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Selasa, 12 Juli 2022

Media Interview with James Anderson

GSilver's CEO & Chairman, James Anderson, was recently interviewed by BNamericas. The article can be viewed HERE and below and by following this link - https://www.bnamericas.com/en/interviews/why-great-panthers-mexico-mines-make-sense-for-gsilver

 

Why Great Panther's Mines Make Sense for GSilver 
 
Written by Sam Williams, BNamericas
Published Tuesday, July 12, 2022
 
Guanajuato Silver's planned acquisition of Great Panther Mining's Mexican assets will deliver a swift and sharp rise in silver equivalent production for the company, which is seeking mid-tier status in the Mexican silver space.

Vancouver-based Guanajuato Silver (GSilver) aims to restart operations within weeks at the San Ignacio and Valenciana (formerly Guanajuato mine complex) mines, CEO James Anderson tells BNamericas, after the assets were suspended in November due to a lack of tailings capacity, with ore transported to the company's El Cubo facilities for processing.

The transaction, for an upfront consideration of US$14.7mn, will also see the company acquire the operating Topia silver-lead-zinc mine in Durango state, where it plans to deliver operational improvements.

The result will be a jump from 1.8Moz/y silver equivalent production – once El Cubo is ramped up – to 3.4Moz, and potentially up to 6Moz/y, according to Anderson.

BNamericas: What attracted you to the Great Panther Mining assets in Mexico, and what are your plans for them?

Anderson: They can be immediately accretive to our business. The assets that we're buying in Guanajuato were in production until November last year. The only reason they had to be shut down was because Great Panther ran out of tailings processing capacity near their Cata plant. We don't have that constraint. We can start mining at both San Ignacio and Valenciana in, I keep saying, three months, but really I think it's within weeks, and start hauling material to El Cubo, where our plant is.

We run the El Cubo plant at about 30,000-32,000t per month but in 2018 Endeavour Silver was running it at about 55,000t. We can certainly get up to 40,000-42,000t per month and at that moment we can be taking good grade material from San Ignacio, from Valenciana, from Cubo, and not put too much pressure on any of those mines. For this very modest price we're buying three mines and two processing facilities.

The other mine, Topia, in Durango state, it's a little further afield for us. It's a silver-lead-zinc mine. It's been in operation almost continuously since the 1940s, when Industrias PeƱoles had it. It's a great mine.

If you look at the component pieces here, there's two mines and a processing facility in Guanajuato, but they don't have any tailings capacity. Which other mining company would want those assets? For us they make sense. Topia is operating right now, producing a high-grade lead and silver concentrate that they sell to Samsung. Samsung are very desiring to continue purchasing that concentrate. It's never going to be a big mine. Who else would want to buy it? There's only so many different players… it makes sense to GSilver in a way that it doesn't to many other participants.

BNamericas: Is the plan to hang on to Topia?

Anderson: We want to hang onto it for the foreseeable future. It's very remote, up in the mountains, about a seven-hour drive from Durango city. There's a tiny airstrip and a town of about 3,000 people. I think that we can mine and operate it better.

BNamericas: Can you give me an idea of how important the Great Panther deal is for the company?

Anderson: We go from two mines, or really one and a half, with El Cubo and Pinguico where we have been taking material off the surface from an old waste dump, to five mines, from one processing plant to three. There's a dramatic increase in our silver equivalent measured and indicated resources, and we go from 1.8Moz/y silver equivalent production to 3.4Moz/y. That number we feel we can drive into 5-6Moz/y range as early as next year.

BNamericas: You recently reported discovery of high-grade tailings at El Cubo. What are the potential implications of that?

Anderson: There are several potential implications. In the immediate term we continue to do tests to make sure we know exactly the best way to process this material. Depending on the different processes we use we get very different recoveries. Most of the values in that material are in the form of free gold. How do we cost effectively remove the free gold, and hopefully some of the silver, and get us to a target of 60-65% recoveries from this stuff? We're using shaker tables, or more modern equipment, with concentrators. There are a whole bunch of tests we've done and we're really close to coming to a conclusion about which one works best. [We're aiming for] low capex, low opex, and that's going to drive extra revenue. In the medium term, we believe there are going to be other places we can use this new thinking and technology. There's a lot of free gold in these veins in Guanajuato. There are tailings facilities that are 40 years old, or 140, throughout the district and once we get ourselves set up in this revenue stream there could be lots of opportunities. Some of those concessions are at Topia, but most are in the broader Guanajuato area. [With the Great Panther deal] we go from 7,000ha to 18,000ha in the Guanajuato area. The other thing we're doing as we take mineralized material of that tailings area, that immediately frees up tailings capacity that we could use for our ongoing operations.

