CGR owns 100% of the right, title and interest in Minera Bestep S.A. de C.V., a private Mexican company. Bestep holds 100% of the right, title and interest in the Pilar Gold Project and the Sun Project. Both properties are near Suaqui Grande, Sonora Mexico and neither properties are subject to any royalties or encumbrances. The Pilar Property is 105 hectares in size and the Sun Property is 110 hectares in size. The Pilar Property has a NI43-101 Report on it.

“The processing of this large industrial scale bulk sample has allowed us to test various reagents, grinding sizes and recovery methods in order to work towards optimizing recoveries of gold, silver, lead and zinc ” states Señor Antonio Berlanga, CEO of the Company, “and although the first shipments of lead and zinc concentrates have produced reasonable cash sales as outlined above, subsequent shipments of lead and zinc concentrates are expected to command even higher sale prices per tonne based upon the assay results obtained in the Andes Mill laboratory as recovery techniques were improved and perfected towards the end of processing the complete 3,500 tonnes industrial scale bulk sample”.

J. Duane Poliquin, Chairman of Almaden commented, “Since the announcement of hole EC-16-10 which discovered high grades beneath previously identified porphyry mineralistion, our drill program has been focused on identifying controls on mineralisation and a vector to a porphyry core. Now a picture is developing from the data received to date. It has been a very eventful year for Almadex and we are now looking forward to carrying out a systematic drill campaign to follow-up these results to the south of the Norte zone and elsewhere on the project in 2017.”

Orex’s President, Gary Cope says, “While the preliminary metallurgical results are not ideal for the Boleras Main Zone, the comparisons between Sandra Escobar geology and that of the neighbouring La Pitarrilla project are encouraging.”

The resource estimate, independently completed by Runge Pincock Minarco Limited (RPM), is reported in accordance with the JORC (2012) reporting guidelines, contains 568,000 tonnes @ 16.9% Zn+Pb and 28.4g/t Ag for 96,000t of contained Zn+Pb metal in both Indicated and Inferred categories. The Mineral Resource comes from the extensions both down dip and down plunge from existing mine development at Level 7 and the 2015 discovery of mineralisation at Tres Amigos. Table A breaks down the resource by area and category.

Sonoro Metals Corp. announces that through its wholly-owned Mexican subsidiary, Minera Mar de Plata, S.A. de C.V., it has entered into an assignment agreement with Agnico Sonora, S.A. de C.V., a subsidiary of Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd., for the sale to Agnico of Sonoro’s Chipriona project in Mexico for $4 million plus a 1% net smelter returns royalty. The NSR may be purchased by Agnico at any time for $1.5 Million.

Minaurum Gold, Inc. is pleased to announce it has identified three new targets along a 2.5km section of the 7.5-km long epithermal vein system located at the La Quintera Silver Project in southern Sonora State. This area contains the La Quintera and Promontorio mines, which are estimated to have produced more than 140 million ounces of silver from 1680 to 1910. Geological mapping and sampling continue in the three target areas, as well as in additional potential targets on parallel zones.