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Empress Resources and Alto Ventures Announce Potential Business Combination

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - February 4, 2020) - Empress Resources Corp. ("Empress") (TSXV: EMPX) and Alto Ventures Ltd ("Alto") (TSXV: ATV) are pleased to announce they have entered into a non-binding letter agreement (the "LOI") for a proposed business combination (the "Transaction"). Pursuant to the Transaction, Alto will acquire all the issued and outstanding common shares of Empress from their holders on the basis of one common share of Alto being exchanged for each...

2020-02-04 7:00 AM EST

Alto Recovers High Gold Grain Counts from Glacial Till Samples at Mud Lake, Beardmore-Geraldton Gold Belt, Ontario

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - October 29, 2019) - Alto Ventures Ltd. (TSXV: ATV) is pleased to announce results from 40 surface glacial till samples collected on its 100% owned Mud Lake gold property during the 2018 and follow up 2019 field seasons. The Mud Lake property is located in the Beardmore-Geraldton gold belt in Ontario and adjacent to the Ishkoday property which is being actively explored by Laurion Mineral Exploration Inc. Gold grains were recovered from 38 of the...

2019-10-29 9:00 AM EDT

Alto Drills 11 Sonic Holes at Destiny

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - July 24, 2019) - Alto Ventures Ltd. (TSXV: ATV) is pleased to announce completion of the 11 sonic drill hole orientation program on its Destiny project in Quebec. The program is in part a follow-up to the compilation work done by Alto this past winter (see Alto news release dated February 27, 2019) and tests a number of analytical methods to determine if gold mineralization can be discovered using glacial dispersion overburden sampling...

2019-07-24 9:00 AM EDT

Alto Commences Sonic Drilling at Destiny

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - June 27, 2019) - Alto Ventures Ltd. (TSXV: ATV) is pleased to announce the commencement of a 10 sonic drill hole orientation study on its Destiny project in Quebec. The study is in part a follow-up to the compilation work completed by Alto this past winter (see Alto news release dated February 27, 2019) and tests a number of analytical methods to determine if gold mineralization can be discovered using glacial dispersion overburden sampling...

2019-06-27 12:09 PM EDT

Alto Provides Update on Gold Projects

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - February 27, 2019) - Alto Ventures Ltd. (TSXV: ATV) is pleased to provide an update on its Destiny project in Quebec, Miner Lake project in Ontario and Oxford Lake project in Manitoba. The Company will feature a booth, number 2622A in the Investors Exchange at the 2019 PDAC Convention in Toronto on Sunday March 3 and Monday March 4, 2019 to provide additional information on these projects. Destiny, Quebec The Destiny project hosts the DAC Gold...

2019-02-27 9:00 AM EST

Alto Receives Work Permit for Oxford Lake Project, Manitoba

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - December 6, 2018) - Further to its news release of November 6, 2017, Alto Ventures Ltd. (TSXV: ATV) (the "Company") has now received a work permit to carry out exploration programs consisting of line cutting, ground geophysics and 3,000 m of diamond drilling on its Oxford Lake project in Manitoba. The work permit was issued with certain conditions including a requirement that a heritage resource impact assessment (satisfactory to the Historic...

2018-12-06 9:00 AM EST

Alto Reports Drilling Results from Miner Lake, Ontario

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - November 14, 2018) - Alto Ventures Ltd. (TSXV: ATV) has received results from the 1,010 m diamond drill program completed on the Miner Lake project in the Beardmore-Geraldton gold camp in Ontario. A total of five holes were drilled to further test the main East-West mineralized corridor as well as other targets on the property (see Figure 1). The current program continues to build on Alto's previous work that identified persistent anomalous gold...

2018-11-14 9:00 AM EST

Alto Commences Drilling at Miner Lake, Ontario and Grants Stock Options

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - September 19, 2018) - Alto Ventures Ltd. (TSXV: ATV) is pleased to announce the commencement of a 1,000 metre drill program on the Miner Lake project in the Beardmore-Geraldton gold camp in Ontario. A total of five to six holes will further test the main East-West mineralized corridor as well as two holes at other targets on the property. Drilling by Alto in 2011 intersected significant gold mineralization in eight of nine holes drilled including...

2018-09-19 9:00 AM EDT

Alto Ventures Ltd.'s Summer Exploration Results, Beardmore Gold Camp, Ontario

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - September 10, 2018) - Alto Ventures Ltd. (TSXV: ATV) is pleased to announce that summer exploration work was completed on the Miner Lake, Mud Lake and Brookbank East properties in the Beardmore-Geraldton gold camp in Ontario (Figure 1). Surface exploration work, including geological and detailed structural mapping, prospecting, ground VLF surveying, bedrock and glacial till sampling, have given the Company a greater understanding of the controls...

2018-09-10 9:00 AM EDT

Alto Commences Summer Exploration on the Miner Lake and Brookbank East Projects, Beardmore, Ontario

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - July 11, 2018) - Alto Ventures Ltd. (TSXV: ATV) is pleased to announce that summer exploration worked has started on the Miner Lake and Brookbank East properties in the Beardmore-Geraldton gold camp in Ontario. Surface exploration at Miner Lake includes geological mapping, detailed structural mapping, prospecting, sampling, and ground VLF surveying in preparation for diamond drilling. A diamond drilling program is anticipated to start in...

