Category: Exploration and Development

Endeavour Silver Corp. and AuRico Gold Inc. are pleased to announce that they have completed the acquisition by Endeavour of 100% interests in AuRico Gold’s El Cubo silver-gold mine in Guanajuato State, Mexico and the Guadalupe y Calvo silver-gold exploration project in Chihuahua State, Mexico. Total consideration paid at closing by Endeavour was US$200 million comprised of US$100 million in cash and US$100 million in Endeavour common shares (11,037,528 shares). AuRico will also be entitled to receive up to an additional US$50 million in cash payments from Endeavour conditional on the occurrence of certain events during the next three years. Endeavour will provide more details on its plans for El Cubo and Guadalupe y Calvo next week.

Almaden Minerals Ltd. is pleased to announce further results from the on-going four drill exploration program on the Company’s 100% owned Tuligtic project, Mexico with hole TU-12-145 drilled into the Ixtaca North Zone, a developing parallel zone to the Main Ixtaca Zone. The intercept in hole TU-12-145 includes high grades and expands the known extent of Ixtaca North Zone. Highlights from hole TU-12-145 include the following intercepts (a more complete list of intercepts is shown in the table below):

Sierra Madre Developments and its partner, Riverside Resources Inc. are pleased to announce additional drill results from the 2012 drill program at the El Capitan Target (a near surface, shallow dipping, oxide gold deposit), which forms part of the Company’s Peñoles Project in Durango, Mexico. Drilling in 2011 (18 holes) indicated potentially economic grade mineralization over significant widths (30 to 110 meters) and good continuity of the mineralized zone over a strike length of approximately 700 meters (referred to as the Main zone – see press release dated October 24, 2011). The El Capitan Zone is exposed in the side of a low ridge and most of the 2011 program consisted of inclined holes drilled from the top of the ridge at an azimuth of 030 degrees (perpendicular to the strike of El Capitan). The current program consists of an additional 20 holes (funded by Sierra Madre) designed to test the down dip extent of mineralization and provide sufficient drill hole density for an initial resource calculation.

A pesar que desde mayo la empresa Frisco ejecuta trabajos tendientes a explotar yacimientos de oro y plata en la región de Tetela de Ocampo, apenas hace 13 días solicitó a la Secretaría del Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (Semarnat) el Procedimiento de Evaluación de Impacto Ambiental para el proyecto de exploración de la minera Espejeras.

Victory Resources Corp. is pleased to announce that it has completed the acquisition of the El Boleo property from Minera Copper Canyon S.A. de C.V. a private Mexican corporation. The transaction will allow the Company to acquire up to a 100% interest in El Boleo which is located adjacent to the historic Reforma Mine, the Santo Tomas Copper-Gold deposit, and in close proximity to the Bahuerachi Copper Deposit.

IMPACT Silver Corp. is pleased to announce high grade gold and silver values from the 2012 drill program at the Carlos Pacheco Gold-Silver Project. The project is located in the Valle de Oro area, six kilometers southwest of IMPACT’s operating mill at Zacualpan, central Mexico. Fieldwork in the Carlos Pacheco area began in 2007 with a systematic mapping and rock sampling program followed by an initial drill program that cut high grade gold intersections of up to 19.6 grams per tonne (g/t) gold across 2.9 meters (m) including 49.7 g/t gold across 1.0 m (see IMPACT News Releases dated January 18, 2007 and December 4, 2008).

Catalyst Copper Corp. advised that an initial draft of the Preliminary Economic Assessment on the La Verde copper porphyry deposit located in Michoacán State, Mexico initiated in early May 2012 by AMC Mining Consultants Ltd. of Vancouver was delivered to management at the end of June. Management and its financial advisors, Endeavour Financial Limited (of both Vancouver and London), have now completed their review and provided comments to AMC. Subject to final review, it is expected that report will be publicly released later this month.

Soltoro Ltd. and Argentum Silver Corp. are pleased to announce assay results from 10 additional diamond drill holes recently completed on the La Florida and La Colorada veins at the Coyote silver gold property, located in Jalisco State, Mexico. These 10 drill holes represent the balance of a first phase 26 hole orientation drill program completed by Argentum Silver at Coyote.

Urastar Gold Corp. is pleased to announce that it has entered into a contract for 1500m of core drilling in three (3) 500m holes at its flagship El Antimonio Property. Urastar also plans to complete the previously announced 10,000m reverse circulation drilling program at El Antimonio. To date, over 6700m has been drilled in 31 RC holes at El Antimonio. Results have been announced up to hole 24 and have returned several wide gold bearing intercepts including those summarized in the table below.

Con el objetivo de “reconocer y evaluar los yacimientos de minerales (plata y Oro)”, la empresa Minera Espejeras, S.A. de C.V., subsidiaria de Minera FRISCO, propiedad de Carlos Slim, presentó finalmente ante la SEMARNAT el pasado 29 de junio un estudio para la autorización de impacto ambiental para el proyecto de exploración minera en Tetela de Ocampo.