Silver production was higher in the quarter due to the standout performance from our most important mine, Greens Creek, with higher gold and silver grades and recoveries than the first quarter of 2018, said Phillips S. Baker, Jr., Hecla’s President and CEO. As we indicated with our technical report we expected higher grades at Greens Creek. The Lucky Friday also contributed with more silver production in the quarter than was achieved all of last year. San Sebastian production was about the same as last year’s fourth quarter. Quarterly gold production was higher than last year, but we expect significant production increases from Casa and the Nevada assets in the second half of the year.

Camrova Resources Inc. announces that it has issued 200,000 common shares and 200,000 common share purchase warrants in the second tranche of the previously announced private placement of units of the Company for proceeds of $12,000. This brings the total raised in the first two tranches of the Private Placement to 1,096,667 common shares and 1,096,667 Warrants for total combined proceeds of $65,800. The third and final tranche of the Private Placement is expected to close in early May.

Christian Grijalva, CEO of San Marco, stated, We are excited about the outlook for San Marco in the months ahead. The Company maintains a comfortable working capital balance and relatively tight share structure. This, combined with the Company’s current suite of property assets and extensive in-country intelligence to source possible new acquisitions under reasonable terms, provides the Company numerous avenues to bring growth and value for its shareholders. We look forward to providing additional details as our work progresses.

Goldcorp Inc. and Newmont Goldcorp Corporation today announced the successful conclusion of the transaction combining Newmont Mining Corporation and Goldcorp to form the world’s leading gold business.

Oroco Resource Corp. is pleased to announce that it has closed a non-brokered private placement financing through which the Company has raised proceeds of $800,000 by way of the sale of a total of 3,200,000 units at a price of $0.25 per unit. Each unit consists of one common share and one-half of one common share purchase warrant. Each whole common share purchase warrant will be exercisable into one additional common share for a period of 18 months from closing at a price of $0.40 per share.

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Robert Johansing, CEO of Aura stated, We are very pleased to have Minaurum advance the Taviche project. Minaurum is a regional explorer focused on the exploration and development of high-grade gold and silver projects in Mexico and is led by experienced exploration and management teams. This transaction assures that exploration will continue at the Taviche project allowing Aura to realize value for its investment in the project and to focus on new opportunities.