Category: Exploration and Development

Victory Resources Corp. is pleased to announce that it has completed the 2nd and final stage of the drill program at the Altamira tailings pond located at the Reforma mine.

Radius Gold Inc. is pleased to provide an update on recent work completed by Fortuna Silver Mines Inc. on Radius Gold’s Tlacolula Property, Mexico. Fortuna has an option to acquire a 60% interest in the Tlacolula Property by making cash payments and share issuances to Radius, and by completing expenditures totaling US$2 million on the property.

Golden Fame Resources Corp. reports that it has received the results of 15 additional diamond drill holes, totaling 3,972 meters of drilling, from their on-going diamond drill program at the Algun Dia multi-element, epithermal vein prospect located near the city of Guanajuato, in the State of Guanajuato, Mexico.

La minera mexicana Autlán, la mayor productora de ferroaleaciones del país, informó que sus ventas habrían crecido más de un 20% interanual en el segundo trimestre, impulsadas por el precio del manganeso y un tipo de cambio favorable.

Scorpio Mining Corporation today announced an independent updated Mineral Resource estimate for its 100% owned Nuestra Señora Mine in Sinaloa State, Mexico, completed by Mine Development Associates of Reno, Nevada on behalf of Scorpio Mining. The updated National Instrument 43-101 compliant Mineral Resource estimate was commissioned by Scorpio Mining to allow the Corporation to prepare a development model that allows for better planning, scheduling, and budgeting, taking into account the most recent information available to it and recognizing more appropriately the current understanding of the ore body’s spatial complexity. Scorpio Mining has commissioned MDA to prepare a mine plan based on the resource estimate and other criteria in order to present a reserve estimate which is anticipated around the end of the third quarter or early fourth quarter 2012.

AuRico Gold Inc. is pleased to provide an update of drilling results from the El Chanate Mine in Sonora, Mexico. Since April 2010, 213 new drill holes for 28,499 metres of drilling (23 drill holes for 5,052 metres since April 8, 2011) have been completed with the objective of converting inferred resources to measured and indicated, extending the deposit at depth to the south and southeast and to explore for extensions to the west and east of the present open pit. Results to date have delineated thick zones of continuous mineralization throughout the deposit and defined anomalous mineralization both east and south of the existing open pit (refer to Table 1 in the Appendix for selected drilling results).

Endeavour Silver Corp. and AuRico Gold Inc. announce that they have agreed to extend closing of the purchase/sale of the El Cubo mine in Guanajuato State, Mexico and the Guadalupe y Calvo property in Chihuahua State, Mexico to July 13, 2012.

Golden Goliath Resources is pleased to provide an update of developments on their extensive exploration portfolio in the Uruachic Mining District in the Sierra Madre Gold-Silver Belt of northwest Mexico. The Uruachic Mining District hosts the recently discovered Orisyvo deposit, a 9.6 million ounce gold deposit currently being explored and developed by Fresnillo PLC, one of the world’s largest mining companies.

Animas Resources Ltd. is pleased to announce that Sonora State (Mexico) governmental authorities have granted the Company Provisional Restitution of the disputed lands within the Santa Gertrudis mining district. This action in effect gives the Company complete physical control of and access to the disputed properties, and it is considered to be a major advancement towards a favorable, final resolution of the surface land tenure issues in the area.

Soltoro Ltd. recently concluded a ground geophysical survey over the entire El Rayo Project which served to identify a possible structural extension to the gold resource area. To date Soltoro has defined Indicated Mineral Resources of approximately 22,600 ounces of gold and Inferred Mineral Resources containing approximately 18,900 ounces of gold on the northwest end of the El Rayo structure. The most promising area sampled to date is the La Ocotera zone, which is located to the northwest of the El Rayo gold resource and would add approximately 750 metres of prospective structure to be explored. Results of trenching completed to date include intercepts of 4.8 metres of 1.01 g/t gold and 6.5 metres of 0.91 g/t gold in the La Ocotera area. Selected results from trenching and rock sampling were returned as follows: