Arian Silver Corporation, a silver exploration, development and production company focussed on silver projects in the silver belt of Zacatecas, Mexico, is pleased to report that it has successfully purchased the 2% Net Smelter Return royalty on its wholly owned San José project.

Con la consigna de “Sin la vida, las obras sobran”, pobladores de Ixtacamaxtitlán se apersonaron al Primer Informe de Labores del edil Eleazar Hernández Arroyo para exigir que cumpla el compromiso que firmó en su campaña de rechazar la apertura de una mina para la extracción de oro y plata y negar los permisos de cambio de uso de suelo a la empresa Almaden Minerals.

Torex Gold Resources Inc. reports that they have received information that 12 community members, from the vicinity of their construction project, have gone missing from the public highway to Cocula, in the State of Guerrero, and from the public waterways. The whereabouts of these community members is unknown at this time. One of the 12 missing community members works for the company as a labourer and was off duty at the time he went missing. Three others work for contractors to the project. Our thoughts are with the individuals and their families, and our site team is providing support through this difficult time for the community.

“Minera y Metallurgica del Boleo, or MMB, in which KORES holds 90 percent stake, obtained the first production from its copper mining process plant in Santa Rosalia, Mexico, on Jan. 17,’’ the company said in its statement. “We expect MMB to produce 24,000 tons of copper this year.”

Timmins Gold Corp. is pleased to announce that its 2014 drill program has identified potential satellite deposits on the North Trend located approximately 2-8 km north of the Company’s San Francisco Mine, located in northern Sonora, Mexico. During 2014 Timmins Gold completed a drill program of approximately 25,000 meters in a combination of core, reverse circulation and rotary air blast drilling on the North Trend, a cluster of high priority targets to the north of the San Francisco Mine identified by previous prospecting and exploration.

El día de hoy los directivos de Scorpio Mining se reunieron con empleados en sus operaciones de Cosalá para anunciar los planes de reducir su plantilla en Sinaloa, México. Esta es una muy difícil pero necesaria decisión pues ha quedado claro que las operaciones de Cosalá no son redituables con la fuerza laboral que actualmente opera debido a la continuidad de los bajos precios de la plata y los metales base. Desafortunadamente, lo anterior significa que tenemos que prescindir de aproximadamente 90 puestos los cuales representan alrededor del 24% de la fuerza laboral. Los cambios estarán distribuidos en todos los departamentos y se harán efectivos inmediatamente.