Category: Exploration and Development

Excellon resumes operations at Platosa Mine

Excellon Resources Inc. reports that employees returned to work over the weekend and production has resumed at the Platosa Mine in Durango, Mexico following a pause in operations for a safety review. Operations were paused after two employees, Evaristo Nova Soto, a 31-year-old electrical supervisor, and Jorge Carillo Rivera, a 25-year-old general serviceman, were fatally injured during routine operations on the evening of January 9, 2014.

Caminaron por las calles principales de Bermejillo

Trabajadores mineros marcharon en silencio, exigieron mejores condiciones de trabajo y honraron la memoria de sus compañeros fallecidos en la mina La Platosa. Evaristo Nava Soto y Jorge Carrillo Rivera murieron el jueves pasado a causa de una descarga eléctrica en la mina propiedad de Excellon Resources Inc.

Excellon Resources Inc. : Fatal accident at Excellon’s Platosa Mine

Excellon Resources Inc. announces with great regret and sorrow that two employees were fatally injured by an electrical shock yesterday evening during routine operation of an underground pump in the Platosa Mine in Durango, Mexico. Mine rescue workers were dispatched immediately and the injured employees were removed from the mine. Unfortunately, despite the efforts of the responders, they were later pronounced dead at the hospital. The families of the workers were notified and the Company is ensuring that they receive all possible support.

Cayden drills 35.5 meters of 1.62 g/t gold and 18 meters of 3.38 g/t gold in two separate mineralized structures at El Barqueño

Cayden Resources Inc. is pleased to announce results from the Company’s ongoing core drilling program at the El Barqueño Gold Property in Jalisco State, Mexico.
 Drilling highlights include 35.5 meters of 1.62 g/t Au, 214 g/t Ag, and 0.66 % Cu in hole 15, 18 meters of 3.38 g/t Au in hole 21 and 10 meters of 4.4 g/t Au in hole 24. Hole 25, the furthest hole drilled in the northeast part of the Zapoteca structure, hit three different intercepts of stock work mineralization including 27 meters of 1.16 g/t Au starting at surface.

Goldgroup Announces First Gold Production from the Cerro Prieto Mine

Goldgroup Mining Inc. is pleased to announce that the Company has produced 285 ounces of gold from the initial gold production in December 2013 from its Cerro Prieto heap-leach mine located in Sonora, Mexico. Goldgroup is also pleased to announce that the Cerro Colorado mine, which is also located in Sonora, Mexico, continues to leach gold and the Company expects this to continue well into 2014.

IMPACT Silver Encounters More High Grade Silver and Gold Adjacent to its Noche Buena Mine in Zacualpan, Mexico

IMPACT Silver Corp. is pleased to announce second phase drill results from the San Juan Project, located 150 meters north of its producing Noche Buena Mine and four kilometers southwest of its 500-tpd Guadalupe Production Centre. The San Juan Project area encompasses a series of large old mine workings containing multiple working levels that previously exploited the gold-rich Carlos Pacheco Vein within the Valle de Oro sub-district of the Royal Mines of Zacualpan Silver-Gold District of central Mexico.

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