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Minera Alamos is a growing North American gold production and development company. The Company owns the Pan Operating Complex in White Pine County, Nevada, comprised of the Pan heap leach gold mine and the adjacent fully permitted Gold Rock project, as well as the nearby past-producing Illipah project. The Company also owns the Copperstone mine and associated infrastructure in La Paz County, Arizona, an advanced development asset with a permitted mine plan of operations (MPO) that can be developed in parallel with planned project advancements in Mexico. The Company maintains a portfolio of high-quality Mexican assets, including the 100%-owned Santana open-pit, heap-leach mine in Sonora. The 100%-owned Cerro de Oro oxide gold project in northern Zacatecas has considerable past drilling and metallurgical work completed and the Company’s proposed mining project is currently being guided through the permitting process by the Company and its permitting consultants. The La Fortuna open pit gold project in Durango (100%-owned) has a positive, robust PEA completed, and the main Federal permits are in place. Minera Alamos is built around its operating team that together brought three open pit heap leach gold mines into successful production in Mexico over the last 14 years. The Company’s strategy is to become a leading, Americas-focused intermediate gold producer by growing production at its Pan Operating Complex and developing its pipeline of high-quality, low-capital projects while expanding gold resources across its portfolio.

Bear Creek Mining is a precious metals producer with a world-class silver development asset. Our Corani silver-polymetallic deposit in Puno, Peru is one of the largest fully permitted silver deposits in the world, and our Mercedes mine in Sonora, Mexico is a cash flow generating gold and silver mine with operational upside and exciting exploration potential. Bear Creek's executives and directors have a substantial breadth and depth of experience discovering, advancing, financing, developing, constructing and operating mines in Latin America and we are committed to excellence in social responsibility, environmental stewardship and good governance.

Silver Bull Resources Inc. (AMEX:SVBL, TSX:SVB) is a well-financed exploration stage enterprise engaged in the business of mining and headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. Silver Bull owns mining concessions in the municipality of Sierra Mojada, Coahuila, Mexico and with the April 16, 2010 merger/acquisition of Dome Ventures Corporation exploration licenses in Gabon, Africa. Dome Ventures is a wholly owned subsidiary of Metalline and no longer trades in the public market. Silver Bull's primary focus is the Sierra Mojada Project located in Coahuila State, Mexico, which is 250 km North of the city of Torreon. Silver Bull has acquired or has options to acquire mineral concessions totaling 19,580 hectares (48,362 acres) in the Sierra Mojada Mining District. The company has been working on the property since 1997 and has completed over 80,000 meters of drilling.