Category: Exploration and Development

Kootenay Gold Inc. is pleased to announce assay results from an additional 6 drill holes from its 25,000 meter, ongoing, multi-phase, step out drill and resource definition program on its Promontorio Silver Project in Sonora, Mexico.

Astral Mining Corporation is pleased to report the third and final batch of results from drilling at the Los Crestones property, Sinaloa state, Mexico. Highlights from Phase One drilling include previously announced 5m averaging 39.1 g/t gold, 93.3 g/t silver and 2.13% copper from drillhole 11 (see December 12th 2011 news release). Intervals stated represent core length, true widths are not stated as mineralization geometry is not clear at this time.

Silver Bull Resources, Inc. is pleased to announce drill results from the 2011 drill campaign on the “Shallow Silver Zone”.
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Cerro Resources NL is pleased to announce nine additional core hole drill results from the Namiquipa Silver Project, in Chihuahua state, Mexico. Currently 57 holes have been completed for a total of 21,256m of core, with further assays pending.

Paramount Gold and Silver Corp. today reported new assay results from ongoing core drilling at its 100%-owned San Miguel Project in Mexico. The reported drill holes come from the high-grade gold and silver deposits of Don Ese North and La Union.

Argentum Silver Corp. reports that it has commenced the first phase of its drilling program at the 1053-hectare Coyote Property, located in the State of Jalisco, Mexico. Argentum has planned a 2000-metre diamond drill program consisting of nineteen holes ranging in depth from 80 to 130 metres. These holes are targeted to test six of the identified mineralized veins from surface. Argentum can extend this drill program to 3000 metres or more without re-mobilizing the drill crew. This decision will be made based on initial results of the drilling.

Golden Tag Resources Ltd. is pleased to report the results from hole SD-11-46, the final hole of a 10,400 meter, Phase 5 surface exploration program on the San Diego Property, Durango State, Mexico. The property is a 50/50 joint venture between Golden Tag and Golden Minerals Company headquartered in Golden, Colorado.

A dispute over a water pipeline in San José del Progreso, a municipality in the Ocotlán district of the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, turned deadly on Jan. 18 when supporters of Mayor Alberto Mauro Sánchez Muñoz reportedly opened fire on demonstrators. Protesters Bernardo Méndez Vásquez and Abigail Vásquez Sánchez were wounded; Méndez Vásquez died the next day in a hospital in Oaxaca city, the state capital. Both were members of the United Peoples of the Ocotlán Valley Coordinating Committee (COPUVO), which has been engaged in a three-year struggle against the Trinidad silver mine owned by Compañia Minera Cuzcatlan S.A. de C.V., a subsidiary of Vancouver-based Fortuna Silver Mines Inc.

Riverside Resources Inc. is pleased to report that an initial five hole drill program has commenced at the Pedernal Project in Durango, Mexico. The main focus of the program will be the Tablones Norte Vein, where the recent trenching and soil sampling returned encouraging results (News release January 24, 2012). The program also proposes to test the Milpas Vein structure with at least a single drill hole. Drill holes will vary from 200 to 400 metres in depth with angles of -50 degrees to -60 degrees.

Endeavour Silver Corp. announced today that it is forecasting its eighth consecutive year of production growth for 2012. The Company owns and operates two high grade, underground, silver-gold mines in Mexico, the Guanacevi Mine in Durango State and the Guanajuato Mine in Guanajuato State.