BNamericas: How is El Cubo performing and how much do you expect to produce there?

Anderson: We're ramping up to 1.8Moz/y. We're not quite there yet. We're at a run rate now of about 1.3-1.4Moz silver equivalent. In 4Q21 we produced about 250,000oz silver equivalent, in Q1 we did 275,000oz. In Q2 I would say we'll be just over 300,000oz. The ramp up is continuing. It's perhaps not quite as steep a ramp-up as we planned but we're producing month-on-month more ounces of silver at lower cost.
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Kamis, 07 Juli 2022

GSilver Increases Debt and Equity Financing Package to US$15.3M



GSilver Increases Debt and Equity Financing Package to US$15.3M

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VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / July 7, 2022 / Guanajuato Silver Company Ltd. (the "Company" or "GSilver") (TSXV:GSVR) announces that due to increased demand, the Company has expanded the size of its previously announced brokered private placement equity financing (the "Financing") through a syndicate of agents including Research Capital Corporation and Canaccord Genuity Corp. as co-lead agents and joint bookrunners (collectively the "Agents") (see GSilver June 29, 2022, news release - GSilver to Acquire 100% of Great Panther's Mexican Mining Assets). The Financing will now consist of a total of up to 40,300,000 subscription receipts (the "Subscription Receipts") at a price of C$0.33 (equivalent to approximately US$0.256) per Subscription Receipt for gross proceeds of up to C$13,299,000 (equivalent to approximately US$10.3 million), subject to the Agents' option to increase the size of the Financing by up to an additional 15% or 6,045,000 Subscription Receipts at any time up to 48 hours prior to closing of the Financing.

The gross proceeds of the Financing, less 50% of the Agents' cash commission, will be deposited in escrow (the "Escrowed Funds") pending satisfaction of certain subscription receipt release conditions (the "SR Conditions") including the concurrent closing of the Company's acquisition of the Mexican mining assets of Great Panther Mining Limited (the "MMR Acquisition") as announced on June 29, 2022 (see "Purchase of Great Panther MMR Mining Assets" below) and the acceptance of the TSX Venture Exchange (the "TSXV").

Upon closing of the MMR Acquisition, each Subscription Receipt will automatically convert, without payment of additional consideration or further action on the part of the holder thereof, into one unit of GSilver consisting of one common share (a "GSilver Share") and one common share purchase warrant (a "GSilver Warrant") of GSilver and the Escrowed Funds (less the balance of the Agent's cash commission and expenses) will be released to the Company. Each GSilver Warrant will be exercisable for one GSilver Share at a price of C$0.50 for a period of 36 months following closing of the MMR Acquisition. If the SR Conditions are not satisfied within 90 days following closing of the Financing (or such other date as the Company and the Agents may agree), the Escrowed Funds and any interest accrued thereon will be returned to the purchasers of Subscription Receipts and the Subscription Receipts will be cancelled.

The net proceeds of the Financing will be used to, among other things, finance the purchase price of the MMR Acquisition, fund ongoing mining operations and for general corporate and working capital purposes.

The Financing is scheduled to close on or about the week of July 21, 2022, or such other date as agreed to by the Company and the Agents.

Purchase of Great Panther MMR Assets:

GSilver has signed a binding definitive agreement with Great Panther Mining Ltd. ("Great Panther") (TSX:GPR) to acquire all of Great Panther's Mexican mining assets through the purchase of Great Panther's Mexican subsidiary, Minera Mexicana Rosario S.A. de C.V. ("MMR"). MMR's combined Mexican assets include three mines, including the currently producing Topia mine in Durango, two floatation processing facilities, and 25,000 hectares of mineral claims. The purchase price for MMR is US$14.7M, of which US$6.7M is payable in GSilver shares and, subject to certain closing adjustments, US$8,000,000 is payable in cash. The Company has also agreed to pay certain contingent bonus payments to Great Panther based on future production of silver from MMR's mining assets and the future price of silver. See GSilver's news release dated June 29, 2022 for further details of the MMR Acquisition. The Company has also agreed to pay, subject to acceptance of the TSXV, an advisory fee to MinVisory Corp. based on the allowable limits of the TSXV in consideration for its services in connection with the MMR Acquisition. MinVisory Corp. is a private consulting company based in Ontario. Closing of the MMR Acquisition is subject to a number of conditions including acceptance of the TSXV.

