Category: Exploration and Development

Aurizon Mines Ltd. acknowledges the announcement made on January 14, 2013 by Alamos Gold Incorporated of its commencement of an unsolicited bid for all of the issued and outstanding shares of Aurizon that it currently does not own.

McEwen Mining Inc. is pleased to announce the results of its first year of production and for its Fourth Quarter 2012. For the full-year 2012, the Company produced 105,050 gold eq. oz (48,876 gold oz and 2,921,242 silver oz) and in Q4 produced 32,220 gold eq. oz (17,578 gold oz and 761,377 silver oz). Silver production has been converted into gold equivalent ounces (gold eq. oz) based on a 52:1 ratio.

Minera Frisco, a través de su subsidiaria Minera Espejeras, presentó el Manifiesto de Impacto Ambiental (MIA), requerido por la Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (Semarnat), para reactivar el trámite de autorización de los trabajos de exploración en yacimientos de oro en el municipio de Tetela de Ocampo.

Santacruz Silver Mining Ltd. announces that further to its press release of November 20, 2012 the Company has received results from 18 additional diamond drill holes as part of an ongoing 6,000 meter diamond drill program at its 100% owned Gavilanes Silver project in Durango, Mexico. The current drill program is designed to test three of seven known silver-bearing veins and a stockwork area within the 7,347 hectare property.

International Northair Mines Ltd. is pleased to announce assay results from ten recent core holes positioned in the Las Carolinas Zone of its La Cigarra silver project located in north central Mexico.

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

SilverCrest Mines announced Monday further drilling results from its Santa Elena mine in Mexico, which the company says continue to be “extremely encouraging”.

Emilio Alvarez announced today that he has filed a lawsuit in Delaware requesting that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware compel Pan American Goldfields Ltd. to hold an annual meeting of stockholders for the purpose of electing a full board of directors, which has not occurred since 2001. The lawsuit was filed with the Court of Chancery on December 14, 2012.

SilverCrest Mines Inc. is pleased to announce results of further drilling at the Santa Elena Mine in Sonora, Mexico. Ninety four holes of a planned 100 holes have been completed to help re-categorize Indicated and Inferred Resources to Probable Reserves and expand current underground Resources. This drill program continues to be extremely successful with several recent holes identifying multiple bonanza grade intercepts and the new El Cholugo high grade gold and silver zone. All holes included in this program will assist with Resource confirmation and reclassification to be included in the upcoming Pre-Feasibility Study for the Santa Elena Expansion Project.

Alamos Gold Inc. announced today that is has filed a National Instrument 43-101 compliant technical report on its Mulatos project on the Canadian Securities Administrators’ System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval.