Almost four years after the price of gold began tumbling, cash-starved and debt-ridden miners are selling, merging or closing shop, pushing the value of completed gold mining mergers and acquisitions in the first five months of this year to $3bn, twice that in the same period last year, according to Thomson Reuters GFMS, a metals research consultancy.

McEwen Mining Inc. is pleased to announce that production at the El Gallo Mine has exceeded our guidance for the second quarter. With approximately 15,600 gold equivalent ounces produced so far in Q2, this marks the third consecutive quarter of record production at the El Gallo Mine. Our production in Q1 this year totaled 15,391 gold equivalent ounces with year-to-date production of approximately 31,000 gold equivalent ounces.

Torex Gold Resources Inc. announces the results of its 2015 annual and special meeting of shareholders held in Toronto, Ontario on June 23, 2015.

MAG Silver Corp. announced today that at its annual general and special meeting held on June 22, 2015, MAG’s shareholders approved by majority to: set the board at eight, elect all eight directors standing for election, re-appoint Deloitte LLP as the Company’s auditor, and approve certain amendments to Company’s Deferred Share Unit Plan.

PREMIER GOLD MINES LIMITED is pleased to announce that it has completed the final $5 million tranche of its previously announced non-brokered private placement of common shares at a price of $2.35 per Offered Share. The aggregate gross proceeds of the private placement totaled approximately $27.1 million from the sale of 11,544,969 Offered Shares.

Marlin Gold Mining Ltd. announces that Mr. John Brownlie has resigned from Marlin’s board of directors. The Company’s board of directors is now comprised of Messrs. Akiba Leisman, Mike Liddell, Jesse Munoz and John Pontius.

DynaResource, Inc., a minerals investment, management, and exploration company based in Irving, Texas, with a current focus on the San Jose de Gracia high grade gold project in northern Sinaloa State, Mexico, is pleased to announce that it has closed a non-brokered direct private placement in the amount of $2.5 M USD, with one executive in the Denver, CO. area. The GN Transaction was subscribed, closed and funded on June 17, 2015. A summary of the GN Transaction is described below:

BACANORA MINERALS LTD., the Canadian and London listed lithium and borates development company focused on Mexico, announces that it has received the resignation of Guy Walker as a director of the Company, which has been accepted by the Board of Directors of the Company with immediate effect.