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Eastmain Gains by Staying the Course and Seizing Opportunities
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Alison Conte
We caught up with Donald J. Robinson, Ph.D., P.Geo., President of Eastmain Resources, to see what’s been happening in the last six months. It’s been a convergence of fine fortune, resulting from good decisions and seizing opportunities, both financially and in the gold fields.
Click here to continue... | Terry Tucker, President and CEO of StrataGold Corporation
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
We recently touched base with Terry Tucker, President and CEO of StrataGold Corporation, and his manager of Investor Communications, Vanessa Pickering, to talk about the happenings at this promising junior exploration company.
Click here to continue... | John R. Morgan President, CEO & Director Infinito Gold
by Dr. Allen Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
A small river called the Infinito runs through North Central Costa Rica and has become the namesake of a gold exploration & development company based in Calgary, Canada, formerly known as Vannessa Ventures.
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Interviews with Exhibitors at the PM 2008 World Conference Washington DC
by Dr. Allen M. Alper, Editor-in-Chief, Metals News
Diversification is the key
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A Visionary in the Mining Industry
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
When it comes
to investing in metals, most people think of gold and silver… but manganese?
Think again! Manganese is the fourth most heavily consumed metal – after iron,
aluminum and copper – but the vital importance of manganese ferroalloys, to a
number of industries, is creating an impressive bull market for savvy
investors.
Click here to continue... | A New Era Dawns for Minera Andes
Allen Ambrose, CEO of Minera Andes, Inc. Interviewed
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
“Minera Andes is an exploration company that’s now transitioned into the realm of a producer,” said Allen Ambrose, CEO, referring to their co-owned high-grade silver/gold mine in southern Argentina, known as San José.
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Interview with Stephen Wilkinson, ValGold’s President, CEO and Director
by Dr. Allen Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
ValGold Resources Ltd. has an impressive portfolio of prime gold properties located throughout the world: in Ontario, Venezuela and Guyana, but Stephen Wilkinson considers the people who make the company go to be ValGold’s greatest asset.
Click here to continue... | Great Western Minerals Poised for Rare Opportunity
by Dr. Allen Alper and Alison Conte
Interview with Gary Billingsley, Chairman, and Jim Engdahl, CEO, of Great Western Minerals
Click here to continue... | Metal Powder Society Names Fellows
by MPIF
APMI International, professional society for the powder metallurgy (PM) industry, has named
Paul Beiss, professor, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany and Pierre Taubenblatt, president, Promet Associates, Highland Park, New Jersey, to the 2008 Class of Fellows.
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Vannessa Ventures Ltd. - Costa Rican Crucitas Deposit Approved for Production
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
The Crucitas Project has the potential of being a low cost gold mine, producing over 82,000 ounces per year, which will be mineable in about eighteen months.
Click here to continue... | PDAC 2008 Toronto
by Allen M. Alper Jr., Dr. Allen M. Alper Sr. and Andrew M. Alper
 Phots from the PDAC international convention and trade show in Toronto, March 2-5, 2008.
Click here to continue... | Notes From the Underground: Mining & Metals in Review
by Andrew M. Alper
 Investing in the world of mining can be like the act of mining itself, without any of the safety reforms that have come into place over the last one hundred years.
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Adriana Accessing Brazil’s Vast Iron Ore Reserves
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Bryan Martin
 Mike Beley and Rick Barclay are brilliant business partners. The two exploration veterans have a wealth of experience as evidenced in Metals News’ recent interview with them.
Click here to continue... | Historic Mining Camp Offers Treasure for Golden Goliath
by By Allen Alper and Alison Conte
Paul Sorbara is a caldera expert. Calderas are the large depressions that remain when magma explodes from a volcano and the cone subsides into a bowl.
Click here to continue... | Growing Gold in Northern Quebec
by By Dr. Allen M. Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
Sitting pretty atop the Malartic Gold Camp in the Abitibi Gold District of Northern Quebec, NioGold Mining Corporation’s flagship properties are undergoing drill programs which should uncover significantly higher resource estimates from an already proven gold camp.