As announced on June 29, 2022, GSilver has also signed a concentrate pre-payment facility term sheet (the "OP Facility") with Ocean Partners (UK), a metals off-take and trading firm, to provide US$5.0M of financing towards the purchase price for MMR and general corporate and working capital purposes. The OP Facility will be for a term of 24-months, secured by a share pledge over MMR, which holds Great Panther's Mexican mining assets, and repayable over a period of 21-months following a three-month grace period. Interest on the OP Facility will be calculated at 12-month LIBOR + 7.5%. For further details of the OP Facility, please refer to GSilver's news release of June 29, 2022.

All securities issuable in connection with the MMR Acquisition, the Financing and the OP Facility will be subject to a statutory hold period of 4 months and one day from the date of issue. There are no assurances that the MMR Acquisition, the Financing and the OP Facility will be completed on the terms contemplated by the Company or at all.

About Guanajuato Silver Company Ltd.:

GSilver mines and processes silver and gold concentrate from its El Cubo mine and mill. The Company continues to delineate additional silver and gold resources through underground drilling at El Cubo and its nearby El Pinguico project. Both projects are located within 11km of the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, which has an established 480-year mining history.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
"James Anderson"
Chairman and CEO

For further information regarding Guanajuato Silver Company Ltd., please contact:

JJ Jennex, Communications Manager, +1 (604) 723-1433
Email: jjj@gsilver.com
Continue to watch our progress at: www.GSilver.com

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

This new release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any of the securities in the United States. The securities have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "U.S. Securities Act"), or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold within the United States or to or for the account or benefit of a U.S. person (as defined in Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act) unless registered under the U.S. Securities Act and applicable state securities laws or an exemption from such registration is available.

Forward-Looking Information and Statements

This news release contains certain forward-looking statements and information, which relate to future events or future performance including, but not limited to, the acquisition of MMR on the proposed terms and conditions and the estimated timing for closing thereof and the ability of GSilver to raise the necessary funding to complete the MMR acquisition including the Financing and the OP Facility on the terms and conditions and in the amounts currently contemplated. Such forward-looking statements reflect management's current beliefs and are based on assumptions made by and information currently available to the Company. Readers are cautioned that these forward-looking statements are neither promises nor guarantees, and are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause future results to differ materially from those expected including, but not limited to, market conditions, availability of financing, currency rate fluctuations, actual results of exploration, development and production activities, unanticipated geological formations and characteristics, environmental risks, future prices of gold, silver and other metals, operating risks, accidents, labor issues, delays in obtaining governmental or regulatory approvals and permits, and other risks in the mining industry. There are no assurances that GSilver will successfully finance and complete the acquisition of MMR on the terms contemplated or at all. In addition, there is uncertainty about the continued spread of COVID-19, the ongoing war in Ukraine, rising inflation and interest rates (domestically and abroad) and the impact they will have on the Company's operations, supply chains, ability to access the MMR properties, El Cubo and/or El Pinguico or procure equipment, contractors and other personnel or raise capital on a timely basis or at all and economic activity in general. All the forward-looking statements and information made in this news release are qualified by these cautionary statements and those in our continuous disclosure filings available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. The forward-looking statements and information are made as of the date hereof and the Company does not assume any obligation to update or revise them to reflect new events or circumstances save as required by law.

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Selasa, 05 Juli 2022

White Gold Corp. Commences Drill Program at the Betty Property, Yukon

White Gold Corp. Commences Drill Program at the Betty Property, Yukon
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July 5, 2022 - White Gold Corp. (TSX.V: WGO, OTCQX: WHGOF, FRA: 29W) (the "Company") is pleased to announce the commencement of the 2022 drill program at the Betty Ford and Mascot targets on its Betty property. The Betty property is strategically located in the southern part of the Company’s land package, approximately 15 km northeast of Western Copper and Gold Corporation’s (TSX: WRN, NYSE: WRN) Casino porphyry deposit (Measured & Indicated Resources of 14.5 Moz gold & 7.6 Blbs copper and Inferred Resources of 6.6 Moz gold and 3.3 Blbs copper(4)) and 40 km east of Newmont Corporation’s (NYSE: NEM, TSX: NGT) Coffee gold deposit (Measured & Indicated Resources of 2.14 Moz gold and Inferred Resources of 0.23 Moz gold(3)). This drill program forms part of the Company’s 2022 fully funded $6 million exploration program on its extensive and underexplored 350,000 hectare land package in the emerging White Gold District, Yukon, supported by strategic partners Agnico Eagle Mines Limited (TSX: AEM, NYSE: AEM) and Kinross Gold Corporation (TSX: K, NYSE: KGC).

