Gold Resource Corporation (NYSE American: GORO) today announced it has received written government approval to restart its Oaxaca Mining Unit (OMU) operations in Mexico. After nearly eight weeks of government mandated shutdown, the Company has begun to restart its operations for the gradual ramp up of production while focusing on workforce, contractor and community safety as the global pandemic continues.
Kootenay Silver Inc. (TSXV: KTN) (the "Company" or "Kootenay") is pleased to announce assay results from an additional four holes at the Columba high-grade silver project (the "Property"), located in Chihuahua State, Mexico. These holes are the remaining 4 of 10 holes completed from the 2020 drill program (the "Program") before the COVID-19 work stoppage.
New Pacific Metals Corp. (TSX-V: NUAG) (“New Pacific” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that Silvercorp Metals Inc. (“Silvercorp”) has indicated its intent to participate in the Company’s bought deal financing (the “Offering”), previously announced on May 19, 2020, by purchasing common shares of the Company ("Common Shares") to maintain its pro rata interest of 28.8% of the outstanding Common Shares pursuant to its participation right and further increase its interest by 100,000 Common…
With most mining operations ramping production back-up, preparing to ramp-up, or already operating “normally”, the news-flow has died down considerably in the last week, though given what’s going on the macro-economy, this is unlikely to last for any prolonged period of time. While a major theme for over the next 12-18 months, will be M&A, it could take breather for a while, primarily as result of mining teams unable to complete its due diligence on prospective assets or companies to acquire…
The company more recently acquired the Silverstrike project, which is 450km NW of Silver Sand. The project area covers 19 square km’s. Near surface Ag-Au-Pb-Zn, similar to the type of mineralization in Silver Sand where silver mineralization is related to bleached whitish sandstones. In short, New Pacific is definitely sitting on a mountain or “multiple mountains” of silver, the only real question is how large are these mountains. It is one of the very few junior silver exploration companies…
Mexico has declared mining can resume early (May 18th), 12-days early relative to the date initially stated. This includes countless mining operations by the likes of America’s Gold and Silver, Torex Gold, Equinox Gold, Endeavour Silver, First Majestic Silver, Fortuna Silver, Great Panther, Alamos Gold, Newmont, Pan-American, Fresnillo, Coeur, among many others. This is a good sign as far fewer countries continue to mandate the continued suspension of mining activities. | Companies covered in…
Americas Gold & Silver: Announced a C$25m bought deal offering as it entered into an agreement with a syndicate of underwriters co-led by Cormark Securities and Desjardins Securities. The underwriters have agreed to purchase 8.93m common shares at a price of C$2.80/share for aggregate gross proceeds of C$25m. There is a 15% over-allotment option. Strategic investors led by Pierre Lassonde and Eric Sprott indicated they intend to subscribe for shares totaling C$8.75m.
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Silvercorp Metals: The company may have made a transformational acquisition (bid, that will likely go through) as it announced it entered into a definitive agreement whereby Silvercorp will acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Guyana Goldfields. This will create a diversified mid-tier, multi-metal producer with operations in China and Guyana.
Per the terms of the transaction, each holder of Guyana Goldfields shares will have the option to receive, for each Guyana Goldfields…
There has been a considerable lack of news flow recently as a result of on-going mining suspensions due to COVID-19. This should change over the next couple of weeks as companies report Q1 results. The Mexican Federal Government has extended the mandated shutdown of mining activities by an additional month, through May 30th. At this time, the earliest possible resumption is May 18th in areas where there are no new reported cases of the virus. This will start to have an impact in many silver…
New Pacific Metals: Reported an incredibly robust Inaugural resource estimate for its Silver Sands deposit in Bolivia. I was expecting a maiden resource estimate (MRE) of 225-250m oz. Ag @ 115 g/t Ag but the M&I resource was 156m oz. Ag @ 137 g/t Ag and an additional 36m oz. Ag Inferred @ 112 g/t Ag, or a total resource of 191m oz. Ag @ 132 g/t Ag. This was based on a 90% recovery rate and 45 g/t Ag cutoff. While a bit lower than expected, it is still robust. Furthermore, there is so much more…
