Category: Exploration and Development

Alamos Gold Inc. reports fourth quarter and full year 2011 operating results. The Company is also providing its 2012 production guidance and operating, development and exploration budgets.

Prospero Silver Corp. is pleased to announce the acquisition (through staking) of an additional 9,771 hectares in the Santa Maria del Oro gold/silver district. The new ground lies to the west, south and east of the historic, high-grade Magistral vein system. With this addition, Prospero holds 16,124 hectares that virtually surround the historic Magistral del Oro mines, records for which indicate historic grades exceeded 15 g/t Au from oxides ores mined through the mid 20th century.

Axiom Gold and Silver Corp. is pleased to announce it has entered into a letter of intent for the acquisition of the Morelos Project located in western Chihuahua State, Mexico.

Goldex Resources Corporation is pleased to announce the signing of a drill contract with ‘Drift de Mexico S.A de C.V’ a subsidiary of ‘Forage Orbit Garant Drilling’ for an initial drill program of up to 4000m on the company’s El Arco project located in the Durango state of Mexico.

SilverCrest Mines Inc. is pleased to announce it has completed its initial resource estimation for its La Joya Property in Durango, Mexico. Inferred Resources within the Phase I area are estimated at 57.9 million tonnes grading 28 gpt silver, 0.18 gpt gold, and 0.21% Cu. Initial resources contain approximately 51.3 million ounces of silver, 333,400 ounces of gold (16.7 million ounce of Ag Eq.) and 270.3 million pounds of copper (33.9 million ounces Ag Eq.) for a total of 101.9 million ounces silver equivalent* (Ag Eq) using a cutoff grade of 15 gpt Ag Eq.

El Tigre Silver Corp. is pleased to review its 2011 exploration program and announce objectives of the 2012 exploration program at its El Tigre silver project, located on El Tigre’s 431 square kilometer concession ownership in Sonora, Mexico.

Serengeti Resources Inc. has received results from a recently completed Induced Polarization survey on its Victoria project, located in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. The survey has identified a strong, 50 to 200 meter wide, 2.2 kilometer long, open-ended, IP chargeability anomaly associated with outcropping gold-silver mineralization, grading up to 2.0 g/t Au, 5.6 g/t Ag over 22 meters.

Almaden Minerals Ltd. is pleased to report results from exploration programs, regional and project specific, carried out by the Company outside of our 100% owned Tuligtic project. In 2011 the Company was primarily focussed on an expanded drill program at the Ixtaca gold-silver zone of the Tuligtic project where 86 holes were drilled for a total of 31,016.64 meters. Despite the focus at Tuligtic the Company continues to prospect for new projects and has also been advancing other projects already in Almaden’s large property portfolio.

VANCOUVER, Jan. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Victory Resources Corp (TSXV: VR) (the “Company”) announces the results of the third hole, RDH 08 in the 2nd stage diamond drilling program of Victory Resources Corp. in their optioned La Reforma property northeast of Choix, Sinaloa State as shown in the table below.

Sonora Resources Corp., a mineral exploration and development Company focused on the acquisition and development of international silver and gold mining properties, is pleased to advise that underground fieldwork is currently underway at the Los Amoles silver project in the State of Sonora.