AuRico Metals Announces Closing of Acquisition of Royalties on Hemlo and Eagle River Mines

AuRico Metals Inc. is pleased to announce the closing of the previously announced acquisition of Mineral Streams Inc., a private company owning a 0.25% NSR royalty on the Williams mine at Barrick Gold Corporation’s Hemlo complex, a 0.5% NSR royalty on Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd.’s Eagle River mine, and a 1.5% NSR royalty on Barrick’s David Bell property, which also forms part of the Hemlo complex.

Minaurum Gold Closes Final Tranche of Private Placement

Minaurum Gold Inc. is pleased to announce that further to its News Release dated June 24, June 29, and August 11, 2015, it has completed a fourth tranche closing on $37,500. With its fourth tranche closed, Minaurum has now raised a total of $2,913,387. A finder’s fee of 25,000 shares was paid in connection with the fourth tranche.

Orex Closes Non-Brokered Private Placement

Orex Minerals Inc. announces that it has closed a non-brokered private placement offering of 1,400,000 common shares of the Company at a price of $0.25 per share for gross proceeds of $350,000. Orex intends to use the net proceeds of the Private Placement for exploration and development of the Sandra Escobar Property located in Durango, Mexico and for general corporate and working capital purposes.

Baja Mining: Access to Boleo Plant Restricted

Baja Mining Corp. has been advised by Minera y Metalúrgica del Boleo, S.A. P.I. de C.V. that access to and from the Boleo site located near Santa Roselia, Baja California Sur, Mexico is being restricted by the local authorities. Senior management of MMB has informed Baja that the Municipality of Mulegé has claimed it is entitled to certain construction permit-related payments from MMB. The restrictions result directly from these claims. Baja and MMB believe that resolution of the legal appeal launched to resolve this matter still remains before the courts and consequently the Municipio has acted without legal authority in imposing restrictions.

Minera Alamos Inc. Initiates Drilling on Historic North Deposit

Minera Alamos Inc. reported today that it has commenced drilling on the North Deposit of its 100% owned Los Verdes project in Sonora Mexico. The Company purchased the North Deposit (formerly Potreritos) in late 2011 from the General Mines Direction of Mexico in order to extend the mine life of the Los Verdes project.

Odyssey Marine Exploration Provides Update for “Don Diego” Phosphate Project and Renegotiates Bank Loan Agreement

Coring and testing completed to date, and calculated on a NI 43-101 compliant basis, verified by expert third parties, have determined that the resource estimate includes 588 million tonnes of phosphate ore with an average in situ P2O5 of 18.1%, comprised of 114.9 million ore tonnes of measured phosphorite, 243.6 million tonnes of indicated phosphorite and 229.9 million tonnes of inferred phosphorite. This is an increase of 19% from the last reported resource estimate of 494 million (measured, indicated, inferred) tonnes of phosphate ore.

Almaden Issues Inaugural CSR Report

Almaden Minerals Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has issued its inaugural report concerning its community-related activities at the Ixtaca project in Puebla State, Mexico. http://www.almadenminerals.com/RESPONSIBILITY/Documents/Almaden_CSR.pdf

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