Category: Exploration and Development

Lake Shore Gold is selling all of its Mexican properties to Revolution Resources so that it can keep its management team and finances focused on its Canadian assets.

Mexico’s new government is considering relaunching an abandoned rescue effort to reach the bodies of 63 miners in a coal mine in northern Mexico since 2006, one of the worst mining disasters in the country’s history.

Almaden Minerals Ltd. announces that it has commenced a diamond drill program on its 100% owned El Cobre porphyry copper-gold project in Veracruz State, Mexico. Drilling has been planned to test various geophysical and geochemical anomalies within this extensive porphyry copper-gold system. The drill program consists of one drill capable of drilling to >1,000 meters depth. An initial 5,000 meters is planned, comprised of 5 to 8 >500 meter deep holes.

GoGold Resources Inc. is pleased to announce the completion of a Pre-Feasibility Study on its Parral Tailings project in Chihuahua State, Mexico which defines a reserve of 35 million Silver Equivalent Ounces and a pre-tax internal rate of return of 80%. The study projects an initial capital cost of $35 million and a life of mine of 12 years with an average annual production of 1.8 million Silver Equivalent Ounces* (1.2 million ounces of silver and 11,000 ounces of gold). The mine production is planned at 5,000 tonnes per day on a conventional heap leach with a sustaining capital of $27.5 million over LOM. The Pre-Feasibility Study on the Parral Tailings Project in Chihuahua, Mexico was prepared by The MDM Group of South Africa, in accordance with the requirements of Canadian National Instrument 43-101 “Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects”.

Sonora Resources Corp., a mineral exploration and development company focused on the acquisition and exploration of international silver and gold mining properties, is pleased to announce that on February 15, 2013, the Company entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement with Yale Resources Ltd. to purchase all of the right, title and interest in and to the Los Amoles 2 and Los Amoles 3 Fracc.1 properties, consisting of 2,166 hectares located in the State of Sonora Mexico. Yale will use all commercially reasonable efforts to acquire title to the Los Amoles 4 property which is approximately an additional 2,200 hectares adjoining the Los Amoles 3 property. The Company has agreed to purchase the Property from Yale by issuing 1,000,000 of restricted SURE common shares and making cash payments totaling US$200,000.

Representantes de sindicatos canadienses documentan la presunta violación a los derechos humanos de los trabajadores mineros de la Sección 309 del Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores Mineros, Metalúrgicos, Siderúrgicos y Similares de la República Mexicana (SNTMMSSRM) y ejidatarios y ejidatarias de La Sierrita de que son objeto por parte de la empresa minera canadiense Excellon Resources Inc.

Mundoro Capital Inc. is pleased to provide an update on the exploration activity at its 100% owned Camargo Property in Southeastern Chihuahua State, Mexico.

Torex Gold Resources Inc. is pleased to report that it continues to intersect high grade gold mineralization over significant widths at both the Media Luna and Media Luna West targets at the Company’s Morelos Gold Project in Mexico. At Media Luna, borehole WZML-07 intersected 36.18 g/t Au over 26.7m; borehole ML-200 intersected 12.58 g/t Au over 6.0m; borehole NEZML-12 intersected 14.71 g/t Au over 5.7m and 5.49 g/t Au over 20.3m; and borehole WZML-16 intersected 4.25 g/t Au over 13.1m. At Media Luna West, borehole MLW-05 intersected 48.0 g/t Au over 2.8m.

Silver Bull Resources, Inc. is pleased to announce the drill results for the fourth of five batches of drill holes from the underground drill program twinning a series of “long holes” in the high grade zinc zone situated below and adjacent to the high grade silver zone, located at the eastern end of the Shallow Silver Zone on the Sierra Mojada Project in Coahuila, Northern Mexico.

Yale Resources Ltd. is pleased to report that it has signed a formal Agreement with Sonora Resources Corp. to sell a 100% interest in Yale’s wholly owned Los Amoles Property located in Sonora State, Mexico, for US$ 200,000 and 1,000,000 shares in Sonora Resources. Yale has received $US 30,000 upon signing of the agreement and will receive the remaining US$170,000 and the shares upon presentation of transfer documentation.