Magellan Gold Corporation was formed and organized effective September 28,
2010, under the laws of the State of Nevada. We are an exploration stage company
and our principal business is the acquisition and exploration of mineral resources
in Arizona, California and Nevada. We have not presently determined whether
the properties to which we have mining rights contain mineral deposits that
are economically recoverable.
We were formed and organized by Athena Silver Corporation (“Athena”),
a Delaware corporation, and by John C. Power and John D. Gibbs, two of the control
persons and principal shareholders of Athena. Effective September 2010, we issued
an aggregate of 33 million shares of common stock to our founders in consideration
of $.0025 per share: 30 million shares were issued to Messrs. Power and Gibbs
and 3 million shares were issued to Athena. During 2011, the majority of the
shares issued to Athena were distributed, in the nature of a spin-off dividend
of such shares, to the shareholders of Athena, as of a Record Date of December
31, 2010, pro rata.
Our initial focus was on two mining leases secured in 2010 to explore 70 unpatented
lode claims known as the “Secret Claims” in Washoe County, Nevada
and 10 unpatented lode claims known as the “Randall Claims” in Churchill
County, Nevada. We did not renew these leases after the Silver District option
was signed in August 2012 and it became our flagship project.
n October 24, 2016, Magellan Gold Corporation (the “Company”) entered
into a Mining Option Agreement (the “Option Agreement”) between
and among Rio Silver Inc., a Canadian company (“Rio Silver”), Minera
Rio Plata S.A.C., a Peruvian company and subsidiary of Rio Silver (“Minera”),
and Magellan Gold Peru S.A.C., a Peruvian company and wholly owned subsidiary
of the Company (“Magellan Peru”) pursuant to which Rio Silver through
Minera, shall grant to the Company the sole and exclusive option to acquire
an undivided 50% interest in and to property located in Peru.
Under the terms of the Agreement, the Company Magellan has the right to earn
an undivided 50% interest in the Niñobamba Silver/Gold Project in central
Peru. To earn its 50% interest, Magellan must spend $2.0 million in exploration
over three years. The Niñobamba project is comprised of four concessions
that total 31 square kilometers (7,660 acres). As announced September 12, 2016,
three of the concessions were recently acquired from a Peruvian company owned
jointly by Newmont Mining Corporation and Southern Peru Copper Corporation.
In January 2017, the exploration venture lodged an application for a new 553-hectare
concession, bringing its consolidated land package to 36.5 square kilometers
(9,027 acres). Title to the new concession is expected to be granted by the
Peruvian Ministry during the first half of 2017.
In connection with the Rio Silver transaction, Magellan is obliged to subscribe
to two private placement unit financings in Rio Silver, each for aggregate proceeds
of Cdn$75,000. The Company completed the first unit private placement on August
23, 2016. In January 2017 the second unit private placement was completed.
Our primary focus during the next twelve months, and depending on available
resources, will be to acquire, explore, and if warranted and feasible, permit
and develop our mineral properties.
he Niñobamba property is located 330 km southeast of Lima in the Department
of Ayacucho, south-central Peru. Access is via air to Ayacucho, a city of approximately
200,000 inhabitants, and then a 1.5- hour drive on paved roads to the property.
Alternatively, the property can be reached via an eight-hour drive from Lima
on paved national highways. A national highway passes close to the northern
boundary of the property. From the highway, unimproved roads provide access
to the property. Terrain is typical of the high plateaus of Peru, with sparse
vegetation and a moderate climate. The property’s main land use is for
pastoral purposes and the population is small.
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