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By Miguel A Heredia

During the 15^th week of the year (April 7^th to April 13^th 2025), at least 30 press releases were announced by companies working in Mexico, with eleven communicating production results, seven disclosing deals and corporate issues, six reporting resources and developments of their properties, three announcing financial rounds, one commenting on Mexican issues, and one informing on exploration results.  ON MEXICO ISSUES, Mithril and Angel Wing reported the best drilling intercepts in Mexico on the second week of April, 2025. ON EXPLORATION, In Nayarit, Angel Wing releases results from the initial 13-hole (1,400m) diamond drill program at its La Reyna project. ON MINING, Capstone announced that it will release its Q1, 2025 results on May 1, 2025 (Cozamine mine, Zacatecas).  Gold Resource declared that it will host a year end 2024 conference call on Wednesday, April 9, 2025. Pan American announced that it will report Q1, 2025 unaudited results on Wednesday May 7, 2025 (La Colorada mine, Zacatecas-Durango). Teck announced that it will release Q1, 2025 Q1, 2025 results on April 24, 2025 (San Nicolas mine, Zacatecas). Aura Minerals reported Q1, 2025 production at its Aranzazu mine, Zacatecas. Endeavour Silver announced Q1, 2025 production results from its Mexican mine operations. First Majestic released Q1, 2025 production results. DynaResource reported Q4 and year-end 2024 production and financial results from its San Jose de Gracia mine in Sinaloa. GoGold announced production results for the quarter ending March 31, 2025 from its Parral tailings property in Chihuahua. Torex reported Q1, 2025 production results from its Mexican operation mines in Guerrero. Gold Resource announced full year 2024 production and financial results for its Don David Gold Mine in Oaxaca.  ON FINANCING, Endeavour closed its bought deal financing for aggregate gross proceeds of USD $45M (San Sebastian mine, Jalisco). Pantera Silver closed a non-brokered private placement for aggregate gross proceeds of CAD $1.65M (Nuevo Taxco project, Guerrero). US Antimony secured a $5M line of credit with Truist bank (Los Juarez project, Queretaro).  ON RESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT, Altius announced that Orogen recently reported an initial resource estimate for the newly discovered Navidad Vein at the Ermitaño mine, Sonora. DynaResource released metallurgical test work results from its san Jose de Gracia mine, Sinaloa. Tocvan announced the commencement of its next phase of 1,500m RC drilling at Pilar project, Sonora. Mithril reported high-grade channel results and drill results from its Copalquin project in Durango. Orogen announced mineral resource and reserve update on its producing Ermitaño royalty in Sonora, including inferred resource for the Navidad Vein. Heliostar reported drill results for its La Colorada mine, Sonora. ON DEALS AND CORPORATE ISSUES, Xali announced the appointment of its new exploration manager (El Oro project, State of Mexico). Defiance Silver entered into a non-binding letter of intent with Green Earth Metals Inc., a private held company holding a portfolio of assets in Mexico. Bear Creek announced closing of debt amendments (Mercedes mine, Sonora).  Sierra Metals reiterated recommendations to take no action as Alpayana amends hostile bid (Bolivar mine, Chihuahua). Plata Latina completed the sale of the 3% NSR on the Naranjillo project, Guanajuato for a total of USD $6M.  ON SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, First Majestic released its 2024 sustainability report

ON MEXICO ISSUES

• Heliostar Metals Ltd., and Angel Wing Metals reported the best drilling intercepts in Mexico on the second week of April 2025, 2025. Details are shown in the table below:

