Month: January 2022

Endeavour Silver to Acquire the Pitarrilla Project, One of the World’s Largest Undeveloped Silver Projects¹, Leveraging Regional Platform and Operating Expertise in Mexico

“The acquisition of Pitarrilla, one of the world’s largest undeveloped silver projects, accelerates our vision to become a premier senior silver producer,” said Dan Dickson, Endeavour’s Chief Executive Officer. “We now have a tremendous growth pipeline, which in addition to Pitarrilla includes the Terronera and Parral projects, in a country where we have extensive experience and expertise.”

Excellon Drills 2,490 G/T Silver Equivalent Over 2.9 Metres At Platosa

“Drilling at Platosa following up on the 817 Zone has defined vertically-oriented, high-grade mineralization over approximately 30 metres of strike and 30 metres of vertical extent,” stated Jorge Ortega, Vice President Exploration. “The proximity of existing infrastructure should allow access to this zone in the coming months and supplement first and second quarter production.”

Capitan Mining Drills 35.1m of 0.42 g/t AuEq Including 4.6m of 1.1 g/t AuEq and Has Entered into an Agreement to Buyback All Outstanding Royalties at the Penoles Project

Capitan’s CEO, Alberto Orozco, stated: “We are very happy to have completed the purchase of the Peñoles project royalty portfolio from Exploraciones Altiplano. This agreement paves the way for the project to be royalty-free and will benefit all shareholders going forward, as we evaluate the economics of the Capitan Hill oxide-gold deposit.”

Radius Gold Exploration and Corporate Update

“In 2021, Radius took many important steps towards advancing the Company’s assets. Drilling and other exploration work on Radius’s projects in Mexico and Guatemala delivered outstanding results that could prove to be transformational. Our exploration success has advanced our projects significantly and positioned Radius to provide significant return for our shareholders. We look forward to continuing that success in 2022,” Radius’s President and CEO Bruce Smith stated.

U. S. Antimony Corporation Sets Zeolite Sales Records, Continues Company-wide Process Upgrades Program – Provides Operations Update

USAC’s President commented, “The Company’s expertise in the processing and refining of antimony combined with the continuing plant improvements made possible with last year’s financing have had a positive effect on sales and earnings. I also note that the Rotterdam average price for antimony has increased and appears stable at the highest prices in the past 9 years.”

Prime Mining: Noche Buena Deposit Size Expanding at Los Reyes

“The Central Structure is a very significant 2.3 km-long target that contains 3 known deposits at San Miguel West, San Miguel East and Noche Buena, but has only been explored over approximately 50% of its strike length and mostly to a depth of only 625 m above sea level. This is relatively shallow compared to the productive elevation for mineralization as encountered at Guadalupe and Tahonitas-Zapote.”

Riverside Resources Corporate Outlook for 2022

Riverside’s President and CEO, John-Mark Staude, stated: “We are excited by the good targets in Mexico and Canada and the strong team of people including our financing partners as we move ahead for an active first quarter of 2022 and throughout this coming year. Having strong treasury of over $5M with no warrants and no debt, Riverside has an excellent balance sheet as well as an ambitious technical outlook.”

Golden Minerals Company Produces 14,449 oz Gold During 2021, Exceeding Guidance

Warren Rehn, Golden’s President and Chief Executive Officer, commented, “2021 was an exciting and successful year for Golden Minerals, as it marked our progression to junior gold-silver producer from exploration company based on our Rodeo Mine start-up and excellent production record. Exceeding our production guidance for the year is a testament to the success of our very capable mining team through the planning and execution stages of the mine start-up and into full production. We are well positioned to continue our growth strategy in 2022 based on our forecasted continued production from Rodeo and from the possible re-start of our Velardeña mining operation.”

Heliostar Resumes 5,000 Metre Drill Program at Cumaro, Mexico

Heliostar CEO, Charles Funk, commented: “Starting the Cumaro drill program in December last year sets Heliostar up very well for 2022. We start the year in the fortunate position of having both an ongoing drill program on a new discovery in Mexico and a suite of high-grade gold hits across the district at our flagship Unga project in Alaska. Our initial focus in 2022 is the fully funded drill program at Cumaro where we have hit veining as predicted in each of our completed drill holes.”

GoGold Announces Strong Drilling Results at Mololoa in Los Ricos North

“We are very pleased with these results at Mololoa, as we continue our aggressive resource expansion drilling program at Los Ricos North. This is in addition to the initial Mineral Resource Estimate released in December,” said Brad Langille, President and CEO. “We’ve also commenced drilling at the Gran Cabrera zone, which is our newest target for Los Ricos North, where we see an exploration potential that may be similar to the El Favor deposit.”

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