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Eastmain Poised for Progress
by By Dr. Allen Alper and Alison Conte
With Goldcorp increasing its funding in one project, and a new drilling program underway on another, Donald J. Robinson, Ph.D., P.Geo., President and CEO of Eastmain Resources, is riding a wave of fantastic news.
Click here to continue... | NioGold expands its portfolio through the "Valley of Gold"
by Dr. Allen Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
For more than a century, the Val d'Or mining district in Quebec, Canada has produced 25 million ounces of gold. Literally translated, Val d'Or means "Valley of Gold," and NioGold Mining Corporation (formerly known as Moreno Ventures Inc.) is poised to take advantage of a 25 year high in commodity prices as the junior explores this area's hidden treasures.
Click here to continue... | An Interview with President Richard Kern on Golden Oasis Exploration
by By Dr. Allen Alper and Bryan Martin
2008 is shaping up to be an auspicious year for Golden Oasis Exploration. Between its three main holdings — Toiyabe, Lone Ranch and Empress — this bold venture stands to make a significant impact in the precious metals mining world with its anticipated findings next year.
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President and CEO Scott Weekes Talks about Exciting Developments at Redstar Gold
by By Andrew Alper and Bryan Martin
For junior exploration company, Redstar Gold (TSX.V:RGC), raw data has proven to be as good as gold; both figuratively and literally.
Click here to continue... | Scorpio Mining Approaches Production at Nuestra Senora
by Dr. Allen Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
We caught up with Peter J. Hawley, Chairman and CEO of Scorpio Mining Corporation, who gave us an update on the Company's 100% owned Nuestra Senora Silver-Zinc-Lead-Copper project, located in Sinaloa State, Mexico.
Click here to continue... | The World Money Show in Orlando at the Gaylord Palm Resort
by Dr. Allen M. Alper, Editor-in-Chief, Metals News
The World Money Show in Orlando was a great place for investors to meet a huge variety of company experts, global media, world-class companies, software creators, and country representatives.
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Rising Gold Prices Spur Exploration at Coral Gold
by Dr. Allen Alper and Alison J. Conte
When Louis Wolfin founded Coral Gold in 1982, he was looking for something new; a new technology that would extract low grade oxide ore called heap leaching.
Click here to continue... | MetalsNews at Ryans Notes Metallics Meeting, Miami 2008
by Andrew M. Alper
The Ryans Notes 2008 Metallics Meeting discussed the global steel market and trends in raw material supply in today's volatile scrap, pig iron and HBI prices. A panel of representatives from steel mills throughout the world talked about their strategies for purchasing raw materials.
Click here to continue... | Rusoro Knows Mining the Venezuelan Way
by Dr. Allen Alper and Alison J. Conte
Rusoro Mining, a junior gold producer, knows the ins and outs of mining in southern Venezuela, knowledge that has helped them discover more than 5 million ounces of gold in the Bolivar State mining region.
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Banro Corporation
by Dr. Allen Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
Deep in the mountains of the Congo, Banro Corporation controls one of the last undeveloped gold belts in Africa. According to Martin Jones, Vice President of Corporate Development, the company’s four wholly-owned gold projects contain more than 4 million ounces of Measured and Indicated Resources, plus Inferred Resources of more than 7 million ounces.
Click here to continue... | Tyhee Development Corp.’s Projected Future as a Distinguished Precious Metals Conglomerate-An Interview with Dave Webb, President and CEO
by Andrew Alper , Dr. Allen Alper and Bryan Martin
We recently caught up with Dave Webb, president and CEO of Tyhee Development Corp. (TSX Venture, TDC), on the heels of his company’s recent announcement of the completion of their $7.5 million flow-through financing toward the development of their Yellowknife Gold Project.
Click here to continue... | Alexis Minerals Find Gold Mines in Quebec
by Dr.Allen Alper and Alison J. Conte
David Rigg, President and CEO of Alexis Minerals Corporation, has a legacy of experience that is rich at depth, much like the mines he’s spent his life discovering.
