Category: Exploration and Development

Goldex Resources Sign Drill Contract for 4000m Drill Program at El Arco

Goldex Resources Corporation is pleased to announce the signing of a drill contract with ‘Drift de Mexico S.A de C.V’ a subsidiary of ‘Forage Orbit Garant Drilling’ for an initial drill program of up to 4000m on the company’s El Arco project located in the Durango state of Mexico.

SilverCrest Announces Initial Resources at La Joya Property; +100 million Ounces Silver Equivalent*

SilverCrest Mines Inc. is pleased to announce it has completed its initial resource estimation for its La Joya Property in Durango, Mexico. Inferred Resources within the Phase I area are estimated at 57.9 million tonnes grading 28 gpt silver, 0.18 gpt gold, and 0.21% Cu. Initial resources contain approximately 51.3 million ounces of silver, 333,400 ounces of gold (16.7 million ounce of Ag Eq.) and 270.3 million pounds of copper (33.9 million ounces Ag Eq.) for a total of 101.9 million ounces silver equivalent* (Ag Eq) using a cutoff grade of 15 gpt Ag Eq.

Serengeti Identifies Large Geophysical, Geochemical Target Associated with Gold-Bearing System at Victoria; Plans Follow up Drilling

Serengeti Resources Inc. has received results from a recently completed Induced Polarization survey on its Victoria project, located in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. The survey has identified a strong, 50 to 200 meter wide, 2.2 kilometer long, open-ended, IP chargeability anomaly associated with outcropping gold-silver mineralization, grading up to 2.0 g/t Au, 5.6 g/t Ag over 22 meters.

Almaden Provides Exploration Update

Almaden Minerals Ltd. is pleased to report results from exploration programs, regional and project specific, carried out by the Company outside of our 100% owned Tuligtic project. In 2011 the Company was primarily focussed on an expanded drill program at the Ixtaca gold-silver zone of the Tuligtic project where 86 holes were drilled for a total of 31,016.64 meters. Despite the focus at Tuligtic the Company continues to prospect for new projects and has also been advancing other projects already in Almaden’s large property portfolio.

Drill Results – Victory Resources Corporation

VANCOUVER, Jan. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Victory Resources Corp (TSXV: VR) (the “Company”) announces the results of the third hole, RDH 08 in the 2nd stage diamond drilling program of Victory Resources Corp. in their optioned La Reforma property northeast of Choix, Sinaloa State as shown in the table below.

Esperanza Reports New Cerro Jumil Drill Results

Drill Hole RCHE-11-220 intersected two separate intervals with 22.5 meters containing 2.5 grams of gold per tonne and 30 meters containing 1.1 grams of gold per tonne.

Drill Hole RCHE-11-221 intersected two separate intervals with 10.5 meters containing 1.7 grams gold per tonne and 18 meters containing 1.0.

Drill Hole RCHE-11-222 intersected 40.5 meters containing 1.6 grams gold per tonne.

US Gold Provides El Gallo Complex Construction & Exploration Update

Key developments for Phase 1 construction and exploration results include:

– Construction of Phase 1 remains on time and budget and is scheduled to be completed by mid-2012. Phase 1 production is expected to average 30,000 ounces of gold per year. Phase 2, for which a feasibility study is being completed, is expected to contribute an additional 5 million ounces of silver and 5,000-10,000 ounces of gold per year.

– The mining fleet for Phase 1 has arrived and pre-stripping of the open pit mine began on December 9th and will continue during the first half of the year. Stockpiling of ore is expected to begin in the coming weeks. Ore is expected to be delivered to the heap leach pad by mid-2012.

– Engineering for the crushing, process plant and heap leach facilities has been completed. Pre-existing equipment has been disassembled and removed from site. The new crushing and process plant is expected to be completed by May-2012. (A photo library showing bi-weekly progress can be viewed by clicking here).

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