‘The receipt of this notification represents another major milestone for the Company. Despite the anticipated delays related to the changes in the Mexican government in 2018, this notice was received approximately one year following our permitting application for commercial production at Santana’ stated Darren Koningen, CEO of Minera Alamos. ‘Our highly experienced Mexican technical team continues to demonstrate the ability to concurrently advance our full portfolio of late-stage gold development projects. Mexico remains one of the world’s premier mine development locations with respect to the timeframes required for permitting of new operations. We are excited to advance the Company’s Santana gold project which remains our top priority for construction consideration in 2019.’

Golden Minerals’ President and Chief Executive Officer, Warren Rehn, commented, ‘We are very pleased to announce this transaction, as its consummation will enable Golden Minerals to focus on moving our other existing projects forward, including the newly-acquired Sand Canyon gold-silver project in Nevada, the Yoquivo silver-gold project in Chihuahua State, Mexico, and the El Quevar silver project in Argentina.’

Peter Taylor CEO of Alien commented: ‘The presence of gold at Donovan 2 comes as no surprise given the Minera Frisco El Coronel gold mine is within ten kilometres of the project. With further exploration planned at Los Campos where the project adjoins Endeavour Silver’s El Compas gold mine and at San Celso, the subject of the company’s original AIM listing, Alien is delivering on its strategy of putting money into the ground and increasing confidence in the assets to potential joint venture partners.’

Por mayoría, diputados locales recomendaron a las 18 empresas mineras instaladas en la entidad que cambien sus domicilios fiscales a Zacatecas y destinen un porcentaje de sus cargos directivos a trabajadores y pobladores de la región donde operan.

Millrock President & CEO Gregory Beischer commented: ‘We are pleased to have sold these projects to Riverside. We are bringing greater focus back to Alaska, and Riverside should be able to make good use of the database we have transferred to them. Ultimately we feel confident that Riverside will be able to find funding partners for the projects. If exploration on those projects is successful, Millrock shareholders will benefit from the portfolio of retained royalty interests.’