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Dr. Ken Z. Cai Chairman & CEO Minco Silver Corporation (TSX: MSV) China’s best-kept secret
by Andrew Alper, Dr. Allen Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
Regardless of the fact that there are no large producers there, China has so many small mines that it is currently the world's third largest producer of silver.
Click here to continue... | Niblack Mining Corp. - Paddy Nicol, Director and President
by Andrew Alper, Dr. Allen Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
Rich in gold, silver, copper and zinc, Niblack's Alaskan polymetallic treasure trove is conveniently located on tidewater on Prince of Wales Island. According to Paddy Nicol, Director and President, this property's position provides year-round access.
Click here to continue... | A Golden Future Lies Ahead for Canyon Resources
by Andrew Alper, Dr. Allen Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
Based in Golden, Colorado, Canyon Resources (AMEX: CAU) has been facing low share prices, primarily due to the credit issues effecting its investors and shareholders.
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Nuinsco and Victory Nickel Demonstrate the Power of Diversity
by Dr. Allen Alper and Alison Conte
It is 9,056 kilometers between Nuinsco Resources’ Diabase Peninsula uranium project in Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin and northeastern Turkey where it is a 50 percent partner with Xstrata Copper on the Berta copper porphyry project.
Click here to continue... | Galway Accelerates Advanced Projects
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Alison J. Conte
When your mining projects focus on metals that have seen price surges of 400 to 500 percent in recent years, investors are apt to take notice.
Click here to continue... | Columbia Yukon Sees Bright Future in British Columbia
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Alison Conte
170 million pounds of molybdenum assets in the ground are like money in the bank to Columbia Yukon Explorations. But the exploration company’s future looks even brighter because it has money in the bank to expand the resource underground, as well as a group of experienced, senior geologists that can stay on top of multiple projects at once.
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Formation Capital Corporation: Cobalt for the Future
by Dr. Allen Alper and Bryan Martin
From a recent interview Metals News conducted with Mari-Ann Green, CEO of Formation Capital Corporation (FCO-TSX), it’s not difficult to see how good old-fashioned initiative and sound corporate policy can work harmoniously to the advantage of not only the company, but for the shareholders and environment as well.
Click here to continue... | PLAYFAIR MINING, LTD.
by Dr. Allen Alper and Holly Spadola
Playfair Mining Ltd., a Vancouver based mining company, continues to advance rapidly towards its goal of becoming one of the world’s principal developers of new high-grade tungsten resources.
Click here to continue... | Historic Tungsten Mine Pays off for Primary Metals
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Alison J. Conte
Paying attention to local myths and legends may have led Primary Metals to a gold property in Portugal, but it was faith in another legend, the 112 year-old Panasqueira tungsten mine, that has led to prosperity.
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Molybdenum and More
by Dr. Allen Alper, Jill Cueni-Cohen
 Located 24 Km outside the town of Atlin, in the extreme northwestern corner of British Columbia in the floor of an alpine cirque, the Ruby Creek Molybdenum Deposit is the second largest known unexploited & proven deposit in B.C.
Click here to continue... | Tiberon Minerals and the Tungsten Market
by Andrew M. Alper
 China’s raw material crunch, limited global supply of tungsten ore concentrates and the great worldwide demand for tungsten products makes Tiberon’s Vietnam Tungsten Property very well positioned.
Click here to continue... | ValGold Resources: The little company that can
by Allen Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
It was two years ago, at the 2005 Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention, when an exciting turn of events put the Vancouver-based junior on the road to becoming one of the biggest landholders in Venezuela and Guyana. According to ValGold’s President, CEO and Director, Stephen Wilkinson, “We were approached by Newmont, because they needed an exploration group of sufficient quality to take on all their remaining assets in Guyana.”
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Mexican Silver Mines - the Newest Pure Silver Company
by Dr. Allen Alper and Holly Spadola
Mexican Silver Mines, LTD., probably the newest pure silver company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange, went public on May 14, 2007. Founded in June 2006, MSM is conducting aggressive exploration programs on their Mexican properties.
