Category: Exploration and Development

“Premier Gold has a long-standing commitment to exploration that has resulted in several significant discoveries” commented Premier President & CEO Ewan Downie… “This commitment will continue during 2017 where we expect our largest annual exploration budget in company history with no less than US$18.5 million being spent on programs expected to have a direct, near-term impact on future production and on our peer-best development pipeline.”

“We are very pleased with the granting of this drill permit as it provides long-term certainty to our exploration efforts to aggressively expand the San Acacio Silver deposit”, stated Bruce Winfield, President and CEO of Defiance Silver Corp. “As one of the more prolific past producing silver mines in Mexico, we are hopeful that this work will allow us to increase our knowledge of the deposit as well as expand the resource.”

Minaurum Gold Inc. is pleased to announce drill results from Guerrero Ventures Inc.’s 41,000 hectare Biricú project in the Guerrero Gold Belt in southern Mexico. Biricú shows typical Guerrero Gold Belt host rocks cut by intrusive rocks identical to those seen in Goldcorp’s neighbouring Los Filos Mine and Torex Gold’s nearby Media Luna deposit. It borders Minaurum’s Vuelcos del Destino project to the east and south.

Gainey Capital Corp. is pleased to announce that the Company’s Phase 1 drill program is progressing and has been expanded at the El Colomo Gold-Silver project located in the Sierra Madre Occidental Trend in Western Mexico. The drilling is focused on the La Higuerita mineralized zone and the La Nueva Victoria Mineralized zone which are two of the Company’s 21 known mineralized zones within El Colomo.

United States Antimony Corporation reported that it has started production from its own Mexican antimony and gold and silver properties. January production could be approximately 50,000 pounds of antimony, and the production will be ramped up from internally generated cash flow.

Torex Gold Resources Inc. is pleased to announce that 279,937 ounces of gold were poured and 275,613 ounces of gold were sold in 2016, the first year of operations at its El Limon-Guajes Mine located in southwest Mexico.

Arian Silver Corporation is pleased to announce high-grade silver results from the recently completed surface sampling and geological mapping of its wholly-owned San Celso project located in central Zacatecas State, Mexico.

Vangold Resources Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has entered into an asset acquisition agreement made effective December 16, 2016, with Exploraciones Mineras Del Bajio SA de CV to acquire a 100% interest in the El Pinguico property. The Property consists of two mining concessions covering 71 hectares, located approximately 5km southeast of the City of Guanajuato in Guanajuato State, Mexico, and contains the historic El Pinguico-Carmen silver-gold mine. The acquisition is at arm’s length.

The production increase was driven by a full quarter of production from the Santa Gertrudis high grade zone recently discovered and improvements at Parral. The Santa Gertrudis high grade material represented approximately 50% of the quarterly production. The Company continues processing the high grade material during the construction of the vat leach plant.

Torex Gold Resources Inc. is pleased to announce the results of the first portion of its drilling program under the ‘El Limon Sill’. Highlighted intercepts from the El Limon Sill exploration program include 317.8 g/t Au over 3.4m in borehole SST-01, 230.7 g/t Au over 2.4m in borehole SST-19, 19.6 g/t Au over 9.6m in borehole ST-25, 22.6 g/t Au over 13.3m in borehole SST-27 and 83.3 g/t Au over 4.3m in borehole SST-34.