Our 2021 maiden diamond drill program on the Betty Ford target returned one of the best holes drilled in the district, intersecting 3.46 g/t gold over 50m from near surface. We are eager to follow up on this exciting discovery to further test the extents of the broad gold zone encountered. We are also excited to commence a maiden diamond drill program at the Mascot Target that hosts three large gold mineralized zones, which we believe may be indicative of the presence of a broader gold system. Our Betty property is located in close proximity to existing large gold and copper deposits along the same fault structure. We look forward to further advancing this prospective and underexplored property,” stated David D’Onofrio, Chief Executive Officer.

Maps accompanying this news release can be found at https://whitegoldcorp.ca/investors/exploration-highlights/.

Highlights of 2022 Betty Drilling Program Include:
  • Approximately 2,200 m of diamond drilling and 1,650 m of reverse circulation (RC) drilling is planned, focusing primarily on the Betty Ford and Mascot targets (Figure 1).
  • Drilling at the Betty Ford target will test the depth and strike extents of the gold mineralized zone identified in last season’s maiden diamond drilling program which included 3.46 g/t Au over 50 m in hole BETFD21D003 and 1.17 g/t Au over 48.0 m in BETFD21D001.
  • Planned drilling at the Mascot target, located approximately 5 km southeast of Betty Ford, represents maiden diamond drilling on this target. Drilling is focusing on 3 known gold mineralized zones (Page, Boop and Davis), where historical RC drilling encountered significant gold and silver mineralization including 2.62 g/t Au & 107 g/t Ag over 41.1 m in hole BETR12-022 at Page, 29.75 g/t Au over 3.1 m in BETR12-012 and 2.19 g/t Au over 10.7 m including 6.05 g/t Au over 3.1m in BETR12-014 at Boop, and 1.48 g/t Au over 21.3 m in BETR12-007 at Davis. See Prospector Metals Corp. (formerly Ethos Gold Corp.) News Release dated June 26, 2012.
  • Planned RC drilling will also test several additional targets elsewhere on the property including the Betty Black target located directly on the Coffee Creek Fault approximately 5 km west-northwest of Betty Ford and the Betty Grable target which may represent a strike extension of the Betty Ford 1.5 km to the west.
  • A video replay providing a detailed overview of the 2022 exploration program can be found on the Company’s website at: https://whitegoldcorp.ca/media/videos/.

An overview of the planned 2022 Betty drill program, was provided in a Company News Release dated May 18, 2022. To date, the Company has completed the initial phase of diamond drilling at the Ryan’s Surprise and Ulli’s Ridge targets on the White Gold property, with further details provided in a Company News Release dated June 13, 2022. Once the Betty drill program is complete, the diamond drill rig will return to the White Gold property to carry out an additional phase of drilling on Ryan’s Surprise. RAB drilling is planned later in the season to test targets along the Ryan’s Trend, a 6.5 km long NNW gold and arsenic soil geochemical trend located approximately 2km west of the Golden Saddle and Arc deposits which also hosts the Ryan’s Surprise and Ulli’s discoveries. Assay results for all drill programs will be released as they become available and are interpreted by the Company.
Figure 1 - Betty Property 2022 Drilling Program Overview
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About White Gold Corp.

The Company owns a portfolio of 17,584 quartz claims across 30 properties covering approximately 350,000 hectares representing over 40% of the Yukon’s emerging White Gold District. The Company’s flagship White Gold property hosts the Company’s Golden Saddle and Arc deposits which have a mineral resource of 1,139,900 ounces Indicated at 2.28 g/t Au and 402,100 ounces Inferred at 1.39 g/t Au(1). Mineralization on the Golden Saddle and Arc is also known to extend beyond the limits of the current resource estimate. The Company’s recently acquired VG Deposit also hosts an Inferred gold resource of 267,600 ounces at 1.62 g/t Au(2). Regional exploration work has also produced several other new discoveries and prospective targets on the Company’s claim packages which border sizable gold discoveries including the Coffee project owned by Newmont Corporation with Measured and Indicated Resources of 2.17 Moz at 1.46 g/t Au, and Inferred Resources of 0.50 Moz at 1.32 g/t Au(3), and Western Copper and Gold Corporation’s Casino project which has Measured and Indicated Resources of 14.5 Moz Au and 7.6 Blb Cu and Inferred Resources of 6.6 Moz Au and 3.3 Blb Cu(4). For more information visit www.whitegoldcorp.ca.
 
