RENO, Nevada, June 2, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --
Magellan Gold Corporation (OTCBB: MAGE) ("Magellan" or "the Company") is pleased to announce the
appointment of W. Pierce Carson, PhD, as President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the
Board of Directors. Previously Dr. Carson was President of Gulf & Western Industries, Inc., the Company's 85% owned minerals
subsidiary. Dr. Carson is an unusually well-qualified mining executive who has managed the discovery, financing, development and
operation of mining properties internationally and domestically in an accomplished career spanning over forty years. Among the
companies he has worked for are Exxon Minerals Company, Kennecott Copper Corporation, Nord Pacific Limited and Santa Fe Gold
Corporation. Dr. Carson holds a PhD in Economic and Structural Geology and an MS in Ore Deposits from Stanford University, and a Bachelor's Degree in Geology from Princeton
University.
The Company has entered into a one-year Employment Agreement with Dr. Carson to secure his services.
Mr. John C. Power, formerly President of Magellan, will continue in the roles of Chief
Financial Officer and Director. Mr. Power commented, "We are delighted to welcome Pierce and are fortunate to have the benefit of
his vast experience in finding and developing new mines, especially at this critical time in the strategic growth of our
Company."
Dr. Carson said, "Magellan's Silver District Project represents a significant economic opportunity for the Company and its
stockholders. As CEO, my initial focus will be on advancing the Silver District property through the exploration stage and toward
development and production. We also will be assessing new mineral opportunities with a view to acquiring additional properties,
in particular quality advanced stage projects or properties with potential for early production."
About the Silver District Project, La Paz Co., Arizona
- The Silver District Project in southwest Arizona is an advanced exploration stage project
showing promise for development of a silver mine with by-products fluorspar, barite and lead-zinc.
- The property consists of over 2,000 acres and covers all of the important mines and prospects in the Silver District.
Mineralization is controlled by three principal sub-parallel vein systems extending over a collective strike length of eight
miles.
- Based on historic drilling of 465 shallow holes aggregating 62,866 feet, silver mineralization was estimated as 3.56
million tons grading 4.46 opt silver (15.9 million contained ounces silver), and fluorite mineralization was estimated as 2.3
million tons grading 14.5% CaF2 (328,450 tons contained fluorite). Included within the mineralization, substantial tonnages
grade 17.0% barite (BaSO4) and 3.57% lead-zinc. These historic estimations of mineralization do not constitute a reserve
estimation.
- Most drilling on the veins extended only to 150-200 ft shallow open pit depth, and mineralization is open below that depth.
There appears to be excellent potential to substantially increase resources with deeper drilling. There also is promising
potential to expand the near-surface mineralization along strike extensions of known deposits and along untested vein
segments.
- Conceptual development schemes by past operators have involved multiple open pits feeding a central mill. Flow sheet
designs employ fine grinding and cyanide leaching to recover silver, and conventional flotation to recover fluorspar and
barite.
- Substantial additional work will be required in order to determine the feasibility of developing a new mine. Among other
items, the work will need to include drilling, reserve estimation, metallurgical studies, mine and plant design and
engineering, marketing studies and assessment of permitting issues. Until that work and a positive feasibility study is
concluded, there can be no assurance that the property contains commercially recoverable minerals.
About Magellan Gold Corporation
Magellan Gold Corporation (OTCBB: MAGE) is a Nevada corporation engaged in the
acquisition and exploration of precious metals mineral properties. The Company holds its properties through its 85% owned
subsidiary Gulf & Western Industries, Inc.
The Silver District Property consists of 94 unpatented lode mining claims, 6 patented lode claims, an Arizona mining lease of 335 acres and 23 unpatented mill site claims, totaling over 2,000 acres. The
property covers the heart of the historic Silver District in La Paz County, approximately 50
miles north of Yuma in southwest Arizona. Magellan completed
the acquisition of the Silver District in September 2014.
To learn more about Magellan Gold Corporation, visit http://www.magellangoldcorp.com.
Cautionary Statement
"Mineralized material" as used in this press release, although permissible under the SEC's Industry Guide 7, does not indicate
"reserves" by SEC standards. We cannot be certain that any deposits at our exploration properties will ever be confirmed or
converted into SEC Industry Guide 7 compliant "reserves." Investors are cautioned not to assume that all or any part of the
disclosed mineralized material estimates will ever be confirmed or converted into reserves or that mineralized material can be
economically or legally extracted.
Forward Looking Statements
This release contains "forward-looking statements." Such statements are based on good
faith assumptions that Magellan Gold Corporation believes are reasonable but which are subject to a wide range of uncertainties
and business risks that could cause actual results to differ materially from future results expressed, projected or implied by
such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ from those anticipated are discussed in
Magellan Gold Corporation's periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Contacts:
Magellan Gold Corporation
Pierce Carson +1(505) 463-9223
John Power +1(707) 884-3766
SOURCE Magellan Gold Corporation