Solitario Zinc is pleased to announce that it has sold, through its wholly owned subsidiary Minera Solitario Perú S.A.C., its non-producing Yanacocha royalty to Minera Los Tapados for approximately US$501,500 in cash. The Yanacocha royalty covered 43 concessions totaling 36,052 hectares. Newmont owns the underlying mineral concessions and [...]
Solitario Zinc is pleased to announce that Solitario, through its 100%-owned subsidiary Zazu Metals and Teck American have approved a jointly funded budget for a new work program on the Lik zinc project in Alaska. This is the first time that project work has been jointly funded, as previously, Zazu Metals, acquired by Solitario in July 2017, had [...]
Solitario Zinc is pleased to announce the planned 2018 work program, additional property acquisitions and newly defined exploration opportunities on its Florida Canyon Zinc Project in Peru. Florida Canyon is held in a joint venture between Solitario and Nexa Resources. Highlights of the planned 2018 work program include completion of the access [...]
Solitario Zinc Corp. (“Solitario;” NYSE American: XPL; TSX: SLR) is pleased to announce that is has initiated metallurgical testing to determine the potential to recover silver at its recently acquired Lik zinc project in Alaska. The Lik resource, besides being a high-grade zinc deposit, contains a significant silver inventory that [...]
Solitario Zinc Corp. (“Solitario;” NYSE American: XPL; TSX: SLR) is pleased to announce results from its Preliminary Economic Assessment (“PEA”) for its high-grade Florida Canyon Zinc Project, formerly called the Bongará Zinc Project. The project is a joint venture between Solitario and Compañía Minera [...]
Solitario Exploration & Royalty and Zazu Metals are pleased to announce that Solitario has completed its acquisition of Zazu Metals pursuant to the plan of arrangement previously announced on April 27, 2017. The Arrangement was approved by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on July 7, 2017, after overwhelming approval by both Solitario and Zazu [...]
Solitario Exploration & Royalty and Zazu Metals are pleased to announce that shareholders of the respective companies have voted overwhelmingly in favor of the previously announced plan of arrangement. The combination is expected to create an exciting new zinc-focused company with two advanced high-grade zinc projects located in favorable [...]
Solitario Exploration & Royalty Corp. (NYSE MKT:XPL; TSX:SLR) ("Solitario") is encouraging Solitario shareholders to vote at its upcoming annual meeting of shareholders (the “Annual Meeting”) electronically, by mail or in person. The Annual Meeting will be held on June 29, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. at the offices of Solitario at 4251 Kipling [...]
Solitario Exploration & Royalty and Zazu Metals are pleased to announce that they have entered into a definitive arrangement agreement pursuant to which Solitario has agreed to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Zazu by way of a statutory plan of arrangement under the Canada Business Corporations Act. Highlights of the [...]
Solitario Exploration & Royalty Corp. (“Solitario;” NYSE MKT: XPL; TSX: SLR) is pleased to announce that its joint venture partner, Minera Milpo (“Milpo”), has elected to participate in the development and funding of a Preliminary Economic Assessment (“PEA”) on the Bongará high-grade zinc deposit in [...]
Solitario Exploration & Royalty Corp. (“Solitario;” NYSE MKT: XPL; TSX: SLR) is pleased to announce that it has engaged SRK Consulting to complete a Preliminary Economic Assessment (“PEA”) on its Bongará high-grade zinc deposit in northern Peru. Completion of the PEA is expected in the second-quarter 2017. SRK [...]
Solitario Exploration & Royalty Corp. (“Solitario;” NYSE MKT: XPL; TSX: SLR) is pleased to announce today that its board of directors has appointed John Labate, age 67, to the board of directors. Mr. Labate was also appointed to serve as the Audit Committee chairman. Mr. Labate has over 30 years’ experience in the mining industry [...]