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NioGold Is Starting Phase 2 of Its Project on the Heels of Good Drill Results by By Dr. Allen Alper and Aaron Hoos NioGold Mining Corporation (TSX: NOX) is starting the next phase of drilling on the Marban project near Val d’Or Quebec, thanks to the positive results of its first phase, and in anticipation of drilling results to be released later this year. Click here to continue...	Dynacor Gold Mines Inc. operates with a Unique Business Model by Dr. Allen Alper Dynacor Gold Mines Inc., a junior exploration company operating in Peru, is not only exploring their own flagship property: Tumipampa but also processes gold ore for small scale miners in the area. Click here to continue...	Marston Webb’s GOLD & SILVER Notes and Quotes by Marston Webb A monthly review of published articles, reports, and research on gold and silver As 2011 wound down to its final days, traders tended to dump currency alternatives in favor of the flexibility of actual cash, as Europe's debt crisis dragged on. Precious metals, one of the hottest trades in commodities for much of the year, continued to lose favor. Silver touched a 13-month low and platinum fell to a fresh two year nadir. Click here to continue...
Goldrush Resources Ltd. (TSXV-GOD) :Discovering and Developing Economic Gold Deposits in Burkina Faso, West Africa. by Dr. Allen M. Alper Goldrush Resources Ltd. holds 12 permits in Burkina Faso, one of the hottest gold exploration areas in the world. With 4 drill projects, which are either underway or about to begin, Len Brownlie, President and CEO, Goldrush Resources Ltd., thinks the current low price of the stock provides an excellent buying opportunity for investors to purchase before their drilling campaign gets fully underway. “With the current stock price at around 12 cents, there’s not much you can lose,” says Mr. Brownlie Click here to continue...	Marston Webb’s Gold & Silver Notes and Quotes by Marston Webb Click here to continue...	Fire River Gold - Developing Multi-pronged profits at Nixon Fork by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Jason Clements "We're very high grade, a low tonnage operation," says Richard Goodwin, President and COO of Fire River Gold (TSX.V-FAU). He's talking about his company's Nixon Fork gold mine which is situated just over 300 kilometers Northwest of Anchorage in Alaska. Click here to continue...
Balmoral Resources (TSX:V:BAR) Focuses on Gold Exploration in the Gold Rich Detour Lake Region by Dr. Allen M. Alper Balmoral Resources, founded in November of 2010, has already made several significant new gold discoveries in Quebec's historic Detour Lake Belt. Click here to continue...	Trade Winds Ventures Inc (TSX-V:TWD) on Target at Detour Lake: Exploring and Developing their Large Gold Deposit by Dr. Allen M. Alper "We've got an awful lot of knowledge coming from what's happened next door to Detour Gold so our challenges are probably less difficult for us to face than maybe if we were out in the middle of nowhere doing this initially," admits Ian Lambert, President and CEO of Toronto-based Trade Winds Ventures Inc (TSX-V:TWD). Ian's been with Trade Winds for 21 years. Click here to continue...	Sacre-Coeur Minerals (SCM.V/S5N.F – TSX & Frankfurt) Advances Million Mountain in Guyana's Gold Mining Centers by Dr. Allen M. Alper Sacre-Coeur Minerals, a Vancouver based exploration and development company, is focusing on developing the Million Mountain Property in Guyana. Click here to continue...
Trade Winds Resources Gold Properties Continues to Soar by Allen M. Alper Jr. In a previous article, we discussed how Trade Winds Ventures has managed the Block A property. In this follow up article, Ian Lambert, CEO of Trade Winds offers an update on the progress of the gold find and their overall business objectives. Click here to continue...	Brian Kirwin of American Bonanza Gold Corp $TSX:BZA Plans Gold Production in 2011 by Allen Alper American Bonanza (TSX: BZA) is an emerging gold producer whose property, projections, and business plan look quite compelling for investors. Click here to continue...	First Majestic Silver Corp. Building a Senior Silver Producing Mining Company by Allen Alper and Jeff Senior Keith Neumeyer began his professional career in the financial industry. He started in the brokerage business in 1983 and worked for three of Canada’s largest brokerage firms before making a career change when the crash of 1987 decimated the financial markets. Click here to continue...
PDAC 2011 by Allen Alper and Jeff Senior With the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada’s next Toronto show set for 6-9 March 2011, we caught up with Joe Hinzer to find out what’s on the agenda. Click here to continue...	Thomas Morris, Northern Superior Resources. A new major gold district at Ti-pa-haa-kaa-ning in Ontario. by Dr. Allen Alper "A lot of the next finds are going to be under the dirt," says Thomas Morris, President, CEO and Director of Ontario-based Northern Superior Resources. Click here to continue...	As Copper Surges Crazy Horse Resources is Knocking at the Door of China by Dr. Allen Alper and Aaron Hoos Since Asian countries are experiencing an economic boom, there is a huge demand for commodities to build infrastructure to keep up. Investors know this and are investing accordingly, not only in commodities themselves but also in companies that are closely tied to commodities. Click here to continue...