(1) See White Gold Corp. technical report titled “Technical Report for the White Gold Project, Dawson Range, Yukon Canada”, Effective Date May 15, 2020, Report Date July 10, 2020, prepared by Dr. Gilles Arseneau, P.Geo., and Andrew Hamilton, P.Geo., available on SEDAR.
(2) See White Gold Corp. technical report titled “Technical Report for the QV Project, Yukon, Canada”, Effective Date October 15, 2021, Report Date November 15, 2021, available on SEDAR.
(3) See Newmont Corporation news release titled “Newmont Reports 2021 Mineral Reserves of 93 Million Gold Ounces and 65 Million Gold Equivalent Ounces”, dated February 24, 2022: https://www.newmont.com/investors/news-release/default.aspx.
(4) See Western Copper and Gold Corporation technical report titled “Form 43-101F1 Technical Report Preliminary Economic Assessment”, Effective Date June 22, 2021, Report Date August 2, 2021 , prepared by Daniel Roth, PE, P.Eng., Mike Hester, F Aus IMM, John M. Marek, P.E., Laurie M. Tahija, MMSA-QP, Carl Schulze, P.Geo., and Daniel Friedman, P.Eng., available on SEDAR.
 
Qualified Person
Terry Brace, P.Geo. and Vice President of Exploration for the Company is a “qualified person” as defined under National Instrument 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure of Mineral Projects and has reviewed and approved the content of this news release.
 
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward Looking Information
This news release contains "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" (collectively, "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of the applicable Canadian securities legislation. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements and are based on expectations, estimates and projections as at the date of this news release. Any statement that involves discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, assumptions, future events or performance (often but not always using phrases such as "expects", or "does not expect", "is expected", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", "plans", “proposed”, "budget", "scheduled", "forecasts", "estimates", "believes" or "intends" or variations of such words and phrases or stating that certain actions, events or results "may" or "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken to occur or be achieved) are not statements of historical fact and may be forward-looking statements. In this news release, forward-looking statements relate, among other things, the Company’s objectives, goals and exploration activities conducted and proposed to be conducted at the Company’s properties; future growth potential of the Company, including whether any proposed exploration programs at any of the Company’s properties will be successful; exploration results; and future exploration plans and costs and financing availability.
 
These forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions and estimates of management of the Company at the time such statements were made. Actual future results may differ materially as forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to materially differ from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors, among other things, include:
the expected benefits to the Company relating to the exploration conducted and proposed to be conducted at the White Gold properties; the receipt of all applicable regulatory approvals for the Offering; failure to identify any additional mineral resources or significant mineralization; the preliminary nature of metallurgical test results; uncertainties relating to the availability and costs of financing needed in the future, including to fund any exploration programs on the Company’s properties; business integration risks; fluctuations in general macroeconomic conditions; fluctuations in securities markets; fluctuations in spot and forward prices of gold, silver, base metals or certain other commodities; fluctuations in currency markets (such as the Canadian dollar to United States dollar exchange rate); change in national and local government, legislation, taxation, controls, regulations and political or economic developments; risks and hazards associated with the business of mineral exploration, development and mining (including environmental hazards, industrial accidents, unusual or unexpected formations pressures, cave-ins and flooding); inability to obtain adequate insurance to cover risks and hazards; the presence of laws and regulations that may impose restrictions on mining and mineral exploration; employee relations; relationships with and claims by local communities and indigenous populations; availability of increasing costs associated with mining inputs and labour; the speculative nature of mineral exploration and development (including the risks of obtaining necessary licenses, permits and approvals from government authorities); the unlikelihood that properties that are explored are ultimately developed into producing mines; geological factors; actual results of current and future exploration; changes in project parameters as plans continue to be evaluated; soil sampling results being preliminary in nature and are not conclusive evidence of the likelihood of a mineral deposit; title to properties; ongoing uncertainties relating to the COVID-19 pandemic; and those factors described under the heading "Risks Factors" in the Company's annual information form dated July 29, 2020 available on SEDAR. Although the forward-looking statements contained in this news release are based upon what management of the Company believes, or believed at the time, to be reasonable assumptions, the Company cannot assure shareholders that actual results will be consistent with such forward-looking statements, as there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements and information. There can be no assurance that forward-looking information, or the material factors or assumptions used to develop such forward-looking information, will prove to be accurate. The Company does not undertake to release publicly any revisions for updating any voluntary forward-looking statements, except as required by applicable securities law.
 
Neither the TSXV nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSXV) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release.
 
For Further Information, Please Contact:
 
Contact Information:
David D’Onofrio
Chief Executive Officer
White Gold Corp.
(647) 930-1880
 
To Book a Meeting with Management: https://whitegoldcorp.ca/contact/request-information/