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 Consulting (U.S.), Inc. (“SRK”) is an independent and internationally [...]
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 and has held senior financial management positions in mining and technology [...]
Solitario Exploration & Royalty Corp. (“Solitario;” NYSE MKT:XPL; TSX:SLR) today announced that it will be initiating a NI-43-101 Preliminary Economic Study (“PEA”) on its Bongará zinc project in northern Peru. This will be the first evaluation to estimate the potential economics of the Bongará project. The project hosts a significant high-grade zinc resource that is open to expansion [...]
Solitario Exploration & Royalty Corp. (“Solitario;” NYSE MKT: XPL; TSX: SLR) today announced that Mark E. Jones, III has resigned as Vice-Chairman and Director, effective November 11, 2016. Chris Herald, President and CEO of Solitario, stated, "On behalf of the Board and Solitario employees, we thank Mark for his more than 25 years with Solitario from its founding and his time with Crown Resources Corporation [...]
Solitario Exploration & Royalty Corp. (“Solitario;” NYSE MKT: XPL; TSX: SLR) is pleased to announce the results of its annual meeting of shareholders held on June 14, 2016 in Solitario’s corporate headquarters in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. A total of 31,366,975 common shares, representing approximately 80.0% of common shares, were represented in person or by proxy at the meeting. The five director nominees [...]
Solitario Exploration & Royalty Corp. (“Solitario;” NYSE MKT: XPL; TSX: SLR) announces that it has purchased a 1.5% Net Smelter Return (“NSR”) royalty on 15,831 acres of highly prospective mineral properties in Montana. The royalties were purchased from Atna Resources Inc. (“Atna”) as part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy auction process. In 2012, Atna evaluated the mineral potential on [...]
Solitario Exploration & Royalty Corp. (“Solitario;” NYSE MKT: XPL; TSX: SLR) announces that it has made a strategic 9.97% equity investment in Vendetta Mining Corp. (“Vendetta”). Solitario purchased 7,240,000 units of Vendetta for total consideration of Cdn$362,000. Each unit consists of one common share priced at Cdn$0.05 per share and one full warrant with a two-year term and exercisable at [...]
Solitario Exploration & Royalty Corp. (“Solitario;” NYSE MKT: XPL; TSX: SLR) is pleased to announce today that its board of directors approved a share repurchase program that authorizes the Company to purchase up to 2.0 million shares of its outstanding common stock through December 31, 2016. All shares repurchased will be cancelled and reduce Solitario’s current 39.2 million shares outstanding. The [...]
Solitario and Ely Gold are pleased to announce that they have closed the previously announced agreement (see news release dated June 11, 2015) to sell their combined interests in the Mt. Hamilton gold project to Waterton Nevada Splitter, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Waterton Precious Metals Fund II Cayman, for total cash proceeds of US$30 million. The Transaction was structured as the sale of the Sellers’ membership [...]
Solitario is pleased to announce the results of its annual meeting of shareholders held on August 14, 2015 in Solitario’s corporate headquarters in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. A total of 34,074,372 common shares, representing approximately 86.67% of common shares were represented in person or by proxy at the meeting. Solitario shareholders overwhelmingly approved the proposal to sell the Company’s 80% membership interest in [...]
Solitario Exploration & Royalty Corp. (“Solitario;” NYSE MKT: XPL; TSX: SLR) is pleased to announce that it has extended the expiry date of its US$5.0 million secured credit facility agreement (the “Facility Agreement”) with RMB Australia Holdings Limited (“RMB”) dated August 10, 2012. The expiry date of the Facility was extended to allow for any additional time that may be necessary to [...]
Solitario Exploration & Royalty Corp. (NYSE MKT:XPL; TSX:SLR) ( €œSolitario €) and Ely Gold & Minerals Inc. (TSX.V:ELY) ( €œEly Gold €, and together with Solitario, the €œSellers €) are pleased to announce that they have entered into a definitive agreement (the €œAgreement €) to sell their combined interests in the Mt. Hamilton gold project ( €œMt [...]