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BCGold Updates on Exploration at its Copper-Gold Properties

BCGold Corp. (TSX VENTURE:BCG)(PINK SHEETS:BCGOF) has provided an exploration update.

1 Feb 2011

Hana Mining Reports First Locked Cycle Test Results from Ghanzi Project

Hana Mining Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:HMG)(FRANKFURT:4LH) has announced results on the first locked cycle tests on sulphide material from the Chalcocite Zone at the Ghanzi Project.

1 Feb 2011

Adroit Resources to Drill Extra 1,000 Meters at Red Vein Property

Adroit Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:ADT)(FRANKFURT:A7V)(BERLIN:A7V) Drilling Progress, Second Drill on Site. Management has announced that the initial 2,000 meter drill programme has been increased to 3,000 meters by awarding a 1,000 meter contract to Laframboise Drilling Inc. to drill the extra 1,000 meters.

1 Feb 2011

Continental Nickel Receives RC Drilling Results from Nachingwea Project in Tanzania

Continental Nickel Limited (TSX VENTURE:CNI) announced today that it has received the final assay results from a reverse circulation drilling program completed as part of the 2010 exploration program on the Nachingwea Project in Tanzania.

1 Feb 2011

VMS Ventures Announces Latest In-Fill Drilling Results at Reed Lake Deposit in Manitoba

VMS Ventures Inc. (TSX VENTURE:VMS) has announced the latest drill and assay results from the in-fill diamond drill program at the Reed Lake deposit, near Snow Lake, Manitoba, Canada.

31 Jan 2011

Strategic Energy Resources Starts Drilling Myall Creek Copper Project

Drilling has begun at the Myall Creek project owned by Strategic Energy Resources on 29 January 2011. The poor weather had been the cause of delay of the drilling for some months now. Three drill holes will be dug in the week long program and the results would be in by the end of the first quarter.

From Strategic Energy Resources Ltd 31 Jan 2011

Afghanistan Sitting on $3 Trillion Worth of Minerals

Wahidullah Shahrani, the Minister of Mines for Afghanistan, said that geologists have found mineral deposits worth $3 trillion in the country. These untapped mineral deposits have the potential to drive the economic growth of the nation and also solve its unemployment problem.

31 Jan 2011

African Queen Mines Receives Analytical Results from King Solomon Project in Mozambique

AFRICAN QUEEN MINES LTD. has announced that it has now received from Genalysis Laboratories of Johannesburg, S.A. analytical results from the remaining 16 drill holes from its initial reconnaissance core drilling program at The King Solomon Project, located within the central parts of the Mesoproterozoic Fingoe Belt in western Tete Province, Mozambique.

31 Jan 2011

Ivanhoe Australia Receives $30 Million Capital Approval for Kulthor, Osborne Development

Robert Friedland, Chairman, and Peter Reeve, Chief Executive Officer of Ivanhoe Australia Limited (TSX:IVA)(ASX:IVA), announced today that $30 million of development capital has been approved for the Kulthor/Osborne development on the company's Cloncurry district tenements in Queensland.

31 Jan 2011

Peru Looks to Increase Mining Taxes

In Peru the presidential candidate Alejandro Toledo said that the mining companies need to give more of the revenue they generate to support the nation’s social programs.

30 Jan 2011