Lydian International by Allen Alper and Jeff Senior According to Lydian’s President and CEO Tim Coughlan, what makes the firm different is that it started as a concept play that turned into a company rather than being a company that was founded from a particular project. With a background as a geologist, he’s spent most of his career as an industry consultant and has tended to specialize in ‘target generation’, which is basically regional exploration. Click here to continue...	Leadership Spotlight: Rob McEwen by Dr. Allen Alper and Aaron Hoos Rob McEwen, a leader in the mining industry, has shaped the current business climate for mining gold and silver in North America and beyond. He is the founder and former chairman of Goldcorp, a senior producing gold company that calls itself the lowest cost, fasting growing gold company. Click here to continue...	Anthony O’Sullivan: Nautilus Minerals’ Mining Massive Sulfides at the Seafloor for high grade copper, gold, zinc and silver Resource by Dr. Allen M, Alper and Bryan Martin We spoke to Anthony O’Sullivan, chief operating officer of Nautilus Minerals Inc ("Nautilus") He has over 20 years of industry experience, 15 of which were with BHP Billiton. He explained that Nautilus is using technology developed by the offshore oil and gas industry to tap vast offshore resources. Click here to continue...
From Gold Pan to Gold Mine: How Sutter Gold Got Started and Where it’s Headed by Allen Alper and Aaron Hoos Sutter Gold Mining Inc. (TSX-V: SGM) has an interesting story that these kinds of investors will love. In some ways, Sutter Gold Mining’s current success began in part with Matt Collins (the COO of Sutter Gold Mining), panning for gold. Click here to continue...	NovaGold Resources: Objective is to Become a Low Cost, Million Ounce a Year Gold Producer by Dr. Allen Alper and Jeff Senior “We’re not in production yet but our objective is to become a low cost, million ounce a year gold producer. And we’ll get there by putting our two core projects into production. We own 50% of the big Donlin Creek deposit up in Alaska. It’s got 40 million ounces of gold all told, so it’s really one of the largest undeveloped gold deposits in the world. And we’ve also got a 50% interest at the big Galore Creek copper-gold-silver deposit in British Columbia, Canada.” Click here to continue...	Hecla Mining Company, Largest USA Silver Producer: Mining, Exploring, Developing by Allen Alper Jr. and Jeff Senior “The first thing is to be happy to have it here in our backyard. When I look at the conference, the thing that strikes me is the new companies that are now starting to do exploration in silver. That’s a great thing because, basically for 25 years, there was no exploration done for silver. Unlike gold, which has had this continuous investment in exploration, there has been, to all intents and purposes, zero in the silver industry.” Click here to continue...
Hard Assets Investment Conference by Allen Alper and Jeff Senior After the conclusion of the Hard Assets Investment Conference in San Francisco on 21-22 November, we spoke to Summit Business Media’s Jonathan Moore. As Senior Vice President and Managing Director of their Events Division, he’s in as good a position as anybody to give an impression of the event. And overall, he was well satisfied. Click here to continue...	Golden Phoenix Minerals: Royalty Mining In The Americas by Allen Alper Jr. and Jeff Senior CEO and Director Thomas Klein joined Golden Phoenix when it got into financial difficulties in the fall of 2008 due to the price of molybdenum crashing from $40 to below $10. The company has been running for around twelve years and had previously brought two mines into production for a period of time — the Ashdown Mine and the Mineral Ridge project, both in Nevada. Click here to continue...	Estrella Gold Applies Global Lessons to Build Gold Value in Peru by Dr. Allen Alper Peru has a storied past in precious metals. How does it continue to produce rich mineral finds today? Estrella Gold Corporation shows how it applies modern methods and talent to pursue new discoveries in Peru. Click here to continue...
Ormonde Mining: An Emerging Tungsten Producer by Allen Alper and Jeff Senior At the recent ITIA meeting, we caught up with the company’s Chief Operating Officer Steve Nicol and Executive Chairman Mike Donoghue to find out the latest developments. Although an Irish company, Ormonde Mining’s operations are centered in Spain. Click here to continue...	Tasman Metals Ltd: The Rare Earth Element Exploration Company in Scandinavia by Dr Allen Alper and Jeff Senior Tasman is an international mix as a Canadian mineral exploration and development company that was formed by two Australians and is focused exclusively on Scandinavia. Click here to continue...	Mawson Resources High Grade Gold and Uranium Finland, Sweden Plus Gold and Copper in Peru by Dr. Allen Alper and Jeff Senior President and CEO Michael Hudson is a geologist who has spent the last twenty years looking for metals around the world. “It’s my passion,” he comments. “It’s what we exploration geologists love to do.” Click here to continue...