ON EXPLORATION

• Angel Wing Metal Inc., releases results from the initial 13-hole (1,400m) diamond drill program at its La Reyna project, Nayarit. Five widely spaced targets were drill-tested: El Polo, Dolorosa North, Dolorosa South, Celeste, and Zorrillo. Drilling highlights at El Polo target area include holes LR-25-005 with 1.6 g/t Au, 30 g/t Ag, 216 ppm Cu, 657 ppm Pb, and 463 ppm Zn over 8.20m, including 2.07 g/t Au, 39 g/t Ag, 246 ppm Cu, 718 ppm Pb, and 472 ppm Zn over 7.1m, including 3.75 g/t Au, 70 g/t Ag, 475 ppm Cu, 1,065 ppm Pb, and 560 ppm Zn over 3.75m; and hole LR-25-013 with 1.01 g/t Au, 60 g/t Ag, 429 ppm Cu, 1,384 ppm Pb, 1,965 ppm Zn over 6.80m, including 1.82 g/t Au, 11 g/t Ag, 86 ppm Cu, 982 ppm Pb, and 492 ppm Zn over 1.45m, including 2.09 g/t Au, 234 g/t Ag, 1,045 ppm Cu, 2,630 ppm Pb, and 4,990 ppm Zn over 1.40m. Drilling highlights at Dolorosa South includes holes LR-25-001 with 1.52 g/t Au, 12 g/t Ag, 802 ppm Cu, 818 ppm Pb, and 133 ppm Zn over 7.75m, including 1.2 g/t Au, 13 g/t Ag, 325 ppm Cu, 890 ppm Pb, and 156 ppm Zn over 3m, including 2.1 g/t Au, 12 g/t Ag, 1,136 ppm Cu, 487 ppm Pb, and 96 ppm Zn over 3m, including 2.14 g/t Au, 21 g/t Ag, 416 ppm Cu, 1,155 ppm Pb, and 185 ppm Zn over 1.50m, including 3.89 g/t Au, 16 g/t Ag, 1,020 ppm Cu, 20 ppm Pb, and 88 ppm Zn over 1m; hole LR-25-011 with 1.46 g/t Au, 1 g/t Ag, 447 ppm Cu, 38 ppm Pb, and 86 ppm Zn over 1.5m; and hole LR-21-012 with 3.59 g/t Au, 10 g/t Ag, 1,071 ppm Cu,

ON MINING

• Capstone Copper Corp., announced that it will release its Q1, 2025 results on May 1, 2025 (Cozamine mine, Zacatecas).
• Teck Resources Limited announced that it will release Q1, 2025 Q1, 2025 results on April 24, 2025 (San Nicolas mine, Zacatecas).
• Aura Minerals Inc., reported Q1, 2025 production at its Aranzazu mine, Zacatecas. The company produced 20,456 Oz AuEq.
• Endeavour Silver Corp., announced Q1, 2025 production results from its Mexican mine operations. Table below shows figures by mine:

• First Majestic Silver Corp., released Q1, 2025 production results from its four producing underground Mexican mines. Mine by mine production details are shown in the next table:

• DynaResource Inc., reported Q4 and year-end 2024 production and financial results from its San Jose de Gracia mine in Sinaloa (all currency amounts are expressed in US dollars). During Q4, 2024, Dyna mined 59,940 tonnes and milled 67,670 tonnes of 4.12 g/t Au with a metallurgical recovery of 75.58% to produce 6,775 Oz Au. The company sold 6,897 Oz Au. During 2024 full year, the company mined 233,782 tonnes and milled 256,676 tonnes of 4.07 g/t Au with a metallurgical recovery of 76.24% to produce 25,677 Oz Au. The company sold 22,003 Oz Au. Dyna also reported for Q4, 2024 revenue of $14.8M and a net income of $0.1M, while for the full year 2024 it reported revenue of $46.5M and a net income of $8M.
• GoGold Resources Inc., announced production results for the quarter ending March 31, 2025 from its Parral tailings property in Chihuahua. The company produced 210.3K Oz Ag, 3.3K Oz Au, 351.7K Lb Zn, and 262.1K Lb Cu (555.5K Oz AgEq).
• Torex Gold Resources Inc., reported Q1, 2025 production results from its Mexican operation mines in Guerrero. Figures of the production results are shown in the table below:

The company is on track to achieve annual payable guidance of 400K-450K Oz AuEq.

