Day: July 26, 2018

Equinox Gold Announces Results from Annual and Special Meeting, Including Shareholder Approval of the Solaris Copper Spinout

Equinox Gold will continue to focus on advancing the Aurizona Gold Mine and Castle Mountain Gold Mine to production while Solaris Copper explores and develops the copper projects to unlock the value of the copper portfolio. Solaris Copper will hold a 100% interest in the resource-bearing Warintza copper-molybdenum project in Ecuador, a 60% interest in the La Verde preliminary economic assessment stage copper-silver-gold project in Mexico, a 100% interest in the Ricardo early-stage copper property in Chile, and is continuing to evaluate additional properties that fit the portfolio.

Minera Alamos Expands Santana Gold Project Permits to Accommodate Commercial Scale Operations

“Since the closing of the transaction between Minera Alamos and Corex Gold in April the Company has aggressively advanced the Santana project’s engineering work culminating in our recent submission for these permits. We have received extremely positive community support for our plans and based on currently available information we anticipate the receipt of final approvals later this year.” stated Darren Koningen, CEO. “Construction could begin in Q1 2019 with Santana the first of three planned operations in our development pipeline.”

New Sable Discovery at Margarita Intersecting 462g/t AgEq over 4.25m including 1,092.2g/t AgEq over 1.5m

“We are excited by the grades and widths returned by the first two holes ever drilled in the Margarita Vein”, stated Ruben Padilla, VP Exploration of Sable Resources. “These results clearly demonstrate that we are at the right erosional level with good preservation of the best part of the veins starting right at surface and still open at depth. We will continue the systematic drill test along the 1.6 km of known extension of the Margarita vein and along the other three veins identified within the property limits.”

Excellon Updates Platosa Mineral Resource Estimate

“We have increased tonnage at Platosa despite mining approximately 170,000 tonnes since the last resource estimate as at December 31, 2014,” stated Brendan Cahill, President and CEO. “This new resource estimate is the product of a more conservative and geologically accurate methodology than previously employed at Platosa. We see upside potential on grade and tonnage as we continue to define new mineralization with our underground drilling program.”

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