Westridge Resources Continues to Identify Additional Epithermal Veins at its Charay Project, Mexico

Westridge Resources Inc. announces that the cumulative strike length of all mineralized vein structures on the Charay Property is now approximately 4,000 meters compared to 250 meters when the project was acquired. This has been accomplished through ongoing interpretation of the results of drilling, geological mapping, trenching and sampling, all of which continues to identify new epithermal veins.

MacMillan Has Commenced Drilling On The La Raizura Target at The Las Cucharas Gold And Silver Project

Mr. Thomas Skimming, CEO of MacMillan Minerals Inc., is pleased to announce that the Company has commenced a diamond drilling program on the La Raizura Target at the Las Cucharas Gold and Silver Project. Mr. William Hamilton, P. Geo., Manager of Exploration, is a Qualified Person under the meaning of National Instrument 43-101 and is responsible for all technical information contained in this news release.

Catanava Plant in Startup Test Mode

Excalibur Resources Ltd. is pleased to provide an update on the progress towards production in its 49% subsidiary, Minera Catanava S.A. de C.V. The land use environmental permit received in November 2011 allowed the construction and installation of the plant. The ball mill, jaw and cone crushers and ore bins were installed in December. The conveyors, belts and motors were delivered, installed and tested in January-March and all are operational. In April, 100 tons of dump material was loaded into the raw ore storage bin and 50 tons was crushed to 1/4 inch material into the fine ore hopper that is being batch tested on the three recently installed Action Mining Micron Wave tables. The material is being tested by increasing the size of the batches in order to optimize the flow, the grind and the gold recoveries. Various adjustments have been made including installing feeders for the wave tables and a holding tank.

Aura Silver Announces Appointment of Vice President of Exploration and New Board Member

Aura Silver Resources Inc. is pleased to announce that Mr. Alain Vachon has accepted the position of Vice President Exploration of Aura Silver. In addition, Mr. Nick Tintor has accepted an appointment to the Board as an independent Director. Alain replaces Mr. Eric Craigie who has retired from his management position but who will remain with the Board as a Director.

Chesapeake Gold Corp.: New Positive Scoping Changes Delays Metates Pre-Feasibility Study Into Q3

Chesapeake Gold Corp. wishes to report on the current status of the pre-feasibility study of its 100% owned Metates project located in Durango State, Mexico. One of the largest undeveloped gold-silver projects in the Americas, Metates contains a NI43-101 measured and indicated resource of 1.18 billion tonnes at a grade of 0.50 g/t gold and 13.7 g/t silver containing 19.0 million ounces gold and 519 million ounces silver together with 4.2 billion pounds of zinc (see NR2-2012 dated February 16, 2012).

Aurcana Reports: Record 1st Quarter Results

Aurcana Corporation is pleased to report its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2012. The summary of the selected financial information should be read in conjunction with the Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited) and the related Management Discussion and Analysis for the quarter ended March 31, 2012 dated May 24, 2012 together referred to as the “Financial Statements”, which have been filed on SEDAR (www.sedar.com) and the Company’s website (http://www.aurcana.com). All figures are in US dollars unless otherwise noted.

Mexico promises to protect Huichol Indian lands

Mexico’s government says it will protect a half-million acres held sacred by the Huichol Indian tribe that inspired a protest movement against a Canadian company’s silver-mining concessions in the northern desert.

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