Day: June 19, 2017

Riverside’s President and CEO, John-Mark Staude, stated: “Given the trench sampling intervals gave disseminated gold values in the range of 0.5-1 g/t Au at the Pitaya Target, we are surprised that this initial drill campaign didn’t manage to replicate these results. We’ve been mapping and sampling the larger Glor tenement finding numerous areas with gold and remain positive on the Project’s potential. So far we’ve developed five target areas and have only trenched and drilled one. The four additional target areas will be field sampled and worked on in the coming months to determine if another drill program will be pursued.”

“We are encouraged by the continuation of mineralization to the southeast of our mine workings, with the Plateros vein locally exhibiting very high grades, particularly in gold,” stated Robert Archer, President & CEO.  “The results of our exploration drilling have given us sufficient confidence to commence drifting in that direction to further evaluate and delineate these zones from underground.”

“This is a very exciting development for Santacruz,” stated President and CEO Arturo Prestamo. “Not only does the San Rafael vein potentially provide a new source of feed for our Rosario mill facility, at some of the highest grades that the Company has ever assayed in the area, but there are three other areas on the Rosario property where similar E-W post mineralized structures have been identified, but have never been systematically evaluated. The NW-SE veins have been the predominant focus of most historic exploration but with the discovery of the San Rafael vein, Santacruz will broaden its exploration focus to evaluate the E-W structures on both the Rosario and Membrillo veins.”