Category: Exploration and Development

Riverside Resources Inc. is pleased to announce that it has signed an option agreement with Argonaut Gold Inc. to acquire a 100% interest in the Glor Gold Project, located approximately 8 km west of AuRico’s El Chanate Mine in Sonora, Mexico. The Project acquisition and initial mapping and sampling work was completed as part of alliance funded activities through Riverside’s strategic alliance with Hochschild Mining Plc.

Northair Silver Corp. is pleased to announce positive results from its ongoing mapping and sampling program at its flagship La Cigarra silver project located in Chihuahua State, Mexico.

Santacruz Silver Mining Ltd. is pleased to announce that the Company has received approval from PROFEPA and SEMARNAT (Mexico’s environmental regulatory authorities) to resume operations at its Rosario Mine, located near Charcas, San Luis Potosi. Accordingly, the Company has recommenced operations at its Rosario Mine. The approval was received following completion of the remediation and cleanup of an approximate amount of 2,000 m3 of tailings pulp discharged outside of the Rosario Mine tailings impoundment system on January 2, 2015.

Copper rose as much as 0.6 percent. Some of the world’s largest copper mines were forced to shut down as rains in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile closed roads and flooded towns. Codelco, the world’s biggest copper producer, shut all of its Atacama mines including Chuquicamata and Radomiro Tomic, according to the state-owned company.

Ejidatarios de San Martín, Colón, se manifestaron frente a la empresa minera Peña de Bernal para exigir el pago de indemnización por daños ocasionados a tierras de uso común, ello luego de que acusaron a la compañía de haber realizado la explotación subterránea en seis hectáreas sin el consentimiento de los ejidatarios.

BACANORA MINERALS LTD. is pleased to provide an update of activities on its wholly owned La Ventana concession as well as on concessions held by Mexilit S.A. de C.V. and Megalit S.A. de C.V., companies owned 70% by Bacanora and 30% by Rare Earth Minerals PLC in Sonora, Mexico.

Una de las empresas mineras que solicitó a la Secretaría de Energía (Sener) la adjudicación directa de contratos para la extracción de gas natural fue señalada en 2012 como colaboradora de personas presuntamente vinculadas con el grupo delictivo de Los Zetas.

San Marco Resources Inc. has commenced its 2015 exploration program on the Cuatro de Mayo project in Sonora State, Mexico. The Company’s geological team is currently on site, conducting a systematic data and field review of gold targets in the El Valle and El Chunibas areas. With minimal additional work, these two zones are expected to be ready for drill testing…

Orex Minerals Inc. and their project partner Fresnillo PLC are scheduling a Phase-IV exploration diamond drilling program of approximately 4,500 metres for the Coneto Gold-Silver Project in Durango, Mexico. Drilling is expected to re-commence in April 2015.

Primero Mining Corp. today announces its 2014 year-end Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources, as well as the discovery of a new high-grade vein intersected by existing infrastructure at its San Dimas mine located in Durango, Mexico .