VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 10/09/12 -- South American Silver (TSX: SAC)(PINKSHEETS: SOHAF) is providing an update regarding certain recent statements made by the Bolivian Government ("Bolivia" or the "Government") related to South American Silver and the Malku Khota project. By Supreme Decree dated August 1, 2012, the Government expropriated the project by revoking the mining concessions held by [...]
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 09/19/12 -- South American Silver Corp. (TSX: SAC)(PINKSHEETS: SOHAF) (the "Company") is pleased to announce the results of a 5 hole diamond drilling program and the interpretation of the ZTEM Conductivity and Magnetic geophysical surveys at the Escalones copper-gold project, approximately 100 km southeast of Santiago, Chile and 35 km east of El Teniente, the world's [...]
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 08/27/12 -- South American Silver Corp. (TSX: SAC)(PINKSHEETS: SOHAF) (the "Company") is pleased to announce the appointment of Matias Herrero as full-time Chief Financial Officer ("CFO") of the Company. Mr. Herrero will be fulfilling an expanded CFO function, while William Filtness, South American Silver's previous part-time CFO will continue on with the Company as a [...]
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 08/14/12 -- South American Silver Corp. (TSX: SAC)(PINKSHEETS: SOHAF) reports the release of its unaudited condensed interim consolidated financial statements for the three and six months ended June 30, 2012 and the related management's discussion and analysis of financial position and results of operations ("MD&A"). In this press release, all amounts are expressed in U.S [...]
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 08/13/12 -- South American Silver Corp. (TSX: SAC)(PINKSHEETS: SOHAF) (the "Company") announces that Gregory Johnson has stepped down from his role as President and Chief Executive Officer and as a director of the Company effective August 13, 2012 in order to pursue other interests. The Company thanks him for his contributions and tenure as President and CEO and wishes him [...]
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 08/02/12 -- South American Silver Corp. (TSX: SAC)(PINKSHEETS: SOHAF) (the "Company") announces an update on its plan of action after receiving today official notice of a Nationalization Decree of its Malku Khota silver-indium project in Bolivia. South American Silver Limited, the Company's wholly owned Bermuda subsidiary, invested in Malku Khota through its Bolivian [...]
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 07/11/12 -- South American Silver Corp. (TSX: SAC)(PINKSHEETS: SOHAF) today expressed extreme disappointment in statements made this evening by the Bolivian government that it intends to nationalize the company's development stage Malku Khota silver-indium-gallium project.
South American Silver has not received any formal notice from the Bolivian Government about the [...]
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 07/09/12 -- South American Silver Corp. (TSX: SAC)(PINKSHEETS: SOHAF) today welcomed the confirmation that two of its Bolivian employees, Agustin Cardenas and Fernando Fernandez, and a local policeman have been set free. These are the last people to be freed following a series aggressive acts by a local faction supported by groups from outside the Malku Khota project area [...]
South American Silver today provided a further update on recent events in Bolivia since the update on July 4th. Bolivian government authorities continue in their efforts to restore peace and order to the Malku Khota region in the face of acts of aggression being perpetrated against law-abiding local indigenous communities, police, the company's employees and its local contractors. Four of the detainees taken by the [...]
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 07/04/12 -- South American Silver Corp. (TSX: SAC)(PINKSHEETS: SOHAF) today provided a further update on recent events in Bolivia since the update on June 14th. Over the past few days Bolivian employees working for South American Silver's Bolivian subsidiary, Compania Minera Malku Khota, individuals associated with the Company's drill service contractor and members of local [...]
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 06/14/12 -- South American Silver Corp. (TSX: SAC)(PINKSHEETS: SOHAF) wishes to provide an update on recent events in Bolivia. Officials from the Bolivian Ministry of Mines recently met with the local indigenous communities near the Malku Khota project and confirmed that a small group of people carrying out illegal artisanal mining on exploration concessions owned by South [...]
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/24/12 -- South American Silver Corp. (TSX: SAC)(PINKSHEETS: SOHAF) is pleased to announce that all of the resolutions that shareholders were asked to consider at its 2012 Annual General Meeting held in Vancouver, B.C., were approved. Eight directors were elected at the meeting including Ralph Fitch, Greg Johnson, Antonio Canton, Paul Haber, Peter Harris, John Watson and [...]