Orex Completes First Option, Forms Joint Venture with Canasil at Sandra Escobar Project
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January 16, 2017
Orex Completes First Option, Forms Joint Venture with Canasil at Sandra Escobar
Project
Vancouver, BC – Orex Minerals Inc. – (TSX-V: REX) (“Orex”) is pleased to announce that it has
exercised the first option and formed a joint venture pursuant to an option agreement dated
September 15, 2015 (the "Option Agreement") with Canasil Resources Inc. – (TSX.V: CLZ)
(“Canasil”). Orex has earned a 55% ownership interest in the Sandra Escobar project in Durango
state, Mexico (the “Project”) by paying Canasil CAD $500,000 upon signing and spending more
than USD $2,000,000 in exploration and development at the Project. A joint committee will be
formed to manage ongoing exploration at the Project with representation based on the
proportional interest of each party.
Under the terms of the Option Agreement, Orex had a second option to earn an additional 10%
interest (for a total of 65%) by paying Canasil an additional CAD $500,000, and spending a
further USD $2,000,000 on exploration and development at the Project in the next two years.
Orex notified Canasil today that it would not be proceeding with the second option.
Orex’s President, Gary Cope says, “We are looking forward to further exploration at the Sandra
Escobar project with Canasil as our joint venture partner.”
Sandra Escobar Silver-Gold Project, Durango, Mexico
Sandra Escobar is situated north of the town of Tepehuanes, Durango, in the heart of the
“Mexican Silver Trend”, midway between the mining districts of Tovar and Guanacevi and is 75
km west of Silver Standard’s La Pitarrilla. This prolific trend hosts some of the world’s largest
silver camps and deposits, including Fresnillo, Guanajuato, La Pitarrilla, La Preciosa, Real de
Angeles and Zacatecas.
The project consists of 6,976 hectares of mineral concessions and covers multiple mineralized
epithermal quartz veins and breccia structures. These veins form a high level silver-gold-base
metals system, hosted in andesitic and rhyolitic rocks, centered on a large rhyolite dome
complex in the north and silver systems in smaller rhyolite dome complexes to the southeast.
Intense alteration zones and fluid flooding in permeable formations indicates the presence of
bulk tonnage targets. Excellent infrastructure exists in the Sandra Escobar area, including paved
road access, electrical power, water and manpower from nearby communities.
Dale Brittliffe, P.Geo., and Ben Whiting, P.Geo., are Qualified Persons, as defined in NI 43-101,
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and take responsibility for the technical disclosure contained within this news release.
ABOUT OREX MINERALS INC.
Orex is a Canadian-based junior exploration company comprised of highly qualified mining
professionals. Orex has several current projects: the Coneto Gold-Silver Project in Durango,
Mexico, a joint venture with Fresnillo PLC, the Jumping Josephine Gold-Silver Project in British
Columbia, Canada, plus the Sandra Escobar Silver Project in Durango, Mexico, with Canasil
Resources Inc.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Gary Cope
President
For further information, please contact Orex Minerals Inc. at (604) 687-8566 x227,
email [email protected] or visit our website at www.orexminerals.com
This News Release may contain forward-looking statements including but not limited to comments
regarding the timing and content of upcoming work programs, geological interpretations, receipt of
property titles, potential mineral recovery processes, etc. Forward-looking statements address future
events and conditions and therefore involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ
materially from those currently anticipated in such statements and Orex undertakes no obligation to update
such statements, except as required by law.
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