Category: Exploration and Development

El Tigre Silver Commences Gold Hill Drilling Program

El Tigre Silver Corp. is pleased to report that its 2012 core drilling program at its El Tigre silver project has started on schedule. The El Tigre silver project is located on concessions that are part of the Company’s 431 square kilometer concession ownership in Sonora, Mexico.

SilverCrest Reports 58m @ 164.7 gpt Ag Eq(i) at La Joya; Extends Main Mineralized Trend 500 Metres NW

SilverCrest Mines Inc. is pleased to announce the results of the first six holes of 18 Phase II core holes (approx. 8,000 metres) completed to date at its La Joya Property in Durango, Mexico. Phase II contemplates a total of 80 holes (approx. 15,000 metres) and drilling to date has extended the Main Mineralized Trend an additional 500 meters to the northwest from the current resource area.

Serengeti Begins Drilling Program on Three Gold-Silver Properties in Mexico

Serengeti Resources Inc. is pleased to announce that its Mexican subsidiary Cia. Minera FB Integral SA de CV, has begun a drilling program that will test high priority gold-silver targets on three properties located in Southern Chihuahua State, Mexico. A total of 3000 to 4000 meters of reverse circulation (RC) drilling will be completed in approximately 25 holes. Drilling has been initiated at the Victoria property where a large scale sediment-hosted gold target has been identified. The drill will then proceed to the Cuates property where a number of locally high grade gold-silver veins and structures have been identified and finally move to the Dorado property, where one to two holes will test a large scale geochemical response.

Goldgroup y el oro veracruzano

Hace casi dos años, la minera canadiense Goldgroup vendió al Grupo Carso —Frisco— un proyecto de extracción de oro en la región conocida como “El Porvenir” en Aguascalientes. El grupo canadiense aseguró que los 25 millones de dólares de aquella operación con Carlos Slim se utilizarían para fortalecer otro proyecto en Veracruz, también de extracción de oro.

Cangold Commences Metallurgical Program for Ixhuatan Gold-Silver Project

Cangold Limited is pleased to announce that it has commenced a metallurgical testing program for the Ixhuatan Gold-Silver Project in Chiapas, Mexico. Cangold is earning a 75% interest in the Ixhuatan project through its own wholly-owned Mexican subsidiary, Coboro Minerales de Mexico, S.A. de C.V.

Drilling to Start at Mexivada’s AuroTellurio Property in Mexico

Mexivada Mining Corp. is pleased to announce that its optionee partner California Gold Corp. is scheduling an April 2012 start-up for an exploration drilling program at the Company’s AuroTellurio Project, located in the La Bambolla gold-tellurium mine area near Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico, northeast of Hermosillo. Six core holes are planned to be drilled by California Gold as part of this initial program involving a total of 3,000 meters of diamond drilling. Geologic work, supplemented by two geophysical surveys, has delineated three initial drilling targets within the AuroTellurio property.

Minaurum Drills 1,375 g/t Silver, 1.1% Copper, 3.6% Lead and 9.6% Zinc over 0.5m at Capilla Silver Project

Minaurum Gold Inc. is pleased to announce drill results from its recently completed Phase One, 1,403 metre drilling program on the 100%-owned Capilla project in Sinaloa state, Mexico. Seven holes were drilled along a 1.2 km-long trend of parallel veins and stockwork quartz veining. Hole CA-11-02 intersected a five metre wide vein averaging 140 g/t (4 oz/T) Silver; 0.08 g/t Gold; 0.4% Lead and 1% Zinc. This intercept includes a 0.5m wide high grade zone of 1,375g/t (40 oz/T) Silver; 0.6 g/t Gold; 1.1% Copper; 3.6% Lead and 9.6% Zinc. Holes CA-11-01, 11-02, and 12-07 also intersected two additional veins. They also report significant values. The remaining four holes were drilled along strike to the south and at lower elevations, and report only anomalous values.

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