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Bandera Gold Updates on Drilling Progress at Belmira Project in Colombia

Bandera Gold (TSX VENTURE:BGL), has provided shareholders with this update on the progress of the first ever drilling program at our Belmira project in Colombia.

3 Mar 2011

Alturas Minerals Options to Acquire La Corina Copper-Gold Project in Chile

Alturas Minerals Corp. (TSX VENTURE:BVL)(BVLAC:ALT) has reported that it has entered into an amendment to the purchase agreement with the vendors of the La Corina property originally signed on April 28, 2010, pursuant to which the Company has the option to acquire a 100% interest in the La Corina copper-gold project, located 70 kilometers northeast of La Serena in Region IV of northern Chile.

3 Mar 2011

Stroud Resources Announces Exploration Program at Santo Domingo Silver Project, Mexico

Stroud Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:SDR) has announced the 2011 exploration program is underway at its' Santo Domingo Silver Project, North of Guadalajara, Mexico.

3 Mar 2011

Newcastle Minerals Receives Drilling Results from Mollie River Property

Newcastle Minerals Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:NCM) has announced that it has received results from First Lithium Resources Inc.'s drill program on Newcastle's Mollie River Property located approximately four kilometres east of Trelawney Mining and Exploration Inc.'s Chester Gold Complex in northwestern Ontario. First Lithium has an option to earn up to a 75% interest in Newcastle's property.

3 Mar 2011

Balmoral Resources Encounters High-Grade Gold at Martiniere Project in Quebec

Balmoral Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:BAR) announced today that the first hole of its winter 2011 program on its wholly owned Martiniere Project, located along the Detour Lake Gold Trend in Central Quebec, has intersected three high-grade gold bearing intervals within a 72.00 metre wide gold zone which returned an average grade of 2.40 g/t gold.

3 Mar 2011

Rye Patch Gold Intersects 31.754 G/T Gold Over 2.1 Metres at Wilco Project

Rye Patch Gold Corp. (TSX VENTURE:RPM)(OTCBB:RPMGF) has reported additional assay results from the on-going 2011, core drilling campaign on the Company's 100% controlled Wilco project.

3 Mar 2011

Democratic Republic of Congo to Lift Mining Ban

The Democratic Republic of Congo is going to lift the ban on mining in the eastern sector in March 2010. The Mines Minister Martin Kabwelulu said on Tuesday that the ban on mining activities and exports that was applied to North Kivu, South Kivu and Maniema would be lifted.

2 Mar 2011

Miners Bring Economic Boom to Western Australia

Western Australian finances have gone from a deficit to an opening surplus of $1.1 billion piggybacking on the higher royalties for iron ore this year. The strong earnings from the mining sector have shown the surplus for the first six months of the 2010-11 financial year.

From BHP Billiton Plc 2 Mar 2011

Papua New Guinea Approves World’s First Deep Sea Mine

The government of Papua New Guinea has decided to go ahead with the world's first deep sea mine despite protests from local advocacy groups. The company Nautilus Minerals has been granted a licence in January this year to extract gold and copper from the sea floor.

2 Mar 2011

Australia's to Earn $215 Billion from Mineral and Energy Exports Next Financial Year

In the next financial year Australia will earn $251 billion from commodity exports as per the forecasts from the federal government. With the mining boom looking good for another decade and the prices for farm goods like wheat, cotton and sugar rising the export earnings for the country will most likely rise by 9% compared to the last financial year.

2 Mar 2011