Great Panther Silver Ltd. today reports second quarter production at its two wholly-owned Mexican silver mining operations, Guanajuato and Topia.

Evrim Resources Corp. is pleased to announce the appointments of Mr. Mahesh Liyanage CA as Chief Financial Officer and Mr. Jeff Geier, as Senior Geologist.

Defiance Silver Corp. is pleased to announce that it has signed a two-year extension to its option agreement with IMPACT Silver Corp. for the acquisition of the 200 tpd Santa Gabriela processing plant, associated surface rights, and 10 mining concessions in the historic silver mining district of Zacatecas in central Mexico.

Fortuna Silver Mines Inc. today announces production figures from its two operating mines in Latin America, the San Jose mine in Mexico and the Caylloma mine in Peru. In the second quarter of 2013, the company delivered 1,074,007 ounces of silver, 5,183 ounces of gold and significant base metal by-product. Silver and gold production for the first six months of the year totaled 2,066,225 and 9,675 ounces respectively. Silver production was 6 % above budget while gold production was in line with plan (see Fortuna news release dated June 18, 2013). Fortuna is on schedule to produce 4.5 million ounces of silver and 23,600 ounces of gold or 5.9 million ounces of Ag Eq* in 2013.

Second quarter production of 19.3 million pounds of copper in concentrates

Mercator Minerals Ltd is pleased to announce that production for the three months ended June 30, 2013 from its wholly-owned Mineral Park Mine was 22.7 million pounds of copper equivalent*, comprised of 9.9 million pounds of copper in concentrates and cathode copper, 2.8 million pounds of molybdenum and 155.2 thousand ounces of silver.

International Northair Mines Ltd. is pleased to announce that it intends to complete non-brokered private placements for proceeds of approximately C$1,500,000. Coeur Mining Inc. has entered into a letter of intent to purchase 9,600,000 common shares at a price of $0.14 and, in connection with this subscription to cancel all its outstanding warrants to acquire common shares of the Company.

Endeavour Silver Corp. announced today that it set new records for quarterly silver and gold production in the Second Quarter, 2013 from the Company’s three operating silver mines in Mexico, the Guanaceví Mine in Durango State and the Bolañitos and El Cubo Mines in Guanajuato State.