Category: Exploration and Development

Goldgroup Provides Cerro Prieto Update

Goldgroup Mining Inc. today announced production and sales results for January to September 2015 for the Cerro Prieto project located in the Cucurpe Mining District, Sonora, Mexico , which is comprised of the San Felix (205 ha), San Francisco (10 ha), Elba (5.82 ha), Huerta de Oro (20 ha), Reyna de Plata (9.79 ha), Cerro Prieto “North ” (2,508 ha) and Argonauta 6 (4,120 ha) mineral concessions. Cerro Prieto is 52 road kilometers from the regional center of Magdalena de Kino (population 40,000) and 150 kilometers northeast of the city of Hermosillo .

Diamond Drilling Underway at Mesa de Plata

Key Points:

• Mesa De Plata: Diamond drilling underway to test high-grade silver discovery

• La Morita: Assay results identify wide zones of anomalous copper mineralisation

Arian Silver – Updated Mineral Resource Estimate

Jim Williams, Chief Executive Officer of Arian Silver, commented: “This updated and independent Mineral Resource Estimate reaffirms our view that the mineral potential of the San José project is robust and has significant potential to be expanded.

Gainey Samples up to 33.30 gpt Gold and 1,550 gpt Silver at the ‘Golden Corridor’

Gainey Capital Corp. is pleased to announce that it has it has received the assay results from its detailed sampling of the ‘Golden Corridor’ at its El Colomo project. The Golden Corridor is a northerly-trending area, 3.5-kms long by 1-km wide, with multiple exposures of sub-parallel mineralized structural zones associated with at least two dome-like felsic intrusions that are hosted by andesitic rocks. Six known mineralized zones are exposed in the Golden Corridor, and it appears to be open along strike. The known zones are La Nueva Victoria, El Arrayan, La Higuerita, La Bufa, La Peñita and El Guayavo.

Timmins Gold Reports Small Tear in New Leach Pads

This week mine staff of Timmins Gold spotted a 2m tear in the liner of the new leach pads at its San Francisco open pit, heap leach gold mine in Sonora, Mexico. The area adjacent to the tear had just been placed under leach and a small amount of the leach fluids flowed over the area of the tear. The Company immediately reported the incident to PROFEPA, the Mexican environmental agency, which has since inspected the area…

First Majestic Completes Acquisition of Silvercrest

Keith Neumeyer, President and CEO of First Majestic said, “With this closing, First Majestic is integrating a well-built, low-cost, profitable silver mine into its large portfolio of operating mines. The Santa Elena Silver Mine, becoming our sixth mine in Mexico, is projected to increase the Company’s total production by approximately 5 million silver equivalent ounces per year. We are very excited to have this free cash flowing mine added to our portfolio.”

Minera Alamos adapts to changing circumstances

Minera Alamos Inc. has been working on its 100%-owned, advanced-stage, Los Verdes, copper-molybdenum project in Sonora, Mexico. Due to the changing conditions in the mining sector, under the leadership of Chris Frostad, CEO, the company has redesigned its 2012 PEA that now features much lower capital expenditures with mine construction targeted to start in 2016.

Southern Silver Identifies New High-Grade Gold-Silver Discovery and Extends Known Zones at Cerro Las Minitas

Southern Silver Exploration Corp. reported today assays results from the first three holes of the +10,000 metre 2015 core drilling program on the Cerro Las Minitas project, located in Durango State, Mexico. Drilling successfully identified a new high-grade gold-silver polymetallic discovery on the project (“Mina La Bocona Extension”) and further extensions to the previously identified Blind and El Sol Deposits.

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