Category: Exploration and Development

Defiance Silver Corp. is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement with the Ejido Sauceda de la Borda that grants Defiance temporary occupation rights to carry out exploration within all of the mineral concessions underlying the Ejido lands. Combined with existing surface access rights, Defiance now has the ability to conduct surface work and drilling along the entire 5.6 km strike length of the San Acacio vein system.

Source Exploration Corp. announces the commencement of a 2,000 metre diamond drilling program at its Las Minas property. The drilling will focus on delineating high-grade zones outlined by earlier drilling programs at the Santa Cruz and Juan Bran discovery areas in preparation for an initial mineral resource estimate.

Endeavour Silver Corp. has initiated a major expansion of its El Cubo mine in Guanajuato state, Mexico. The Company plans to ramp up mine output over the next four months from 1,550 tonnes per day, the current El Cubo plant capacity, to 2,200 tpd.

A complex financing arrangement will put majority control of one of Tampa Bay’s most intriguing public companies in the hands of a Mexican mining company.

Mexus Gold US is pleased and excited to announce that our placer plant is fully operational and producing gold. Mexus’ newly rebuilt VFC automated feeder is in place feeding as of Sunday March 15th. This should increase our placer operation from 150 tons to 600 tons per day, which will put Mexus into a positive cash flow and allow Mexus to complete our blasting license, advance our underground high grade gold operation, and to proceed with our ultimate target of drilling and proving the resources of our open pit/heap leach operation.

The southwestern Mexican town of Iguala was the scene of further tragedy Sunday as three Goldcorp Inc miners were found dead, after they were believed to have been abducted, family members said.

GOLDCORP INC. announced today that its subsidiary, Minera Peñasquito, has reached a definitive court approved settlement with the Cerro Gordo Ejido relating to surface land rights to 600 hectares (approximately 1,483 acres) of land located within the confines of the Peñasquito Mine site.

VVC Exploration Corporation is pleased to report on the positive comments by the Honorable César Duarte Jáquez, Governor of Chihuahua during his press conference in Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, regarding zoning changes for a “near-production” copper project in Northern Mexico owned by Samalayuca Cobre S.A. de C.V., a company which is 33.75% owned by VVC Exploration Corporation.

Sierra Metals Inc. is pleased to announce that on Tuesday, March 11th at 5:20 pm the Agua Caliente power substation connected to the new 115kw line was activated and by 8:12 pm the Piedras Verdes ore processing plant was running off of the 33kw line from the substation.

Durante 2014, la minería de oro y plata registró una inversión extranjera directa por mil 165.6 millones de dólares, una caída de 39.6%, la primer baja en tres años, derivado principalmente de un mayor cobro de impuestos a la extracción y los menores precios en los metales preciosos.