Solitario Exploration & Royalty and Zazu Metals are pleased to announce that Solitario has completed its acquisition of Zazu Metals pursuant to the plan of arrangement previously announced on April 27, 2017. The Arrangement was approved by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on July 7, 2017, after overwhelming approval by both Solitario and Zazu shareholders on June 29, 2017. Key investment highlights of the Zazu [...]
Solitario Exploration & Royalty and Zazu Metals are pleased to announce that shareholders of the respective companies have voted overwhelmingly in favor of the previously announced plan of arrangement. The combination is expected to create an exciting new zinc-focused company with two advanced high-grade zinc projects located in favorable jurisdictions with experienced zinc producing joint venture partners. At their [...]
Solitario Exploration & Royalty Corp. (NYSE MKT:XPL; TSX:SLR) ("Solitario") is encouraging Solitario shareholders to vote at its upcoming annual meeting of shareholders (the “Annual Meeting”) electronically, by mail or in person. The Annual Meeting will be held on June 29, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. at the offices of Solitario at 4251 Kipling St., Wheat Ridge, CO 80033, where shareholders will consider, among other [...]
Solitario Exploration & Royalty and Zazu Metals are pleased to announce that they have entered into a definitive arrangement agreement pursuant to which Solitario has agreed to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Zazu by way of a statutory plan of arrangement under the Canada Business Corporations Act. Highlights of the Combined Company Creation of a leading zinc focused explorer and developer [...]
Solitario Exploration & Royalty Corp. (“Solitario;” NYSE MKT: XPL; TSX: SLR) is pleased to announce that its joint venture partner, Minera Milpo (“Milpo”), has elected to participate in the development and funding of a Preliminary Economic Assessment (“PEA”) on the Bongará high-grade zinc deposit in northern Peru. Completion of the PEA is expected by the end of the second quarter [...]
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 [...]