Day: June 10, 2013

Esperanza Resources Corp. announced that the Company has received notification from the Mexican federal permitting authority, Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recurso Naturales that the Company’s initial environmental permit application (known by the Spanish acronym, “MIA”) in respect of the Company’s Esperanza gold project has not received approval. The Company has the right, as provided by SEMARNAT in the notification, to resubmit a revised MIA taking into account comments disclosed in the notification.

Riverside Resources Inc. and its partner, Sierra Madre Developments Inc. are pleased to provide new trench and drill results from the Jesus Maria Mine area at the Peñoles Project in Durango, Mexico. Highlighted results included Trench 11, which returned 15.4 metres (m) averaging 420.8 g/t silver (including a 2 m interval that assayed 2,152.2 g/t silver), and diamond drill hole JM DDH 13-06, which returned 11.85 m averaging 320.3 g/t silver including a 0.9 m interval that assayed 3,409.1 g/t silver. Diamond drill hole JM DDH 13-07 intersected a 2.1 m interval that returned 279.5 g/t silver and a 4.0 m interval that returned 532.9 g/t silver. The highlighted results are from a series of four new trenches and eight shallow drill holes that were completed during the most recent campaign to test the new exploration area east of the old workings along the Jesus Maria vein system.

Mexus Gold US is a company engaged in the evaluation, acquisition, exploration, development and production of mining properties and conducts salvage operations for the recovery of precious metals.