Alliance Mining Corp. is pleased to announce that it has signed a binding Letter of Intent with a private Canadian company to acquire 22 mineral claims totaling nearly 50 square kilometres (4,872 hectares) primarily in the Uruachic district of northwestern Mexico. The land package puts Alliance in the heart of a prolific gold exploration area and includes the closest privately held claims, within four kilometres, to Fresnillo PLC’s important Orisyvo discovery (www.fresnilloplc.com). Fresnillo is the second-largest gold producer in Mexico and the world’s largest primary silver producer.

Paramount Gold and Silver Corp. today announced it has received final confirmation from CONAGUA, a division of SERMANAT, Mexico’s Environmental and Natural Resources Ministry, granting Paramount permanent rights to 995,000 cubic meters of water per year for its San Miguel Project, equivalent to 31.6 liters per second. Paramount conducted pumping tests to determine that this extraction rate would not affect phreatic levels in the surrounding area.

Avino Silver and Gold Mines Ltd. is pleased to provide the following update of activities at its San Gonzalo Mine 80 km North East of Durango, Mexico.

Victory Resources Corp. is pleased to provide an update on the current drill program on the La Reforma property as well as metallurgical testing of bulk samples from the Matanza and the Altamira tailings ponds.

La denuncia repercute en México a través del diario Reforma: grupos de narcotraficantes gestionan la explotación de minas de carbón en e l estado de Coahuila con el apoyo de tres empresas que los ayudan a lavar dinero. Casualmente en estos días las tres empresas mineras más grandes de México (una de ellas propiedad de Carlos Slim) anunciaron inversiones multimillonarias en el sector.