Tocvan Ventures Corp. announced it has poured the first doré bar of gold and silver from bulk sample material processed at its Pilar gold-silver project in Sonora, Mexico. The bar weighs 1.487 kilograms in total, with assays from local certified laboratory LTM returning 18% of gold and 69% of silver.

The bar was processed at a local facility under the supervision of Company staff. Carbon material used to absorb gold and silver during the heap leach bulk test was processed to extract the precious metals. Results are pending to determine the other metals present in the doré bar and to quantify the remaining gold and silver present in the carbon material.

Remaining gold and silver in the carbon and will be processed shortly during a second doré bar pour. During the bulk sample 700 tonnes of material were crushed and processed through heap leach, returning a 1.9 g/t Au head grade and gold recovery of 62%. An additional 700 tonnes of bulk sample material are available for follow on testing of alternative recovery methods including, gravity with agitated leach.

Preliminary agitated leach studies have shown rapid recovery of gold of up to 81%. Gravity with later agitated leach studies have shown recoveries over 95% for gold.