• Gold Resource Corporation announced full year 2024 production and financial results for its Don David Gold Mine in Oaxaca. The company produced and sold a total of 18.6K Oz AuEq comprising of 8,598 Oz Au and 817.3K Oz Ag sold at an average price of USD $2,354 and USD $28.75 respectively. Gold Resource reported USD 41.6M cash and cash equivalent as at December 31, 2025; working capital of USD $2.1M; and cash and AISC of USD 42,330 and USD $2,939 per Oz AuEq sold.

ON FINANCING

• Endeavour Silver Corp., closed its bought deal financing for the issuance of 11,600,000 common shares at a price of USD $3.88 per common share for aggregate gross proceeds of USD $45M (San Sebastian mine, Jalisco).
• Pantera Silver Corp., closed a non-brokered private placement financing by issuing a total of 6,600,000 units at a price of CAD$0.25 per unit for aggregate gross proceeds of CAD $1.65M (Nuevo Taxco project, Guerrero).
• US Antimony Corporation secured a $5M line of credit with Truist bank. There are no immediate plans to utilize any borrowing under this new line of credit. The company only intends to utilize this credit facility as needed to support strategic growth initiatives, primarily associated with antimony inventory building (Los Juarez project, Queretaro).

ON RESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT

• Altius Minerals Corporation announced that Orogen Royalties Inc., recently reported an initial resource estimate for the newly discovered Navidad Vein at the Ermitaño mine, Sonora.
• DynaResource Inc., released metallurgical test work results from its San Jose de Gracia mine, Sinaloa, as part of the preparation of an SK 1300 technical report. “The metallurgical test work results from three fresh rock composite samples from the active exploration areas of San Pablo, San Pablo Sur, and La Mochomera show excellent recovery > 95% in all samples using gravity followed by flotation (using standard industry reagents). Additionally, gravity gold recoveries reached up to 33.8%, confirming that the gold mineralization is amenable to conventional gravity gold processing methods such as Falcon concentrators”. 
• Tocvan Ventures Corps., announced the commencement of its next phase of 1,500m RC drilling at Pilar project, Sonora. Drilling will focus on the 100% controlled expansion area where recent scout drilling returned significant mineralization.
• Mithril Silver and Gold Limited reported high-grade channel results and drill results from its Copalquin project in Durango. Channel sampling highlights at Las Brujas working area includes 21.5 g/t gold and 337 g/t silver over 1m; 7.71 g/t Au and 170 g/t Ag over 1m; 3.7 g/t Au and 67 g/t Ag over 3m; 8.8 g/t Au and 74 g/t Ag over 2m; 7.85 g/t Au and 128 g/t Ag over 2m; 28.7 g/t Au and 356 g/t Ag over 1m; 15.3 g/t Au and 127 g/t Ag over 1m; 21.8 g/t Au and 156 g/t Ag over 1m; and 4.77 g/t Au and 94 g/t Ag over 1m. Channel sampling highlights at El Peru working area includes 5.66 g/t Au and 155 g/t Ag over 9.5m; 26.8 g/t Au and 1,004 g/t Ag over 2m; and 31.8 g/t Au and 233 g/t Ag over 1m. Mithril also reported the results of the drill hole MTH-LS25-20 at the Target 1, which intersected 9.06 g/t Au and 11 g/t Ag over 2.90m, including 44.7 g/t Au and 43 g/t Ag over 0.5m.
• Orogen Royalties Inc., announced mineral resource and reserve update on its producing Ermitaño royalty in Sonora, including inferred resource for the Navidad Vein. Ermitaño reserves and resources as of Dec 31, 2024 are shown in the next table:

The company also reported Initial inferred resources for the Navidad vein system of 2.3M tonnes consisting of 5.9M Oz Ag and 249K Oz Au at grades of 81 g/t and 3.42 g/t respectively.

