Category: Investor’s Corner

“Our strategic focus for the last several years has been to lower operating costs and improve productivity at both of our operating mines while transitioning the Galena Complex from silver-copper to silver-lead production,” said Darren Blasutti, President and CEO of Americas Silver Corporation. “We also made substantial capital investments over the last two years, which will allow us to increase our silver-lead resource to a level that should maintain current production rates at Galena for the next 7-9 years. In addition, we had another steady year at the Cosalá Operations and despite falling prices have once again extended the mine life at Neustra Señora. Management will continue to make the changes necessary to respond to the reduction in metal prices.”

Primero Mining Corp. announced today that its Mexican subsidiary, Primero Empresa Minera, S.A. de C.V. has received a legal claim from the Mexican tax authorities, Servicio de Administración Tributaria, seeking to nullify the Advance Pricing Agreement issued by SAT in 2012. The APA confirmed the Company’s basis for paying taxes on realized silver prices for the years 2010 to 2014 and represented SAT’s agreement to accept that basis for those years. The legal claim initiated does not identify any different basis for paying taxes. The Company believes this legal claim is without merit and it intends to vigorously defend the validity of its APA. The Company’s operations continue as usual.

“Santacruz has focused on producing cost-effective ounces in Q4 and will continue to do so in 2016,” stated Arturo Préstamo, CEO of Santacruz. “Our previous initiatives have provided the base from which we can continue to produce cost-effective ounces while at the same time increasing production as the opportunity arises. In the current market environment it is vital to the viability of the Company that we continue to operate in this fashion. In addition we are making significant strides at the Veta Grande Mine and anticipate bolstering our production performance once the Veta Grande milling facility is fully operational.”

Prospero Silver Corp. is pleased to announce that it has entered into a new agreement with Exploraciones del Altiplano, S.A. de C.V., a privately held Mexican Company, in respect of new work programs on the San Luis del Cordero property in Durango State, Mexico. A previous agreement, dated August 29, 2008, contemplated Prospero completing an exploration program exploration at Cordero with staged payments of cash; the issuance of Prospero shares and certain exploration expenditures on the property, leading to Prospero acquiring 100% ownership, subject to a residual 2% NSR royalty for Altiplano. Due to difficult market conditions, Prospero was not able to keep pace with the cash and expenditure requirements of that 2008, and had to rely on informal accommodations from Altiplano in order to retain its interest in the Cordero property…

Oremex Silver Inc. announced today that it has filed an updated National Instrument 43-101 technical report in respect of its Tejamen silver project in Durango, Mexico. The report was prepared by Gustavson Associates, LLC of Lakewood, Colorado and provides and updated resources estimate (as of December 10, 2015) for the project. The Report provides an estimated inferred resource of 19.8 million tonnes containing 28.7 million ounces of silver at 45.0 g/t and 15,700 ounces of gold at 0.025 g/t. The Report will be filed under the Company’s profile on SEDAR at www.SEDAR.com.

Chief Owner, Rob McEwen, stated: “This is wonderful news and it highlights our strong operational performance in 2015, where we increased our gold/silver production, decreased our production cost/oz., generated free cash flow and steadily built our treasury over the year. Also, during the year we declared and paid our first ever semi-annual capital distribution. Our share price appreciation since July, 2015 reflects the value in exercising financial discipline and resisting the temptation to finance at the bottom of the market. We refused to give away our future upside. We have not and will not sell metal streams, sell royalties or hedge our future production. At this time, we are debt free, we have $33 million in cash and bullion. As you can see, we have no pressure on our balance sheet and we will be paying our second capital distribution on February 12th. This is a great way to start 2016.”

Cobre del Mayo, S.A. de C.V. announced that February 9, 2016 is expected to be the settlement date of its previously announced offer to eligible noteholders to exchange any and all of its outstanding approximately $217.2 million aggregate principal amount of 10.75% Senior Notes due 2018….

Almadex Chairman, J. Duane Poliquin commented, “We have an outstanding portfolio of mineral projects and we are pleased to commence drilling on the most advanced, El Cobre. At the same time, we also anticipate defining drill targets on other projects so that we can position ourselves to make the next discovery with our in-house exploration and drilling team.”

Comstock Metals Ltd. is pleased to announce the appointment of Steven H. Goldman to the Board of Directors. Steven H. Goldman is a senior partner in the Toronto law firm of Goldman Hine LLP….

Alset Energy Corp. is pleased to announce that, subject to regulatory approval, it has appointed Gennen McDowall as a director and Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Company. Throughout his career, Mr. McDowall has held senior positions at major mining companies and has been a director of several public mining companies. His experience and network of contacts in the mining and financial sector will be a valuable addition as he helps guide Alset’s Board of Directors.