Southern Silver Exploration Corp. plans to issue up to 15,000,000 units in a non-brokered private placement at a price of $0.05 per Unit to raise $750,000. Each Unit will consist of one common share and one share purchase warrant, with each warrant exercisable to purchase one additional common share for a period of three years at an exercise price of $0.10 per share.

Pan American Goldfields Ltd. acknowledges its receipt of Mr. Emilio Alvarez’s recent Delaware lawsuit which seeks to force the Company to hold an immediate Annual Meeting of Shareholders. The Company is disappointed and confused by Mr. Alvarez’s actions. Mr. Alvarez is a partner of Mr. Bruno Le Barber, a director of the Company. Messrs. LeBarber and Alvarez were both notified in writing on October 25, 2012 (more than two months prior to the filing of the Delaware lawsuit) of the Company’s intention to hold an Annual Meeting in June 2013 following the filing of its Annual Report on Form 10-K for its fiscal year ending February 28, 2013. The Company has formally selected June 28, 2013 as the date of its Annual Meeting, and will petition the Delaware court to allow the Company to hold the Annual Meeting on this date.

San Marco Resources Inc. has received the preliminary results of a petrographic study completed on a large 1 meter x 2.5 meter panel sample taken from the old Tompiate underground workings (100 meters below surface) on the Angeles property in Sonora State, Mexico.

Aurizon Mines Ltd. acknowledges the announcement made on January 14, 2013 by Alamos Gold Incorporated of its commencement of an unsolicited bid for all of the issued and outstanding shares of Aurizon that it currently does not own.