Pete Dougherty, President and CEO stated: “During 2019, we increased our consolidated Mineral Reserves by 48%, GEO production by 13% and grew our net cash position by over $26 million.”

Bradford Cooke, Endeavour CEO, commented, “The Company’s financial performance last year was negatively impacted by significant operating issues and higher costs at each of our mines. We made sweeping changes to the mining operations in Q2 and Q3 and as a result, we are finally seeing production rising and costs falling, led by Guanacevi. Endeavour expects higher production and lower costs at each of its three mines in 2020.”

Excellon President & CEO Brendan Cahill stated: “The acquisition of Otis Gold represents an exceptional opportunity to further Excellon’s vision of creating wealth. We believe that we are at the dawn of a new bull market in precious metals. The Kilgore deposit multiplies our resource base and increases our precious metal exposure from approximately fifty percent to over ninety percent.”

The Company proposes to use the funds from the Loan for construction, development and exploration activities in Nicaragua, for general corporate purposes and for fees and expenses incurred in connection with the Loan.

The Company intends to use the net proceeds of the Private Placement to conduct exploration work on its Tombstone CRD silver-gold-lead-zinc-copper project in Arizona, complete the joint venture agreement for the Cervantes Porphyry gold-copper project in Mexico, and for general working capital purposes.

Taj Singh, President and CEO, states: “2019 was a transformative year for Discovery owing to the acquisition of the Cordero project mid-year. We are very pleased that the work we have done post-acquisition in conjunction with a strengthening silver price has translated to strong market performance culminating in being named to the Venture 50.”

“Ongoing global economic uncertainty negatively impacted commodity prices in the fourth quarter and that has continued into 2020, exacerbated by the effect on markets from the Coronavirus and the impact of severe weather conditions in British Columbia, followed by blockades on rail lines,” said Don Lindsay, President and CEO.

Jonathan George, CEO comments: “We are excited to have closed this first tranche of the private placement, which allows us to secure and finalize our upcoming maiden drill program on our Rebeico project’s New Year zone, where high-grade gold has been encountered.”