Tag: Exploration and Development

Brad Langille, President and CEO of GoGold stated, “We are very pleased to complete this Transaction with Agnico. We believe GoGold shareholders are well positioned to benefit from the future potential of Santa Gertrudis through our retained royalty. After this Transaction GoGold will be debt free with a strong cash balance which positions the Company well as the Parral Tailings project ramps up to its full production potential, while also allowing us to continue to pursue further opportunities.”

“Exploration success continues at San Sebastian with the discovery of additional high-grade mineralization that has the potential to extend the mine life. When we restarted San Sebastian we had less than a two-year mine plan and now we see potential through 2020 and beyond. As well, new zones are emerging along both the Middle and Francine veins with similar mineralogy as the Hugh Zone, a 1.5 million ton polymetallic resource, so we see the underground sulphide deposit potentially growing to further extend mine life,” said Phillips S. Baker, Jr., President and CEO. “At Casa Berardi, the exploration confirms our view of the exploration potential we believed was possible when we acquired the property. The surface program is expanding the open pits and the underground is identifying new lenses with good grades. Finally, drilling at Greens Creek has discovered high-grade mineralization high up in the mine which could enhance Greens Creek’s already exceptional mine economics.”

Bacanora CEO Peter Secker said, “Securing access and surface rights for the large and scalable Sonora Project represents another major milestone towards delivering on our objective to develop a world class lithium mining operation at Sonora. Today’s news closely follows the recent Sonora Government Environmental Approval for the Sonora Lithium Project.”

Riverside Resources Inc. is pleased to announce an update of the exploration work being done at the Glor Gold Project in Sonora, Mexico. Positive results obtained by Riverside’s summer program of geological mapping and rock sampling (up to 14.4 g/t Au) have encouraged partner, Centerra Gold Inc. to work up additional geophysical and extensive soil geochemistry surveys designed to focus the selection of drill targets in the central part of the Project. Centerra has been funding exploration at Glor since August, 2016, having entered into an option agreement with Riverside to earn a 70% interest in the Project.

Prospero Silver Corp is pleased to provide an update on planned drilling of the 430 hectare Bermudez project in northwest Chihuahua close to the border with Sonora in northern Mexico. The Company is planning to drill test Bermudez as part of its on-going 6,950 m reconnaissance drill campaign funded by strategic partner Fortuna Silver Mines Inc.

J.D. Poliquin, chairman of Almaden stated, “These results again show the continuity of the Ixtaca Zone gold silver mineralisation. We are focussed on developing the Ixtaca deposit into a significant precious metals producer in Mexico, and engineering work and studies on a Feasibility Study are progressing well. We are at the top of a fully preserved epithermal system and over the next several months exploration drilling will also test for additional vein zones beneath alteration elsewhere on the project.”

The Company is pleased to announce that it has now received the preliminary report from the 2017 work program on its 100% owned San Timoteo property, located in Chihuahua, Mexico. The program was carried out by a very experienced, independent consulting geologist with intimate knowledge of the property. The program was an expansion of the work conducted in 2016, but with a focus on structural geology and mineralization. It was designed to strengthen and increase the number of drill targets to be tested in the next major drilling program that will include surface and underground drilling to test targets property wide.

“We are excited to begin the first systematic drill program testing the Veta Grande vein east of San Acacio. Our geological model indicates that with the Veta Grande tilting to the south east, historic miners did not recognize the potential of the vein along strike. If our model is correct, we could dramatically expand the district’s silver footprint. With two diamond drills operating, we look forward to a steady flow of drill results over the next three months.” stated Roy Bonnell, President and CEO of Defiance Silver Corp.

Auxico Resources Canada Inc. is pleased to announce encouraging metallurgical results from a 2.095 kg sample (2,095 g) taken from the volcanic breccia hostrock material in the footwall of the Campanillas Mine, which is located in the north-east corner of the Zamora Property. The sample contains 1.98 kg/t of silver (1,980 g/t) and 2.01 g/t of gold. This sample was treated by the Centre for Mineral Technology and Plastics in Thetford Mines in order to optimize the metallurgical extraction of both gold and silver. The recovery of gold was 71.60% and 92.9% for silver, as a result of processing this material by gravity and flotation methods.

“The first gold sold from the Santana property is not only validation of Chester Millar and our technical team’s belief in the open-pit heap-leach amenable Santana property but also the culmination of years of effort from those that preceded him and originally identified the prospectivity of the area. We look forward to completing the ongoing bulk testing and optimization studies and using future gold concentrate production to reconcile the larger scale potential of the core Nicho zones,” stated Doug Ramshaw, President and CEO.