Category: Exploration and Development

Big North Graphite Corp. announces that as part of the Company’s previously announced program of test mining at the Nuevo San Pedro project in Mexico (see News Release of May 24, 2013), Big North has mined and stockpiled approximately 160 tons of amorphous graphite. Big North initiated the test mining/bulk sampling program, as recommended by the Company’s NI 43-101 Technical Report titled “Mexico Graphite Project: Aki Wiki and Nuevo San Pedro Concessions”, to test the existing active and inactive workings. The Company will continue its mining operations and stockpiling as sales options are being reviewed.

Azure Minerals Limited is pleased to announce further exceptional mineralised drill intercepts from the Company’s Cascada copper-gold-silver project, located in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.

Cayden Resources Inc. is pleased to announce that it has received additional high-grade trench results and discovered two large separate gold in soil anomalies on its El Barqueño property located in Jalisco State, Mexico.

Mexican precious metals producer Fresnillo PLC said Wednesday that a court ordered stoppage of its majority-owned Dipolos open pit mine won’t have a material economic impact on the company.

Sierra Metals Inc. is pleased to announce a new silver resource estimate on its Cusihuiriachic Property (Cusi), Chihuahua State, Mexico. These resources are in two areas of the Cusi mine currently in commercial production, Promontorio and Santa Eduwiges, as well as in two prospective areas, La India and San Juan, where the company is doing underground development. This resource estimate was prepared by Gustavson Associates, LLC (“Gustavson”) of Lakewood, Colorado.

Southern Silver Exploration Corp. reported today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Minera Plata del Sur, S.A. de C.V., under the direction of Freeport-McMoRan Exploration Corporation, has completed an initial eight core hole, 3445 metre drill program on the company’s Cerro Las Minitas project located in Durango, Mexico. Freeport-McMoRan Exploration Corporation holds a right to acquire up to a 70% indirect interest in the project.

Excalibur Resources Ltd. is pleased to report the results of two mineralogical studies on stockpiled ore samples collected on the Company’s Catanava property in Pinos, Zacatecas State, Mexico. The studies were completed by Terra Mineralogical Services Inc., the purpose of which is to better understand the ore characteristics and to provide some expected gold and silver recovery estimates. The results of the study indicate that the gold and silver recoveries will be maximized through a combination of a moderate fine primary grind and flotation. The assay results from SGS Lakefield are shown in the following table.

Alamos Gold Inc. and Esperanza Resources Corp. are pleased to announce that they have entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which Alamos has agreed to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Esperanza by way of a court-approved plan of arrangement.

Cientos de trabajadores mineros y metalúrgicos de la empresa minera Frisco se manifestaron hoy en la capital de Zacatecas, para exigir al gobernador Miguel Alonso Reyes su intervención inmediata para que la mina sea liberada por decenas de simpatizantes de Napoleón Gómez Urrutia.

Santacruz Silver Mining Ltd. is pleased to announce the first results from an ongoing 25,000 m diamond drill program at its San Felipe project in Sonora State, Mexico. Drilling is primarily focused on the La Ventana, Las Lamas and Transversales group of veins. Results from the first six holes are reported below.