing Director, Mr Adrian Griffin commented: “Lithium Australia and our partner, Alix Resources, are pleased to have progressed the project to the key metallurgical testing stage. The region offers great lithium potential, as has been demonstrated nearby, by Bacanora Minerals. Working closely with Kappes Cassiday and Associates, we will use our past experience for the benefit of the project, to develop the best possible commercial outcome. The application of the best available processing technology is the key to success and we plan to use that key, not only on the Electra Project, but also on other lithium clay opportunities”.

La segunda mayor productora de oro de Canadá recibirá 71 millones de dólares en acciones comunes de Leagold

GOLDCORP INC. today announced that the Company has entered into a share purchase agreement with Leagold Mining Corporation, pursuant to which it has agreed to sell its Los Filos Mine in Mexico to Leagold. Under the terms of the Agreement, Goldcorp will receive estimated consideration of $438 million, consisting of $279 million in cash, $71 million in Leagold common shares, and retain certain tax receivables of approximately $88 million. The common shares issued to Goldcorp as consideration are expected to represent approximately 30% of the issued and outstanding shares of Leagold following the closing of the Transaction. By closing of the Transaction, Goldcorp expects to recognize a reversal of a 2015 impairment in mining interests at Los Filos of approximately $30 to $60 million on a pre-tax basis.

Leagold Mining Corporation is pleased to announce that it has entered into a binding sale and purchase agreement with Goldcorp Inc. dated January 11, 2017 to acquire the Los Filos Gold Mine in Guerrero State, Mexico for US$350 million through the purchase of Goldcorp’s Desarrollos Mineros San Luis S.A. de C.V. subsidiary. The purchase price is made up of US$279 million in cash and US$71 million in common shares of Leagold. Based on Leagold’s transaction financing plan, Goldcorp is expected to become an approximate 30% shareholder of Leagold at completion of the Acquisition. Goldcorp will have the right to nominate a director to Leagold’s Board at completion of the Acquisition.

James McDonald, President & CEO of Kootenay Silver stated, “We are very pleased with the latest exploration data we have gained from the San Gregorio underground adit. Results from the current program, combined with our ongoing re logging efforts and previous data we have obtained through prior exploration programs, support our effort to design a drill program to test the extensions of the current resource, which remains open along strike and to depth. Upon completion of the prerequisite work, we look forward to initiating a drill program aimed at expanding our established silver resource, starting sometime in the first quarter of 2017.”