Kootenay Silver Inc. is pleased to announce a Non-Brokered private placement of up to 7.35 million units at a purchase price of $0.34 per Unit, for aggregate gross proceeds to Kootenay of up to $2,500,000.

AuRico Gold announced a Quarterly dividend on Thursday, May 15th, Analyst Ratings News reports. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, June 3rd will be paid a dividend of 0.02 per share on Tuesday, June 3rd. This represents a dividend yield of 1.85%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, May 15th.

Primero Mining Corp. announced today it has completed the repurchase of $1.9 million of its $50.0 million convertible senior unsecured debentures due March 31, 2016. This represents 3.8% of the outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Debentures, pursuant to its offer to repurchase the Debentures announced on April 4, 2014. The repurchased Debentures have been cancelled and $48.1 million remain outstanding.

Arian Silver Corporation, a silver exploration, development and production company with a focus on projects in the silver belt of Zacatecas, Mexico, announces today the release of its Management’s Discussion and Analysis and unaudited Financial Statements for the three months ended 31 March 2014.

Baja Mining Corp. reports that it has filed its unaudited condensed interim consolidated financial statements for the quarter ended March 31, 2014, and the related management’s discussion and analysis.

Gold Resource major shareholder Mining Plc Hochschild unloaded 2,250,000 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, May 14th. The stock was sold at an average price of $3.92, for a total transaction of $8,820,000.00. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link. Large shareholders that own 10% or more of a company’s shares are required to disclose their transactions with the SEC.

Lincoln Mining Corporation announces that, further to the Company’s news release dated May 2, 2014; it will proceed with a share consolidation of its issued and outstanding common shares. The Company’s name and trading symbol will remain unchanged.

Defiance Silver Corp. announces that it has arranged to settle an aggregate of $281,294 of outstanding debt owing to certain directors, officers and consultants by paying $82,108 in cash and issuing an aggregate of 1,991,920 common shares at a deemed price of $0.10 per common share.