Atacama Pacific Gold Corp.

Rio2 and Atacama Pacific Gold are pleased to announce that they have entered into a definitive arrangement agreement to combine their respective businesses via a court approved plan of arrangement. The combined company will continue to operate under the name Rio2 Ltd. and will be managed by Rio2’s existing executive team led by Alex Black as President and Chief Executive Officer. Under the terms of the [...]

Atacama Pacific Gold is pleased to announce the election of Marcio Fonseca to Atacama Pacific's Board of Directors during its recent Annual and Special Meeting of Shareholders. Mr. Fonseca is a Professional Geologist and received a Master of Mineral Project Appraisal - M.Sc. from Imperial College, London. Mr. Fonseca is currently the President and CEO of GoldPlay Exploration Inc., a private exploration company [...]

Atacama Pacific Gold announces that it has defined the Cerro Maricunga Oxide Gold Project development parameters that will be used during the upcoming feasibility study. While the basic tenets of the 2014 Cerro Maricunga Prefeasibility Study remain unchanged, the updated parameters include the elimination of the second and tertiary crushers and the removal of the conveyor system with the identification of a new leach [...]

Atacama Pacific Gold announces that it has received a US$1.8 million payment from a subsidiary of Gold Fields related to the sale of water assets in northern Chile. Under the terms of the 2013 agreement with Gold Fields, Atacama Pacific received a payment of US$60,000 per litre/second of water for the 30.6 l/s approved by the Chilean water authority for use by Gold Fields. A further 12.7 l/s of water are available [...]

Atacama Pacific Gold is pleased to announce that the technical drilling program at its Cerro Maricunga Oxide Gold Project has finished with 700 m of metallurgical drilling in three PQ drill holes and 1,860 m of reverse circulation technical drilling completed. Samples from the metallurgical drilling program are being shipped to the Kappes, Cassidy and Associates' facility in Reno, Nevada for column test work. The [...]

Atacama Pacific Gold announces that it has commenced a technical drilling program on its Cerro Maricunga Oxide Gold Project located in Chile's Region III, 140 kilometres northeast of Copiapo. The drilling campaign is designed for the collection of data for the finalization of metallurgical and geotechnical parameters required for the pending feasibility study and will comprise 1,000 metres ("m") of PQ diamond [...]

Atacama Pacific Gold Corp. announces that it has filed a final short form prospectus in the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario and obtained a receipt from the securities regulatory authorities qualifying the distribution of 12,777,778 units of Atacama Pacific. Each Unit will be comprised of one Atacama Pacific common share and one half of one Atacama Pacific common share purchase warrant (a [...]

Atacama Pacific Gold announces that it has filed a preliminary short form prospectus in the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario and obtained a receipt from the securities regulatory authorities qualifying the distribution of up to 12,777,778 units of Atacama Pacific. Each Unit will be comprised of one Atacama Pacific common share and one half of one Atacama Pacific common share purchase warrant (a [...]

Atacama Pacific Gold is pleased to announce that it has closed its previously announced special warrant financing led by Mackie Research Capital Corporation. Atacama Pacific issued 12,777,778 Special Warrants at a price of $0.45 per Special Warrant for gross proceeds of $5.75 million. The gross proceeds include $...

Atacama Pacific Gold announces that the TSX Venture Exchange has approved the extension of the expiry date of 3,362,500 common share purchase warrants that were issued on November 29, 2013 and were set to expire on November 29, 2016. Under the updated terms of the warrant agreement, each 2013 Warrant entitles the holder thereof to subscribe for one common share at an exercise price of $1.40 any time prior to March [...]