Category: Exploration and Development

San Marco Acquires Option to Purchase the Angeles Prospect

San Marco has acquired an option to purchase 100% interest in the 362 ha. Angeles property in Sonora State, Mexico. The property has many old historical workings and according to locals, hosted a high grade underground copper, gold and silver mine at the beginning of the 20th century as indicated by remnants of milling, mining facilities as well as tailings.

Cortez Gold Corp.: Construction Underway on Gold-Silver Processing Plant

Cortez Gold Corp. is pleased to report that it has commenced construction to complete the gold-silver processing plant situated in Matehuala, Mexico. The Company recently closed the transaction to acquire 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of Altiplano Goldsilver S.A. de C.V. of Mexico by issuing 6,000,000 shares of Cortez to the shareholders of Altiplano Goldsilver with a commitment to spend US$1.3 million to develop and complete construction of the processing plant.

Oremex Silver identifies new, high grade, gold-silver zones at San Lucas project

Oremex Silver Inc. is pleased to report positive results from a recently completed surface outcrop sampling program in the El Doctor zone of the wholly-owned San Lucas silver project. The El Doctor zone had not been previously sampled at the surface. In 2007, the Company completed drilling nearby that is being re-examined for a better understanding of the potential of the previously unrecognized gold-silver mineralization and to plan a drilling program.

MAG Silver Reports Juanicipio Updated PEA Study Prepared by AMC

MAG Silver Corp. is pleased to announce the results of an updated National Instrument 43-101 compliant Preliminary Economic Assessment for the Juanicipio Project in Zacatecas State, Mexico. The Updated Preliminary Economic Assessment was commissioned by Minera Juanicipio S.A. de C.V., a Mexican joint venture company, owned 44% by MAG and 56% by Fresnillo plc and was carried out by AMC Mining Consultants (Canada) Ltd.

Urastar Intercepts 24m of 3.32g/T Gold Near Surface at El Jabali Property in Mulatos Gold Belt

Urastar Gold Corp. announces drilling results for 805m reverse circulation, “RC” drill program on the El Jabali property including several intercepts of near surface high-grade gold. The El Jabali Gold project is located in the prolific Sierra Madre Gold Belt approximately 7 km from Alamos Gold’s flagship Mulatos Gold Mine (see location map at www.Urastargold.com ) and only 1.5 km from Urastar’s La Juliana project (see news release dated 10 April 2012). The program was designed to test for extension of the La Dura gold mineralization, north of the open pit and south on the El Jabali Mine Trend.

Torex Discovers Gold South of the Balsas River

Torex Gold Resources Inc. is pleased to announce that the initial drill program at its Media Luna target, south of the Balsas River, on the Morelos Project in Mexico, has discovered consistent gold mineralization over a 900 meter strike length. The first five holes drilled into the Media Luna target are reported, with intervals that include 6.13 g/t Au, 58.7 g/t Ag, and 2.40% Cu over 4.8m in ML-01, and 4.27 g/t Au, 9.0 g/t Ag and 0.78% Cu, over 4.4m in ML-02, and 6.56 g/t Au, 10 g/t Ag and 1.15% Cu, over 7.1m in ML-08.

Geologix Outlines New 1800 x 600 Metre Gold And Silver Enriched Zone At Tepal With Surface Results Up To 6.88 g/t Gold And 433 g/t Silver

Geologix Explorations Inc. is pleased to report results from a 1.8 x 0.6 kilometre gold and silver enriched zone identified by extensive rock sampling. The area called Target Area #3 is located 1 km north of the proposed prefeasibility mill location. Highlight samples from Target Area #3 include 6.88 grams per tonne gold over 2.0 metres and 433 g/t silver over 1.6m. A total of 656 rock chip samples were collected, of which 68 samples are 217% higher in gold and 233 samples are 1036% higher in silver than the current Measured and Indicated resource grades being used in the prefeasibility study. For maps please go to the Tepal Project at the Company’s webpage (www.geologix.ca).

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