Category: Exploration and Development

Surface Land Agreement Completed and Subsequent Mine Permit Filed on Carmen Silver-Gold Project, Sonora Mexico

Silver Scott Mines, Inc. is pleased to announce the completion of a 6 year extendable surface land agreement for exploration within the 1500 hectare mineral concessions and mining or high impact disturbance on 20 hectares. The agreement was the completion of proposed mining with the Divisaderos Ejido. The ejido vote was unanimous in favor of the proposal. The prior low impact surface agreement continues in effect. This completed agreement allows the company to move forward with a planned production scale bulk tonnage leach test.

Bacanora Completes Second Round of Drilling on Ventana Lithium Deposit, the Reconnaissance of El Sauz Lithium Prospect and Provides Operational Update on the Borate Programme

Bacanora Minerals Ltd. is pleased to announce it has successfully met its objective of proving the lateral continuity of the hectorite-polylithionite clay mineralization on the Ventana Lithium deposit. Bacanora intends to generate a National Instrument 43-101 compliant Lithium Carbonate Equivalent with an initial resource estimate on Ventana in Q1 2012. This round of drilling follows up on the impressive results from the first drill program which included drillhole LV-04 which returned a thick section of 54.25 metres averaging 2,713 ppm Li (1.45% Li2CO3) over the entire sample width. (see Bacanora’s news release dated Jan 21, 2011).

Goldgroup Announces Additional Diamond Drill Holes at Caballo Blanco Project Yielding Significant Gold Intercepts

Goldgroup Mining Inc. is pleased to announce that additional diamond drill holes at its Caballo Blanco gold project in Veracruz, Mexico have yielded significant gold intercepts, expanding the La Paila oxide gold zone to the west and southwest. All ten drill holes reported below (see Tables 1 and 2 and the drill hole location map) are part of the ongoing drill program to define and to expand the southwestern flank of the La Paila gold zone as the zone currently remains open in this direction.

War Eagle Corporate Update

War Eagle Mining Company Inc. is pleased to report that its shareholders approved all of the resolutions proposed at War Eagle’s annual general and special meeting of shareholders held on December 8, 2011. In particular, shareholders approved the planned reverse takeover of the Company by Andromeda Resources Inc. as fully described in the Company’s information circulation dated November 9, 2011.

Chesapeake Gold Corp.: Significant Progress Towards Completion of the Pre-Feasibility Study Reported on Metates

Chesapeake Gold Corp. is pleased to provide an update to various activities and related developments on its 100% owned Metates gold-silver project located in Durango State, Mexico. Metates hosts one of the largest known undeveloped gold and silver deposits containing 17.2 million ounces gold, 466 million ounces silver and 3.4 billion pounds zinc (Measured + Indicated) and 2.6 million ounces gold, 62 million ounces silver and 360 million pounds zinc (Inferred). The April 2011 updated Preliminary Economic Assessment (“PEA”) reported that the Metates project would produce an average of 759,000 ounces gold and 20.0 million ounces silver annually over a 19 year mine life with strong project economics.

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