IMPACT Silver Corp is a profitable silver mining company with three producing mines in Mexico. With mining operations having been profitable since the first day of production in 2006, IMPACT has distinguished itself as a consistently low-cost and profitable precious metals producer led by a highly respected team of professionals.
IMPACT is positioned for growth with two new mines being constructed in 2012: the open-pit Capire Mine and the underground Oscar Mine. The commencement of production at these two new mines will represent the next phase of growth for the Company and aim to establish IMPACT as a multimillion ounce silver producer.
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Nothing But Gravy
Impact Expands Mexico Silver Production
~ By Ted Niles - June 13, 2011
The Guadalupe Mill has produced over 10 million ounces of silver, tionally good in the area, so mining costs are very low—all in, it’s
and since Impact Silver Corp acquired it in 2006 it shows no signs around $60 a tonne. So this sort of stuff is nothing but gravy for us
of tailing off. Of course, Mexico’s Zacualpan Mining District—lo- when we hit it.”
cated in the Taxco Silver Region, 100 kilometres southwest of
Mexico City—has always been blessed. Says President/CEO Fred Gravy, indeed. In addition to the Guadalupe Mill—currently be-
Davidson, “[These properties] have been in production for 500 ing fed by the company’s Chivo, San Ramon and Noche Buena
years, and I suspect we’ll be producing on them for quite a while mines—Impact is in the final permitting stages for a pilot plant at its
from here on in. We’ve identified over 2,000 old workings, a multi- Capire deposit. Capire is situated on the company’s 200-square-
plicity of veins, and we’re basically trying to explore each of those kilometre Mamatla Silver District, 16 kilometres to the southwest
workings in turn to try and figure out what’s happening.” of Zacualpan, and has a current measured and indicated mineral
resource estimate of 7.2 million ounces silver, 95.6 million pounds
zinc and 37.3 million pounds lead. It is anticipated to start produc-
tion in late 2011.
Impact also has 12 mineral concessions in Zacatecas State and
has purchased a 200-tonne-per-day processing plant there, which
it is currently upgrading.
“I’ve been building mines for a number of years,” remarks Da-
vidson, “and I can tell you that we can literally put a mine into
production in two years in Mexico. You couldn’t do that anywhere
in Canada or the United States.” He adds, “Contrary to mythol-
ogy, it’s a pretty safe area to work in. We’ve never had an incident,
and we’ve been here five years now. And as we go ahead putting
in Capire, I don’t foresee any issues that are going to hold us up
significantly, from permitting on.”
In Q1 2011, Impact reached record silver production at Guada- Returning to Impact’s work in the GCC sector, Davidson con-
lupe of 419 tonnes of ore per day, and the company is focused on cludes, “We’ll be putting more drilling in there. We’ll be doing some
keeping the feed strong. Towards that end it has been conducting additional soil sampling, as these things tend to be extending
exploration drilling on the GCC (Golondrinas, Cuchara and Chon- beyond the original soil and rock-chip samples. This will just be ad-
talpan) sector of its 423-square-kilometres of mineralized con- ditional feed to [Guadalupe], expanding the overall resource in the
cessions in Zacualpan. Davidson explains, “GCC is in one of the area. We’ll have it producing probably by next year.”
valleys—that we’ve been developing a number of targets in—that
services our Guadalupe Mill. It’s part of our overall program there. IMPACT Silver Corp trades on the TSX Venture Exchange and
It’s a fairly complex series of veins, and it’s taking a little bit to inter- currently has a market cap of $106.97 million, trading at $1.70 per
“
pret. But you can see we’re finally getting some valid information share.
coming out of there. It looks like it’ll be another production centre
for us in the near future.”
June 7 assays of the GCC sector include 116.5 grams per tonne
silver over 5.8 metres, 85.3 g/t over 2.5 metres, 111.3 g/t over 1.9
We can literally put a mine
metres, 140.1 g/t over 3.5 metres, 345.8 g/t over 0.7 metres, 113 into production in two years
g/t over 1.2 metres, 132.3 g/t over 2.8 metres and 129.9 g/t over 2
metres. Davidson comments, “These assays are actually more in in Mexico.
keeping with our expectations. We’ve produced from that sort of
grade and that sort of width already, so we’re very familiar with it. I – Fred Davidson
suspect by early next year we’ll be driving an adit [mine entrance]
into at least one or more of the targets here. The ground is excep-
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