Category: Exploration and Development

Cangold Limited provides an update from the recent field work program on the Plomo gold project in northern Sonora, Mexico. Further geological mapping and detailed surface rock sampling was completed to locate and delineate complex structural zones and associated low grade bulk tonnage gold mineralization for follow-up drill testing. Several new areas of gold mineralization were discovered such that the Plomo project now has nine gold zones associated with low angle faulting within a one and a half by five kilometre area.

Focus Ventures Ltd. is pleased to announce assays from initial channel sampling at its Reventon property within the Santa Cruz project. Prospecting and sampling has confirmed high-grade silver mineralization associated with multiple zones of hydrothermal breccias in areas of strongly anomalous silver-in-soil geochemistry.

Canasil Resources Inc. announces that MAG Silver Corp. has confirmed that the Phase 2 drill program has started and is currently in progress at Canasil’s La Esperanza silver-lead-zinc project in Durango and Zacatecas States, Mexico. The planned program includes up to 3,500 metres of diamond drilling to test silver-lead-zinc veins in the northwest of the project area. This drill program will be part of the CAD 1,500,000 exploration expenditures required between September 2012 and September 2013 under the option agreement for MAG to earn a 60% interest in the La Esperanza project.

Canadian mining company Excellon Resources said Friday it hopes that peace has been restored to its Mexican mine after it dismantled a protest camp it says was set up on property it owns.

Mexican silver producer Fresnillo PLC said Thursday the Board has approved the feasibility study for the development of the 500 million dollar San Julian silver project, is a key project in reaching the Company’s goal to produce 65 million ounces of silver and 500,000 ounces of gold per year by 2018.

146 g/t (4.3 oz/T) Ag, 2.8% Pb, 1.9% Zn, 0.216 g/t Au over 43.4 metres including 381 g/t (11.1 oz/T) Ag, 10.6% Pb, 11.5% Zn, 0.354 g/t Au over 5.8 metres

— 4.6Mt @ 154 g/t AgEq initial Inferred resource estimate, containing
22.5moz AgEq (including 15moz Ag; 41,000t Pb; and 76,000t Zn);
— Recently completed IP survey identifies a potentially faulted offset of
the Princesa-America mineral system to the north.

Silver Bull Intersects 193.38 g/t Silver over 43.65 Meters Including 440.66 g/t Over 15 Meters on the Sierra Mojada Project, Coahuila, Mexico

Oroco Resource Corp. announces that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Minera Xochipala S.A. de C.V. has been served with notice of an “amparo” petition seeking to overturn the registration to MX by the Mexican Public Registry of Mining of an interest in the Celia Gene and Celia Generosa mineral concessions located in Guerrero State, Mexico. The registration process in question began with an application by MX in March, 2008 to the PRM for registration of its 2007 acquisition of the Xochipala Concessions, including the interest purchased from the estate of a Mexican citizen, Hector Camacho (the “Camacho Estate”), which constituted fifty percent (50%) of the Celia Gene concession and all (100%) of the Celia Generosa concession.

Almaden Minerals Ltd. is pleased to announce further results from the on-going exploration drill program at the Company’s 100% owned Tuligtic project, Mexico with holes TU-12-176, 181, 186, 188 to 195, 197 to, 200, 203, 205, 206, 209 and 216. The holes were drilled as part of Almaden’s on-going four drill exploration program which has been designed to enable the calculation of a preliminary resource estimate. The intersections reported today demonstrate the continuity of the known mineralisation as well as the presence of high grades locally. Highlights from the holes released today include the following intercepts: