Category: Exploration and Development

Paul Weedon, Senior Vice President of Exploration, commented, “Drilling by the mine geology team recognized a new blind zone of alteration and brecciation, resulting in the intersection of 1,299 g/t Ag Eq over 9.9 meters in drill hole SJOM-1387, and 621 g/t Ag Eq over 5 meters in drill hole SJOM-1391. This new zone has been named the Yessi vein.”

Andrew Swarthout, Director and Qualified Person, states, “Our 2023 drilling program at Mercedes has to date concentrated on improving operations and production in the current workings. We are very excited by the results of this underground drilling program, which have returned intercepts with gold grades substantially higher – in some cases up to 30 times higher – than the currently defined resources of the deposits in which they occur.”

Mr. Mike Struthers (CEO of Luca) commented, “We’re excited to work with EnviroGold on this project, building on the initial test work in 2021. The encouraging results from those initial tests, plus the very real potential to also recover base metals from the tailings, could generate significant value from this old tailings facility. More importantly, if the initial project is successful, the potential to add this metals recovery stream to the existing plant could add considerable future value to Campo Morado.”

Dale Wallster, CEO of Southern Empire, stated: “With Suaqui Verde, I believe that our team can create significant near-term value for Southern Empire shareholders. Copper, which has just been added to the U.S. Department of Energy’s List of Critical Materials, is now often referred to as the ‘new green metal’ as the electrification and decarbonisation of the world will not happen without it.”

Glenn Jessome, President and CEO, stated: “Based on representative samples from the Sulphide, Black Shale and Surface Stockwork Zones, we are pleased to report very high silver, gold and base metal recoveries. For flotation tests of the Sulphide and Black Shale Zones we note tremendous recoveries of 96 to 98% total silver equivalency for the milling process on the underground deposit; and for the open pit heap leach column tests we note that silver equivalency recoveries average above 78%, which represents a high recovery for a low-cost leaching process.”

“The drilling at Palos Verdes this year has been focussed on drilling areas that have not been drilled previously because they were not accessible under our previous environmental permit,” said Craig Gibson, President and CEO of the Company.

“The Bulk Sample process has been extremely important to the understanding of the surface expression of mineralization at Pilar along with defining a path towards optimal gold and silver recovery.” Stated Brodie Sutherland, CEO. “We are encouraged by the strong heap leach results for gold where the data suggests recovery can be improved through increased leaching solution flowrate over a consistent and longer leaching period.”

Commenting on these results, Chairman and CEO, James Anderson said, “For 40 years Industrias Penoles, the largest mining company in Mexico, mined the Argentina vein at Topia. Remarkably, the vein was not pursued to the east of the district, past a significant fault structure; we are very encouraged by these initial results that indicate production potential within 2km of our mill facility from this long-lived precious metals vein system.”

“Infill and expansionary drilling targeting the southern extent of Napoleon continues to intersect high silver and gold grades on both the main vein and its overlapping splay structures,” commented Michael Konnert, President and CEO. “We have now identified several splay veins branching off the main Napoleon structure located within both the footwall and hanging wall that remain open for future expansion.”

“We’re happy with the results from our additional hundred drill holes in the Main zone at Los Ricos South since our initial July 2020 Mineral Resource Estimate, including todays results. We believe they will prove to be quite impactful on our upcoming updated Resource and Preliminary Economic Assessment,” said Brad Langille, President and CEO.