• Heliostar Metals Ltd., reported drill results for its La Colorada mine, Sonora. Drilling highlights can be seen in the next table:

ON DEALS AND CORPORATE ISSUES

• Xali Gold Corporation announced the appointment of its new exploration manager (El Oro project, State of Mexico).
• Defiance Silver Corp., entered into a non-binding letter of intent (LOI) with Green Earth Metals Inc. (GEMS), a private held company holding a portfolio of assets in Mexico. Defiance proposes to acquire all issued and outstanding shares of GEMS in a strategic transaction. GEMS holds rights to three-drill permitted copper-gold-silver molybdenum projects in Mexico´s Sonora desert porphyry copper belt, covering a total of 6,795.22 hectares. The GEMS assets comprise the Victoria, Espiritu, and Los Ocotes project areas “Under the terms of the LOI, Defiance proposes to issue common shares to GEMS shareholders in exchange for all of the issued and outstanding common shares of GEMS, based on an exchange ratio of 1 Defiance Share for every 4.52 GEMS Shares. In total, Defiance proposes to issue 4,954,613 Defiance Shares of Defiance at a price of CAD $0.255 per share, for a total purchase price of CAD $1,250,000 (excluding the Convertible Debenture Financing)”. Upon the closing of the transaction, GEMS will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Defiance. In connection with the transaction, Defiance has also agreed to invest in GEMS through an unsecured convertible debenture for a total amount of CAD $150K. The convertible debenture will bear simple interest at 8.0% per annum and will mature two years from the closing of the convertible debenture financing.
• Bear Creek Mining Corporation announced that it closed the amending agreements with each of Equinox Gold Corporation and Sandstorm Gold Ltd. Bear Creek will temporarily defer monthly interest payments on their existing debt obligations from February 2025 to November 2025, with all deferred interest due by December 31, 2025. The company anticipates issuing a new secured promissory note to Sandstorm in 2025 for up to USD $6.5M to support working capital, pending approval from the TSX Venture Exchange.
• Sierra Metals Inc., reiterated recommendations to take no action as Alpayana amends hostile bid. The Board asserted that the bid, recently amended to offer CAD $1.1 per share, still undervalues the company. None of the directors or officers intend to tender their shares. The board emphasizes its successful operational improvements and advises shareholders not to act on the hostile bid, which it deems opportunistic and a poor reflection of the company's true value (Bolivar mine, Chihuahua).
• Plata Latina Minerals Corporation completed the sale of the 3% NSR on the Naranjillo project, Guanajuato for a total of USD $6M to a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fresnillo plc. The company retains a 2% NSR with Fortuna Mining Corp. on the La Joya project, which is located in the state of Hidalgo.
• Vizsla Royalties Corp., adopted a new omnibus equity incentive compensation plan to replace the existing stock option plan, effective April 1, 2025. As part of this plan, the company has granted 2,800,000 performance share units (PSUs) to its officers, directors, employees, and consultants, which will vest after one year based on specific performance targets. If these targets are met, each vested PSU can be exchanged for one common share or settled in cash at the discretion of the Board. Approval from the TSX Venture Exchange and disinterested shareholders will be sought at the company's upcoming annual general meeting in Q3 2025 (Panuco project, Sinaloa).

ON SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

• First Majestic Silver Corp., released its 2024 sustainability report. The report highlights significant achievements, including record safety performance with a 48% reduction in Total Recordable Incident Frequency Rate (TRIFR) and a 70% reduction in Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR). The company also reported a 33% reduction in carbon footprint per tonne of ore processed and invested over USD $1.2M in community projects, resulting in a notable decrease in community complaints.

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On the picture above, Cu mineralization in a sericitic-altered intrusive rock in an IOCG project in Sonora, Mexico. Miguel A Heredia in the photo.