Eagle Hill Exploration: Quebec’s Big Golden Play by Dr. Allen Alper and Aaron Hoos When investors look for junior exploration companies, their expectations are set a little lower. They don’t expect big plays. They don’t expect a lot of discoveries. These investors are taking a risk and hoping to see some interesting discoveries. Click here to continue...	Eastmain Resources Systematically Developing Large Gold Resources in Quebec by Dr. Allen Alper, Allen Alper Jr. and Bryan Martin For Eastmain Resources Ltd., the Toronto-based junior with a proven track record of excellence, a summer of diligent hard work has inevitably given way to basking in autumn’s golden hue, a color that can be said to directly reflect the bright future of this ever-promising exploration company. Click here to continue...	Midlands Minerals Focused on Growing Gold Assets in Ghana and Tanzania by Allen Alper and Bryan Martin Midlands Minerals is a lively, very interesting junior company primarily focused on broadening its resources in the politically stable countries of Ghana and Tanzania, the second and third largest gold producers in Africa respectively. Click here to continue...
Philippine Metals Inc. Moves Forward with Taurus Copper and Gold Project by Allen Alper Jr. We recently had the opportunity to speak once again with Marshall Farris, President and Director of Philippine Metals Inc. (TSXV: PHI, Frankfurt: PM7*), a discovery, exploration and development company focused on highly-prospective copper and copper-gold deposits in the Philippines. Click here to continue...	Stan Bharti Leader of Forbes & Manhattan by Dr. Allen Alper and Jeff Senior A leading private merchant bank that mainly manages junior resource companies to create shareholder value, Forbes & Manhattan has founded and managed many public and private enterprises. It employs geologists and mining engineers as well as financial professionals and lawyers so it can focus on the global resources sector. Click here to continue...	Excellent Positioning and a Recent Agreement Make NioGold a Compelling Opportunity by Dr. Allen Alper, Aaron Hoos and Bryan Martin Good companies that turn into great companies can trace that breakthrough moment back to a single, significant event in their history. That event is the moment when they transformed into a dominant force, even though it might take years before they achieve headline-making status. Click here to continue...
Minefinders: Pouring Gold with Considerable Potential for Growth by Dr. Allen Alper and Jeff Senior Vancouver-based Minefinders Corporation Ltd. is a junior mining company with considerable potential for growth. It currently has five projects in Mexico that are at different stages of development. Click here to continue...	Largo Resources Seeks to be a Significant Low Cost Producer of Vanadium and Tungsten by Allen M. Alper Jr. and Aaron Hoos Savvy investors carefully watch for businesses that not only work on growing revenue but also manage their costs and drive them down to grow profit margins. Click here to continue...	Antioquia Gold Brings its Wealth of Experience to Colombia by Allen M. Alper and Aaron Hoos Imagine gathering a bunch of experts together and asking them to build a gold mine. Investors love those kinds of investing stories because experts tend to apply their expertise and turn potential into success. Click here to continue...
The Discovery Group: Pooled Resources for a Track Record of Discovery by Dr. Allen Alper and Jeff Senior The main concept behind the Discovery Group is to create opportunities for world-class exploration success through the sharing of resources and intellectual capital. Director of Marketing Ian McPherson deals with all the companies in the group and so is the ideal person to put us in the picture about its various activities. Click here to continue...	Malaga Inc is a Niche Tungsten Player with Burgeoning Opportunities by Allen M. Alper and Aaron Hoos There's something really compelling about a niche player who is completely focused on one opportunity. In some cases, it can be daring (and even risky) but when fate works in their favor, it's an exciting and even profitable opportunity. Click here to continue...	Canada Lithium is Betting on an Electric Future by Allen Alper and Aaron Hoos Smart investors pay attention to social and economic trends and make investments based on where they see consumer attitudes shifting. One area that is getting more and more attention, both at the government level and the consumer level, is the electric car. Click here to continue...
NioGold is a Quebec Success Story with Plenty of Upside by Allen M. Alper and Aaron Hoos Although some investors prefer riskier investments to have the opportunity to get sky-high paybacks, many investors feel that the most profitable opportunities are those where the risk is well-managed and the payback potential is clearly laid out. Click here to continue...	Malbex: A Newly Listed Argentina Play Is an Interesting Story for Investors by Allen M. Alper and Aaron Hoos What investor doesn't wish he had bought into Microsoft or Apple or Google or Berkshire Hathaway when it was trading for just pennies? The climb in stock prices would assure any investor that they were set for life. Click here to continue...	Sacre-Coeur Minerals Developing Low Cost Gold in Guyana by Allen Alper and Jeff Senior Although based in Vancouver, Sacre-Coeur’s main interest is in Guyana, where it is engaged in exploring and developing properties for gold, other metals and diamonds. We caught up with President and CEO Gregory Sparks at the airport where he was about to board a plane for Guyana. Click here to continue...