Click here to continue... | Titan Uranium Inc. Rockets to Prominence
by Allen M. Alper and Bryan Martin
The clarity of vision of Philip Olson, Chairman and CEO of Titan Uranium Inc., based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, has propelled his junior company’s significance as a competitor in the uranium exploration sector to unforeseen prominence in just a few short years.
Click here to continue... | ACERO MARTIN EXPLORATION, INC.
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Bryan Martin
One word, resourcefulness, frequently flashes to mind while speaking with Donald Gee about his corporation, Acero-Martin Exploration.
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Silver Standard’s Future Shines Brightly
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Alison Conte
Silver Standard Resources (Silver Standard) controls the largest in-ground silver resource of any publicly-traded silver company. With the market for silver remaining strong and opportunities to diversify into new project, Silver Standard’s future shines as brightly as its name.
Click here to continue... | Trade Winds Ventures Flying High
by Dr. Allen Alper and Alison Conte
One of the most basic doctrines in metals exploration has proved a profitable motto for Trade Winds Ventures: “New mines are found close to old mines.”
Click here to continue... | Ron Tremblay, President and Director of Levon Resources, Ltd.
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
We had the opportunity to interview Ron Tremblay, President and Director of Levon Resources, Ltd. Previously a broker and trader with two prominent Canadian securities companies, Tremblay was appointed President of the Vancouver-based junior in October of 2006 at the request of founder Louis Wolfin (CEO and Director) and his son, David (V.P. Finance and Director).
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Minera Andes Inc. Strikes Gold, Silver and More in Argentina
by Dr. Allen M Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
According to Allen V. Ambrose, president and director of Minera Andes Inc., the wild Argentinean countryside reminds him of the way the American West looked a century ago.
Click here to continue... | Rubicon Minerals –The Future is Golden
by Dr. Allen Alper and Anita Verma
With a famous new investor, new properties, and a substantial infusion into its treasury, the new Rubicon has its sights set on the jewel in Goldcorp’s crown, the Red Lake district.
Click here to continue... | Gold in the mountains of Kazakhstan
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
The fall of the Iron Curtain opened up a mountain of possibilities for John J. Komarnicki, Chairman, CEO and Director of Alhambra Resources Ltd.
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Rob McEwen
by Allen Alper and Anita Verma
Is there any truth to the belief that what Rob McEwen touches turns to gold? The high-grade checkmark next to Goldcorp’s ticker symbol more than suggests it, and as US Gold Corporation’s stock soars and drill holes continue to sink, Mr. McEwen may make history repeat itself.
Click here to continue... | Eastmain Resources –Is there another Roberto deposit?
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Anita Verma
For some time we have been following the progress of Eastmain Resources. We are extremely impressed by their management team, technical knowledge, strategic partners, the location of their properties and the geological data that has been collected.
Click here to continue... | Exploration Results Position Ross River Minerals for Partnership
by Allen M. Alper and Alison Conte
Ross River Minerals Inc. is seeking a long term relationship with a major mining company. Objective: a joint venture to accelerate the exploration and development of its El Pulpo copper/gold/silver and its Tay-LP gold projects
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VANNESSA VENTURES LTD
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Anita Verma
Vannessa Ventures Ltd. (TSX-V: VVV) is an advanced gold exploration junior mining company, with offices in Guyana, Costa Rica and its home base Calgary, Alberta.
Click here to continue... | Brazauro Resources Corporation Bounces Back
by Dr Allen M. Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
The future looks bright for Brazauro Resources now that a title dispute over the junior’s promising Tocantinzinho property in Brazil has been resolved, according to Director Leendert G. Krol.
Click here to continue... | Scorpio Mining Corporation : Mexican Silver-Zinc project
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Jill Cueni–Cohen
 I had the opportunity to meet with Peter J. Hawley, CEO and Chairman of Scorpio Mining Corporation at the 2007 Vancouver Resource Investment Conference in January.
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