Highvista Gold Inc. Provides Further Update on Change of Business and Sale of Mining Assets

By mutual agreement with the prospective purchaser, the Corporation has put an end to the previously announced negotiations to sell all of its interests in its Mexican mining exploration assets to Minerales y Yacimientos Mexicanos Sacreamento S.A de CV. The Corporation will seek to maximize the value of these assets through other transactions or potential operating relationships or partnerships that it intends to develop prior to the completion of its RTO, as further described below.

Southern Silver Intersects 14.8m Grading 39.4g/t Ag, 0.1% Pb, and 10.2% Zn (410g/t AgEq; 11.6% ZnEq) at Cerro Las Minitas; Second Drill Mobilized to Property

“The recent set of drill results has yielded further improvement in potential size, quality and scope of the Cerro Las Minitas project,” said Lawrence Page, Southern Silver’s President. “Our focus will remain to establish this rapidly evolving district into one of the most significant economic polymetallic discoveries in our industry.”

Geologix Announces Tepal Preliminary Economic Assessment: US$169M After-Tax NPV (5%) and 24% IRR Using US$1,250/oz. Gold Price and US$2.50/lb Copper Price With US$214M Initial Capex

“Achieving this milestone is a critical first step toward rewarding the long-term dedication and perseverance of all of our key stakeholders,” said Kiran Patankar, Geologix’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “During a challenging multi-year period for junior miners following the completion of a Pre-Feasibility Study on Tepal in 2013, our Board of Directors made a prudent decision to curtail spending and minimize shareholder dilution, while stepping in to provide the Company with interim funding to keep the Project in a clean and unencumbered condition until resource capital markets improved. When metals prices stabilized and reversed direction in 2016, the Company enhanced its management team, completed a modest private placement, and commenced an extensive review of Tepal. We look forward to resuming project development based on these promising results.”

Endeavour Silver Updates Reserves and Resources for Operating Mines

Bradford Cooke, CEO of Endeavour, stated, “The dip in reserves and resources at our three operating mines was a result of our reduced capital and exploration spending last year. Now that metal prices are recovering, we have resumed our investments to find and develop new reserves and resources. Our exploration efforts at the development projects last year were successful in identifying new mineralization, so we anticipate Terronera and El Compas should add to our total resources to be released in March.”

Mexus Gold Issues Santa Elena update

Mexus Gold US released an update on its Santa Elena mine. MarMar Holdings Inc., the mine operator at the Santa Elena, is currently loading ore on the heap leach pad. As previously stated, the equipment currently on site is insufficient to meet the scale of the project. The time and associated costs of using this equipment is prohibitive in the long run. MarMar is moving a larger crusher to the site that once installed will speed the loading process. Installation of this larger crusher will allow the company to optimize and maximize its daily output of ore and lead to much faster completion of the first lift. The cyanide leaching system will be placed on this first lift when done.

San Marco Discovers Copper, Gold, Moly Porphyry System

Robert Willis, San Marco’s President and CEO noted “we consider our Target #1068 as “proof of concept” for the highly time and cost efficient targeting JV we created with GlobeTrotters. Our crews have partially mapped in a classic porphyry alteration system of substantial size. Most surface exposures are high-level lithocap, which generally doesn’t display anomalous geochemistry. However, we have been able to find scattered exposure in arroyos where erosion has exposed underlying rock units and mineralization. All the sampling done at these exposures has reported anomalous to highly anomalous copper and gold values. We view Target #1068 as a legitimate new porphyry discovery and look forward to rapidly advancing it. We have scores of other targets in the region to investigate and rank and that work will be carried on simultaneously”.

Almaden Drills Further New High Grade Mineralisation Within and Outside Amended PEA Pit, Hits 105.00 Meters of 1.20 g/t Gold, 87.1 g/t Silver and 38.60 Meters of 1.08 g/t Gold and 106.2 g/t Silver

J.D. Poliquin, chairman of Almaden stated, “Today’s results once again show the presence of the high grade veins on the Tuligtic project. While we are now focussed on developing the Ixtaca deposit into a significant precious metals producer in Mexico, and are currently busy with engineering work and studies towards producing a PFS, this exploration drilling demonstrates additional resource potential both laterally and, because we are at the top of a fully preserved epithermal system, future exploration drilling will also test for feeder veins beneath the Ixtaca sheeted vein zone.”

Oceanus Commences Trading in the US on the OTCQB and Appoints New Director

Oceanus Resources Corporation (OCN.V) and (OCNSF) is pleased to announce that its common shares recently commenced trading on the OTCQB, a US interdealer quotation system, under the symbol OCNSF. Real-Time Quote Display Service for OCNSF is available at: http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/OCNSF/quote. The Company’s common shares will also continue to trade on the TSX Venture Exchange under its trading symbol OCN.

Canasil Completes First Drill Hole, Begins Second Hole at the La Esperanza Project in Durango and Zacatecas States, Mexico

Canasil Resources Inc. announces that the Company has completed the first hole, ES-16-12, of the 2016-17 core drilling program at the La Esperanza silver-lead-zinc project in Durango and Zacatecas States, Mexico. The hole was drilled to a downhole depth of 394.5 metres. This hole intersected an extended interval from 345 metres to 391 metres down hole, carrying banded quartz veins, veinlets and breccias hosted within fractured and brecciated volcanic rocks. Base metal sulphides including sphalerite, galena, and chalcopyrite have been noted. The core is being logged and prepared for assaying to determine base metal and possible silver content.

Sierra Metals Reports 2016 Production Results and Announces 2017 Production and Cost Guidance

“At the Bolivar Mine in Mexico, the Company saw a significant increase in throughput but was hindered by lower grades which led to a minor reduction in copper equivalent production when compared to Q4 2015. The Company will focus on continuing to increase production volume while improving the value per tonne of ore mined at Bolivar in 2017. At Cusi, poor weather and significant rainfall caused flooding in ramps which led to stope unavailability resulting in lower production, however we will continue to seek improvement at Cusi with better grade control and selective mining practices,” Mark Brennan, President and CEO of Sierra Metals.

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