Category: Exploration and Development

Scientists and conservationists are calling on the International Seabed Authority, now meeting in Jamaica, to adopt stronger-than-proposed protections for wildlife and oceans in setting environmental standards for deep-sea mining projects. The Center for Biological Diversity, which recently sued the United States government for issuing deep-sea mining permits that circumvent the ISA’s nascent environmental review process, warns that the current push to start strip-mining the ocean floor could do irreparable damage to marine life.

Golden Minerals Company announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Minera William S.A. de C.V., owner of the Velardena Properties in Durango State, Mexico, has entered into a lease agreement with Minera Hecla, S.A. de C.V., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hecla Mining Company.

Tamino Minerals is actively working with its geologists to start the exploration program for 2015 on 2 of our Mining Exploration Projects. The program is expected to begin during Q3 2015 and last approximately 6 months.

Gainey Capital Corp. is pleased to announce that is has identified 3 gold anomalies through the company’s steam sediment sampling program at its 100% owned, 192-km2, El Colomo property that is located in the Sierra Madre Occidental Trend in Western Mexico.

La diputada loretana Guadalupe Olay Davis, del Partido Nueva Alianza (PNAL), se pronunció desde la tribuna permanente del Congreso del Estado en contra de la actividad minera en BCS, asegurando que es incompatible con el sentido turístico que se busca ofrecer, así como con la designación de Pueblo Mágico que ostenta Loreto, revelando que la empresa australiana “Azure Minerals” se ha apropiado de más de 9,500 hectáreas de San Juan Londó con el fin de explotar cobre.

Candente Gold Corp. provides the following progress update on cyanide leach extraction testwork at McClelland Laboratories, Inc. in Sparks, Nevada for Candente Gold’s Mexico Mine Tailings Recovery Operation located in El Oro, Mexico.

Azure’s Managing Director, Tony Rovira, stated: “Puerto del Oro is a very promising addition to the growing number of exciting, high quality targets we have identified in the first six months of our exploration activities at Alacrán. The prospect is in close proximity to San Simon and Mesa de Plata where we have already identified potential for significant gold and silver mineralisation, and will be included in the upcoming drill program which is scheduled to commence in late July.”

Mexus Gold US announced today that after months of negotiating with several mining companies an agreement has been reached. President Paul Thompson is proud to announce that Mexus has signed an option/joint venture agreement with Minera Real del Oro S.A. de C.V., a Mexican corporation, which is wholly owned by Argonaut Gold Inc. Argonaut has the knowledge and experience along with the necessary capital to plan, drill, and bring the Julio/Martha Elena project into production..

Azure Minerals Limited is pleased to announce that the first phase of airborne geophysical surveying program at Promontorio has been completed. This program is part of the Earn-In and Joint Venture Agreement with Kennecott Exploration Mexico S.A. de C. V., part of the Rio Tinto Group.

Deep sea mining is one of those long-held commercial dreams that just decades ago seemed to be a sci-fi fantasy. But now that firms and international groups are preparing to shift their very costly exploratory projects into lucrative operations, environmental groups are pushing to get the right international regulations in place to protect deep sea ecosystems.