The Gold Anti-Trust Committee Gives a Dire Warning by Allen Alper and Aaron Hoos When you talk to junior mining companies who are trying to drum up money to fund their exploration, you'll frequently hear about how rosy the future looks: Prices can only go up, opportunity will only increase, and the economy can only get better. Click here to continue...	Rio Novo Gold Goes Big by Allen M. Alper and Aaron Hoos But Rio Novo Gold (TSX: RN) is going one step further: It's aiming to run entire gold districts, which is an interesting and aggressive play to lock out competitors and cash in on opportunities over a large piece of land. But that's not the only exciting aspect of Rio Novo Gold. Their financial outlook is exciting, given their project's history and its current state of development. Click here to continue...	Building a Hard Assets Conference That’s Hard to Beat by Allen Alper Looking forward to the next Hard Assets Investment Conference? We had a chance to sit down with Jonathan Moore, the show organizer. Click here to continue...
New Growth: The Agnico-Eagle Mines Story by Allen M Alper Jr and Aaron Hoos Stories of explosive business growth are compelling to mining industry investors who want to get an early lead on opportunities. Agnico-Eagle Mines (AEM) offers a fascinating story of a company that progressed steadily for many years and then, recently, switched tactics and is now seeing some exciting growth in new directions. Click here to continue...	Rare Element Resources, Working in a Jurisdiction Ranked Number Two in the World for Developing a Mine by Dr. Allen M. Alper Rare earth elements have a variety of uses, with around 19% used as catalysts, mainly in crude oil refining. A further 27% have uses in the glass and ceramics industry while 18% are used in metallurgy as an alloying agent. Applications in batteries and permanent magnets are increasing rapidly with “super” magnets consuming 21%. Click here to continue...	Sona Resources Corp is Achieving Goals and Building its Portfolio Gold Projects by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Aaron Hoos Metals investors are used to seeing junior companies founded on a good idea and a healthy amount of hope. But if the junior company was founded a couple of decades ago and currently owns 4 projects and is achieving targets to grow, it's a different story. Click here to continue...
American Creek Resources: Iron Ore, Gold, Silver, Copper: British Columbia, Canada by Allen M. Alper Jr. and Jeff Senior Precious metals exploration company American Creek Resources has exciting times ahead, with two of its properties in particularly promising real potential for a major breakthrough. We caught up with CEO and President Allan Burton, who founded the company after a career practicing law in Calgary. He says: “I started the company with my partner in 2004. We were talking that metals were going to dramatically increase over the next few years. We were right. We went public in 2006 and we’re on the TSX Venture Exchange.” Click here to continue...	Gold Royalty and Shale Oil Companies, Bullion Monarch Mining and EnShale Inc.: A Winning Combination by Allen M. Alper Jr. and Aaron Hoos Investors love investment stories about mining companies being in the right place at the right time. They also love investment stories about mining companies that build on past successes to create brilliant opportunities for the future. Click here to continue...	Alhambra Resources Ltd.: Gold and More Gold out of Kazakhstan by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Bryan Martin Tucked away at this moment in the wind-whipped and frigid north-central steppes of the largest landlocked country in the world, a junior mineral explorer steadies itself in preparation for what it believes will become a remarkable year. Indeed, Alhambra Resources Ltd.’s current operations in the Republic of Kazakhstan are focused in a region known for its world-class deposits of gold, not to mention oil and gas. Click here to continue...
Copper, Gold, Uranium, Molybdenum: Polar Star Mining: Excelling in Chile by Allen Alper Jr. and Aaron Hoos While a lot of the companies we interview here were often started by people who have only ever worked in the mining industry as geologists, it's interesting to get a different perspective from time to time. Click here to continue...	Gold and Silver in Northern Mexico: Golden Goliath by Allen M. Alper and Jeff Senior Unlike many junior exploration companies that have options to earn an interest in one or more small properties, Golden Goliath has 100% ownership of an entire mining camp. Click here to continue...	Plato Gold: Developing Gold Properties in Timmins Ontario, Val d’Or Quebec and Santa Cruz Argentina by Allen M. Alper Jr and Jeff Senior Plato Gold Corporation (TSX, V: PGC) is a junior Canadian exploration company, based in Toronto that was formed by President and CEO Anthony Cohen in 1995 when he first became involved in the mining business. Click here to continue...
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