2018-07-11 9:00 AM EDT

Alto Enters into Option Agreement on the Destiny Gold Property, Quebec

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - May 15, 2018) - Alto Ventures Ltd. (TSXV: ATV) is pleased to announce that it has executed an Earn-in Agreement (the "Agreement") with Hinterland Metals Inc. (TSXV: HMI) ("Hinterland"), whereby Hinterland may earn an interest in Alto's 101-claim (4,010-hectare) Destiny property (the "Property") located approximately 75 kilometres ("km") north of Val-d'Or in the Abitibi Region of Quebec. An all-season paved road provides direct access to the...

2018-05-15 9:15 AM EDT

Alto Stakes Claims on Trend from Centerra/Premier Gold JV Brookbank Gold Deposit, Beardmore, Ontario

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - May 2, 2018) - Alto Ventures Ltd. (TSXV: ATV) is pleased to announce the acquisition through staking of 63 claim units totaling 1,300 hectares located in the Beardmore-Geraldton gold belt, approximately 25 km east from Beardmore and 55 km west from Geraldton (the "Brookbank East Project"). The Brookbank East property lies along an easterly trend of numerous gold occurrences, including the Brookbank Gold Deposit held in a 50/50 joint venture...

2018-05-02 9:00 AM EDT

Alto Project Update and 2018 Exploration Plan

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - January 17, 2018) - Alto Ventures Ltd. (TSXV: ATV) is pleased to announce that planning has started for the 2018 exploration program on its Miner Lake Gold Property in the Beardmore-Geraldton gold camp in Ontario. Surface exploration this spring will be followed up with a summer diamond drill program. Miner Lake is located approximately 45 km northeast of the Town of Beardmore, Ontario and 10 km northwest of Greenstone Gold Mines Brookbank Gold...

2018-01-17 9:00 AM EST

Alto Announces $200,000 Non-brokered Private Placement

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - December 27, 2017) - Alto Ventures Ltd. (TSXV: ATV) is pleased to announce a non-brokered private placement of up to 2,500,000 units ("Unit") at a price of $0.08 per Unit for total proceeds of $200,000. Each Unit will be comprised of one flow-through common share and one-half of one share purchase warrant (a "Warrant"). Each whole Warrant is exercisable to purchase one non-flow through common share of the Company at a price of $0.12 per share for...

2017-12-27 9:00 AM EST

Alto Ventures Provides Update on Oxford Lake Project, Manitoba

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - December 22, 2017) - Alto Ventures Ltd. (TSXV: ATV) has decided, after careful consideration, not to proceed indefinitely with an exploration program at Oxford Lake in Manitoba. This decision was made in light of recent changes in position of the Bunibonibee Cree Nation toward the proposed exploration, and related challenges the company faced in obtaining clear and timely information regarding the Government of Manitoba's position on Aboriginal...

2017-12-22 6:44 PM EST

Alto Appoints Michael A. Steeves to Board of Directors

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - December 11, 2017) - Alto Ventures Ltd. (TSXV: ATV) ("Alto" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the appointment of Michael A. Steeves as a new Director at the Company's AGM held on December 5, 2017. Mr. Steeves has been involved in the mining industry for more than 45 years. He was formerly President and Chief Operating Officer of Zazu Metals Corporation which recently sold its 50 percent interest in a large zinc-lead-silver deposit near the...

2017-12-11 9:00 AM EST

Alto Identifies Further Gold Mineralization Along the 30km Carrot River-Rusty-Blue Jay Gold Trend, Oxford Lake, Manitoba

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - November 6, 2017) - Alto Ventures Ltd. (TSXV: ATV) is pleased to announce highlights of results from the 2017 summer program along the Carrot River-Rusty-Blue Jay trend on the Oxford Lake project in Manitoba (Figure 1). The Carrot River-Rusty-Blue Jay trend is a 30 km trend of aeromagnetic highs associated with banded iron formation ("BIF") units which host the historical 154,000 ounce Rusty Gold Deposit*, the multiple, high grade Blue Jay Gold...

2017-11-06 9:00 AM EST

Alto Confirms High Grades from Grab Samples at Cat Eye Bay, Oxford Lake, Manitoba

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - October 18, 2017) - Alto Ventures Ltd. (TSXV: ATV) is pleased to announce highlights of results from the 2017 summer program in the Cat Eye Bay area on the Oxford Lake project in Manitoba (Figure 1). The Cat Eye Bay area is one of three separate locations worked on in 2017 and lies near the southeast end of this large property, approximately 15 km southwest from the Rusty banded iron formation ("BIF") associated gold deposit. Grab samples of the...

2017-10-18 9:00 AM EDT

Alto Announces $525,000 Non-Brokered Private Placement

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - October 2, 2017) - Alto Ventures Ltd. (TSXV: ATV) is pleased to announce a non-brokered private placement of up to $525,000 through the issuance of 7,500,000 units ("Units") at a price of $0.07 per Unit. Each Unit will be comprised of one common share and one-half of one share purchase warrant (a "Warrant"). Each whole Warrant is exercisable to purchase one common share of the Company at a price of $0.12 per share for a period of thirty months...

2017-10-02 9:00 AM EDT

Alto Confirms High Grades from Grab Samples of Narrow Veins on Hyers Island at Oxford Lake, Manitoba

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - September 19, 2017) - Alto Ventures Ltd. (TSXV: ATV) is pleased to announce highlights of results from the 2017 summer program in the Hyers Island area on the Oxford Lake project in Manitoba. Results from the magnetic trend hosting the Rusty banded iron formation ("BIF") associated gold deposit and the Cat Eye Bay area of the Oxford Lake project will be released in the near future. The Hyers Island area is one of three separate locations worked...

2017-09-19 9:00 AM EDT

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