Almaden Infill Drilling Confirms High-Grade Ixtaca North Zone, Hits 12.40 Meters of 3.52 G/T Au, 122.4 G/T Ag (6.0 G/T Aueq) at Ixtaca, Mexico

Almaden Minerals Ltd. ("Almaden" or "the Company") (AMM.TO) (NYSE MKT:AAU) is pleased to announce the results from Almaden's ongoing 2013 Ixtaca Zone drill program at the Company's 100% owned Tuligtic project, Mexico. Almaden has commenced an infill drilling program with three of the four rigs currently drilling on the project. The infill program has been designed to upgrade resources currently in the inferred category to the higher confidence measured and indicated categories. At the same time one drill rig is focussed on step out drilling to expand the resource. The holes announced today show the continuity of high-grade gold silver veining in the east-west Northern zone defined with previous drilling. Highlights from the holes released today include the following intercepts (a more complete list of intercepts is shown in the table below):

Brigus Drills 40.71 gpt Gold Over 26.75 Metres at Black Fox & Reports High Grade Drilling Results at Grey Fox

Brigus Gold Corp. ("Brigus" or the "Company") (NYSE:BRD.TO - News) (TSX:BRD.TO - News) is pleased to report the deepest intersection drilled to date at Black Fox.  Hole GF 454-01-W intersected 40.71 grams per tonne gold over 26.75 metres, including 103.20 grams per tonne gold over 8.35 metres. This test hole was drilled from underground and intersected Black Fox mineralization at approximately 700 metres vertical from surface, extending the west zone by an additional 300m at depth. Recently the Company engaged in a limited drilling program to test the down dip extension of the Black Fox orebody. Orebodies in the region, along the Destor Porcupine Fault, often extend to depths of more than 1,000 metres. The Black Fox orebody remains open for expansion both laterally and at depth.

Fortuna Silver corrects Measured and Indicated Resource breakdown

Fortuna Silver Mines Inc. (NYSE:FSM - News) | (TSX:FVI.TO - News) | (BVL:FVI.TO - News) | (Frankfurt:F4S.F - News) announces that its October 17, 2013 news release entitled "Fortuna Silver increases San Jose silver reserves by 22% and silver inferred resources by 39%" (the "Release") contains typographical errors in the table providing the detail of Measured and Indicated Mineral Resource estimates for the San Jose Mine located in Oaxaca, Mexico. Accordingly, the table headed "Mineral Resources - Measured and Indicated" in the Release is retracted and the following substituted in its place:

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Oct. 17, 2013) - Bayfield Ventures Corp. (TSX VENTURE:BYV)(PINKSHEETS:BYVVF)(FRANKFURT:B4N) is pleased to announce further assays results from the continuing exploration drill program at the Company's Burns Block gold-silver project, Rainy River district, north-western Ontario. The Burns Block is located adjacent to the east of New Gold's multi-million ounce Rainy River gold-silver deposit and adjacent to the west of New Gold's expanding Intrepid gold-silver zone.