Category: Exploration and Development

Golden Tag Expands Bulk Mining Potential With 148 g/t AgEQ(i) Over 241 Metres and 119 g/t AgEQ(i) Over 233 Metres on the San Diego Property, Mexico

Golden Tag Resources Ltd. is pleased to announce encouraging results from three recent drill holes in an ongoing surface drill program on the San Diego Property, Velardeña Mining District, Durango State, Mexico. These holes confirm a 100 m extension to the west of wide zones of mineralization discovered in 2011. The westward extension of mineralization crosses from limestone into the adjacent Diorite Intrusion where a large area of mineralization hosted in altered and silicified Diorite (Endoskarn) is being delineated. Mineralization currently has an apparent strike length of 200 m, a width of 130 m and a vertical height of 300 m. Mineralization remains open and further drilling will be needed to establish the exact geometry of the new zone. The discovery increases the potential for the deposit to be bulk mining amenable.

Bowmore-Amex Intersect High Grade Gold-Silver Veins at Chivas Property, Sonora Mexico

Bowmore Exploration Ltd. is pleased pleased to announce the results from its summer drilling campaign on the Chivas property, located in Sonora province, Mexico. The drilling outlined a new hydrothermal mineralized breccia structure at Mesa Blanca, and also extended laterally and at depth the Piedra Rodante high grade low-sulfidation structure discovered by Amex’s Mexican subsidiary ‘Minerales X-Ore’ in 2006.

McEwen Mining Announces First Gold Pour at El Gallo Phase I in Mexico

McEwen Mining Inc. is pleased to announce that El Gallo Phase I in Sinaloa State, Mexico has achieved its first gold production (Fig. 1 & 2). The mine, which is 100% owned by McEwen Mining, is expected to produce 10,000 ounces of gold during the balance of this year. In 2013, the annual production is forecasted to be 30,000 ounces of gold.

Quaterra Releases Favourable Preliminary Economic Asssessment on Nieves Silver Project

Quaterra Resources Inc. and its 50% joint-venture partner Blackberry Ventures I, LLC, today announced that an independent preliminary economic assessment has concluded that their Nieves silver property in Zacatecas State, Mexico, has the potential to be developed as an open pit mine that would average more than five million ounces of silver production per year over a projected ten-year mine life.

Endeavour Silver Continues to Extend High Grade Silver-Gold Mineralization in the Daniela Vein at the Bolanitos Mine in Mexico; Drilling Intersects 1,040 gpt Silver and 1.9 gpt Gold Over 0.4 Meter Width

Endeavour Silver Corp. announces that exploration drilling at Endeavour’s Bolanitos Mine in Guanajuato State, Mexico continues to intersect high silver and gold grades over mineable widths, extending the known mineralized zone in the Daniela vein to more than 950 meters (m) long, still open for expansion.

Sucesos en La Cieneguita, Mpio. Urique, Chih.

La semana pasada se sucedieron hechos de terrorismo en la Sierra de Chihuahua dentro del Municipio de Urique en el Estado de Chihuahua en donde hace ya mas de un año se convive con grupos delictivos que se dedican a asaltar y a matar a los que se les enfrentan, sin que las Autoridades hayan podido ponerles freno, el caso es que la semana pasada la Empresa Gold Corp., Mina El Sauzal resintió el secuestro de dos Empleados, además de que los Proveedores del Estado de Sinaloa se han retirado al no tener garantías de circular de Choix por El Potrero y Tubares por los frecuentes retenes de malandros armados hasta los dientes que, en el mejor de los casos solo les roban, ante esta situación los Directivos de la Mina optaron por evacuar a su Personal vía aérea, un tren de aviones hasta sacar vivo al ultimo. En La Cieneguita Lluvia de Oro, Mpio. Urique, Chihuahua están dos Empresas Mineras Minera Rio Tinto, S.A. de C.V. a la que he venido prestando servicios en calidad de Gerente General y Piedras Verdes de Minera Dia Bras con minados subterráneos en tanto Nosotros explotamos a Cielo Abierto. Se Nos pidieron a ambas Minas las listas de Personal so pretexto de buscar infiltrados de los contras que provenían de Choix y venían a matar a todos?

Letter from Gabriel Zendejas on Recent Attacks in the Municipality of Urique, Chihuahua

Last week, acts of terrorism occurred in the Sierra of Chihuahua within the Municipality of Urique in Chihuahua state, where for more than a year, we have been living with criminal groups engaged in robbing and killing those who resist, without the authorities being able to stop them. Last week, the company Gold Corp., Mina El Sauzal suffered the kidnapping of two employees. The distributors from Sinaloa have cancelled deliveries due to the lack of security along the stretch of road from Choix passing through El Potrero and Tubares where there are frequent checkpoints manned by heavily armed thugs who, in the best of cases, only rob them. Faced with this situation, the managers of the mine chose to evacuate all remaining staff by small planes. In La Cieneguita – Lluvia de Oro, Municipality of Urique, Chihuahua there are two mining companies, Minera Rio Tinto, S.A. de C.V. to which I have been serving as General Manager, and Dia Bras, the owner of the Piedras Verdes underground mine. We have an open pit mine. We were asked to provide a list of all personnel under the pretext of finding enemies hiding among the mine workers, or they threatened to come and kill everyone.

Oroco Announces Commencement of Exploration at its Xochipala Project

Oroco Resource Corp. is pleased to announce the commencement of an exploration program on its Xochipala Project in Guerrero State, Mexico. The project is located at the southern end of a gold rich district in Mexico called the Guerrero Gold Belt. To date more than 19 million ounces of NI 43-101 compliant gold resources in all categories have been reported, including Los Filos (goldcorp inc.:13.58 million ounces gold proven)(goldcorp inc.:probable)(goldcorp inc.:measured)(goldcorp inc.:indicated)(goldcorp inc.:and inferred as at 2011); El Limon and Los Guajes (torex gold resources inc.:5.44 million ounces gold measured)(torex gold resources inc.:indicated and inferred ounces as at September)(torex gold resources inc.:2012); and Ana Paula (newstrike capital inc.:currently estimating its resource). The Xochipala Property is the last remaining under-explored target in the GGB that has geological characteristics similar to the known deposits, including the existence of a strong magnetic signature and extensive areas of alteration associated with the contact between intrusives and sediments.

Maza Drilling is a Mexican company established in 2007 in Mazatlán, Sinaloa. Our Canadian founder, Mr. Guy de Launiere, has over 20 years of international experience managing diverse drilling operations. Maza Drilling strives to compete at the highest levels in terms of recovery, effectiveness, efficiency, and affordability at every project while keeping at the forefront of technology to meet our customer’s needs in this demanding market.

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Maza Drilling is a Mexican company established in 2007 in Mazatlán, Sinaloa. Our Canadian founder, Mr. Guy de Launiere, has over 20 years of international experience managing diverse drilling operations. Maza Drilling strives to compete at the highest levels in terms of recovery, effectiveness, efficiency, and affordability at every project while keeping at the forefront of technology to meet our customer’s needs in this demanding market.