La Delegación de la Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos y Naturales (Semarnat), dio un permiso de seis meses a la Minera Caballo Blanco, SA de CV, para realizar actividades de exploración minera en el lugar conocido como el Socavón La Paila, en Alto Lucero.

United States Antimony Corporation reported major cost reductions at its Mexican antimony smelter. As a result of metallurgical changes, the Company has drastically cut costs and increased production rates. The approximate reductions for fuel costs are 50%, electricity 55%, and reagents 75%. Maintenance and other costs are being evaluated. Extra manpower will be assigned to processing Los Juarez production. The Company expects to see these lower costs impacting the Company’s reported financials beginning in Q3 2017.

J. Duane Poliquin, Chairman of Almadex commented, “Since the Norte Zone discovery we have been carrying out a systematic drill campaign to define this target. While a broad lower grade zone envelopes the high grade mineralisation we have intercepted, it is clear that a discrete high grade gold copper porphyry system may be a target for our drill program, and this hole helps to further define the high grade zone that is emerging from the drill program. In other matters, in response to growing investor interest since our discovery at the Norte Zone, we have chosen to have Almadex’s shares upgraded to the OTCQX from the OTCQB® Venture Market, enabling even greater exposure and accessibility to our expanding U.S. and global shareholder base. Almadex will continue to trade under symbol “AXDDF” on the OTCQX and looks forward to broadening its shareholder base further through the OTCQX platform.”

“We are excited to begin the first systematic drill program in this historic district. Starting with a number of strong targets on the primary veins that historically produced an estimated 200 Moz silver, we especially look forward to drilling what could be virgin high-grade veins in the down-dropped fault blocks running parallel to the primary veins,” stated Darrell Rader, President and CEO. “Our piano-key structural model indicates that these vein targets are exposed at such a high level that the historical miners did not recognize their potential. If our model is correct, we could dramatically expand the district’s mineralized footprint.”

N. Eric Fier, CPG, P.Eng, President and CEO, remarked, “We continue to successfully explore and expand our high-grade footprint at the Las Chispas Property through systematic drilling on multiple veins. A high-grade intercept of 1.9 metres grading 50.56 grams per tonne gold and 5,018.8 gpt silver or 8,803 gpt silver equivalent shows intact bonanza grades in the Giovanni Vein. Our ongoing underground rehabilitation, sampling and drill-testing of the various veins continues to discover unmined areas with grades similar to reported historic production grades estimated at 15 gpt gold and 1,700 gpt silver or 2,875 gpt AgEq*. Although our primary drilling focus has shifted to the larger nearby Babicanora Vein, the Giovanni and William Tell veins continue to show further potential for high-grade mineralization. Given recent new discoveries and the expansion of the high-grade footprint of the district, we are again expanding our Phase II program until the end of 2017.”