En 2015, la inversión en exploración de minas en México fue de 552 millones de dólares, lo representó una baja de 31 por ciento comparado con un año antes y la mayor caída entre los países de Latinoamérica.
Información de la Camimex, muestra que en Perú solo bajó 3.2 por ciento la inyección de capital en la búsqueda de nuevos yacimientos, mientras que en Chile (país líder en la producción de cobre) y en Brasil se redujo en 19.3 por ciento, en ambos casos.
VANCOUVER, April 26, 2016 /CNW/ – Kootenay Silver Inc. (TSXV: KTN) (“Kootenay”) and Pan American Silver Corp. (TSX: PAA, NASDAQ: PAAS) (“Pan American”) are pleased to announce that, following the issuance of Kootenay’s common shares as consideration for Kootenay’s acquisition of Northair Silver Inc. (see Kootenay press release dated April 21, 2016) as well as Kootenay’s acquisition of the two and a half percent (2.5%) net smelter returns royalty from Coeur Capital, Inc. with respect to the future production of Kootenay’s La Cigarra project (see Kootenay press release dated March 29, 2016), Pan American has exercised its second tranche option to subscribe for additional common shares of Kootenay in order to maintain a ten percent (10%) ownership interest in Kootenay’s issued and outstanding shares (see Kootenay press release dated February 26, 2016) (the “Second Tranche Option“) in accordance with the Subscription Agreement dated February 15, 2016 entered into between Pan American and Kootenay, as amended (the “Subscription Agreement“). As a result, Pan American intends to subscribe for 6,793,550 additional Kootenay common shares for an aggregate subscription price of CAD$1,553,431 (the “Subscription Price“).
VANCOUVER, April 25, 2016 /PRNewswire/ – GREAT PANTHER SILVER LIMITED (TSX: GPR; NYSE MKT: GPL) (“Great Panther”, the “Company”) has scheduled the release of its first quarter 2016 financial results for Wednesday, May 4, 2016 after market close.
A conference call and webcast will be held on Thursday May 5, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time (8:00 a.m. Pacific Time) to discuss the results. The call will be hosted by Mr. Robert Archer, President and CEO and Mr. Jim Zadra, CFO and Corporate Secretary.
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VANCOUVER, April 21, 2016 /CNW/ – Wealth Minerals Ltd. (the “Company” or “Wealth”) – (TSXV: WML; OTCBB: WMLLF; SSE: WMLCL; Frankfurt: EJZ), is pleased to announce that they have received TSX Venture Exchange acceptance to close the non-brokered private placement announced on April 6, 2016, and the placement closed on April 20, 2016.
On the closing of the placement, the Company issued a total of 4,000,000 common shares at a price of $0.25 per share. All shares issued by the Company will have a four-month hold period in Canada ending on August 21, 2016. A total of $20,650.00 in cash was paid in finder’s fees to Haywood Securities Inc., Canaccord Capital Corporation and Leede Jones Gable Inc.
TORONTO, April 21, 2016 /CNW/ – Sierra Metals Inc. (TSX: SMT) (BVL: SMT) (“Sierra Metals” or “the Company”) reports first quarter production results with record mine throughput in Mexico, offset by lower volumes in Peru a consequence of continued restructuring at the Yauricocha Mine. However, the Yauricocha mine has started to see positive improvement from its restructuring with an increase in production and throughput in Q1 2016 vs Q4 2015.
During the quarter the Company had record silver equivalent production at its Cusi Mine due to higher throughput and better head grades.
Results are from Sierra Metals’ three underground mines in Latin America: the Yauricocha polymetallic Mine in Peru and the Bolivar copper and Cusi silver Mines in Mexico.
TORONTO, April 18, 2016 /CNW/ – Pan American Silver Corp. (“Pan American“) and MacMillan Minerals Inc. (TSX-V:MMX) (“MacMillan“) are pleased to announce that they have entered into an arrangement agreement dated April 18, 2016 (the “Arrangement“) with Maverix Metals Inc. (“Maverix“), which when completed, will launch Maverix as a new publicly traded royalty and streaming company.
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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwired – March 29, 2016) – Fortuna Silver Mines Inc. (NYSE:FSM)(TSX:FVI) announces that it has filed today its 2015 annual report on Form 40-F with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).
The Form 40-F, which includes the company’s fiscal 2015 annual audited financial statements, management’s discussion and analysis and annual information form, is available on Fortuna’s website at www.fortunasilver.com and on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml.
El 74% de las concesiones de exploración minera en México, se encuentra en manos extranjeras. Concretamente, canadienses. Siete grandes compañías dominan el negocio del oro y otros metales. Según el último informe del también canadiense Instituto Fraser, México perdió el atractivo para la inversión minera global en 2015, cayendo 13 puestos hasta el puesto número 37 de 109 países entre los que destacan Chile y Perú en América Latina, que adelantan con el primer y segundo lugar al país azteca.