Day: February 3, 2016

Primero Mining Corp. announced today that its Mexican subsidiary, Primero Empresa Minera, S.A. de C.V. has received a legal claim from the Mexican tax authorities, Servicio de Administración Tributaria, seeking to nullify the Advance Pricing Agreement issued by SAT in 2012. The APA confirmed the Company’s basis for paying taxes on realized silver prices for the years 2010 to 2014 and represented SAT’s agreement to accept that basis for those years. The legal claim initiated does not identify any different basis for paying taxes. The Company believes this legal claim is without merit and it intends to vigorously defend the validity of its APA. The Company’s operations continue as usual.

“Santacruz has focused on producing cost-effective ounces in Q4 and will continue to do so in 2016,” stated Arturo Préstamo, CEO of Santacruz. “Our previous initiatives have provided the base from which we can continue to produce cost-effective ounces while at the same time increasing production as the opportunity arises. In the current market environment it is vital to the viability of the Company that we continue to operate in this fashion. In addition we are making significant strides at the Veta Grande Mine and anticipate bolstering our production performance once the Veta Grande milling facility is fully operational.”

Prospero Silver Corp. is pleased to announce that it has entered into a new agreement with Exploraciones del Altiplano, S.A. de C.V., a privately held Mexican Company, in respect of new work programs on the San Luis del Cordero property in Durango State, Mexico. A previous agreement, dated August 29, 2008, contemplated Prospero completing an exploration program exploration at Cordero with staged payments of cash; the issuance of Prospero shares and certain exploration expenditures on the property, leading to Prospero acquiring 100% ownership, subject to a residual 2% NSR royalty for Altiplano. Due to difficult market conditions, Prospero was not able to keep pace with the cash and expenditure requirements of that 2008, and had to rely on informal accommodations from Altiplano in order to retain its interest in the Cordero property…