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Southern Silver’s Due Diligence Completed with Freeport-McMoRan Exploration Corporation

Silver – Southern Silver Exploration Corp. (TSXV:SSV,FWB:SEG) announced that Freeport-McMoRan Exploration Corporation has completed its due diligence under an Earn-In Agreement that is related to the Cerro Las Minitas project in Durango, Mexico. The Earn-in agreement that the Company entered into granted Freeport the right to earn an indirect 70% interest in the Cerro Las Minitas property by making staged purchase payments and funding exploration and development expenditures of $25 million on the Cerro Las Minitas property.

Skarn Copper Deposits

Copper – Arguably, copper skarns are the world’s most abundant skarn type. The largest copper skarns are associated with mineralized porphyry copper plutons. These deposits can exceed 1 billion tonnes of combined porphyry and skarn ore, with more than 5 million tonnes of recoverable copper.