Mining

Abacus Mining and Exploration Corp.

Abacus Mining is engaged in the exploration and development of multiple smaller copper porphyry bodies in the Afton Mining Camp of British Columbia, Canada. The DM/Audra, Rainbow, and Ajax deposits have a total NI 43-101 compliant resource of 543 million pounds of copper and 267,000 ounces of gold indicated and 1.3 billion pounds of copper and 1.16 million ounces of gold inferred.  The project has significant infrastructure in place, which will allow for quick development and lower costs. 

Adanac Molybdenum Corporation

Adanac Molybdenum Corporation is a British Columbia based junior mining company that is focusing its molybdenum mining efforts in British Columbia, Canada. The company aims at becoming the first successful publicly traded primary molybdenum producer in 20 years.

Alberta Star Development Corp.

Alberta Star’s Eldorado-Contact Lake landholdings total over 93,000 acres and encompass five former uranium and silver producing mines.  They have identified numerous uranium and silver prospects on their property, and are also exploring for a large IOCG system. 

Avino Silver & Gold Mines Ltd.

Avino Silver & Gold Mines Ltd has a long mining history.  The Avino Mine in Mexico produced 16 million oz of silver, 100,000 oz of gold, and 24 million pounds of copper over 27 years.  Significant exploration targets on the property indicate potential for resource delineation and future production in the near-term. 

Bard Ventures Ltd.

Bard Ventures Ltd. is a Vancouver based metals exploration company focusing exploration and development in British Columbia. The company’s flagship properties are the Lone Pine Molybdenum project, and the Wasi Creek Zinc Lead Silver project, both located in central B.C., Canada.

Bell Resources Corporation

Bell Resources Corporation holds a number of early to advanced stage exploration properties in the United States and Canada.  Their most advanced property, Granduc, is a historic copper producer and has a historic resource estimate (non 43-101) of 9.9 million tonnes grading 1.84% copper, with potential to expand the resource greatly.

Bralorne Gold Mines Ltd.

Bralorne Gold Mines has assembled the largest past producing gold mines in Western Canada into one land package.  They are focusing their efforts on delineating resources in under explored regions of the property and putting the mine back into production. 

Canadian Zinc Corporation

Canadian Zinc owns the Prairie Creek Mine, an advanced stage development project with a large silver, lead, and zinc resource.  This property can be put into production quickly and cheaply upon receipt of final permits.  However, the permitting process has caused significant time delays, due, in part to controversy surrounding the project from First Nations and environmental groups and the cumbersome structure of the regulatory process in the Northwest Territories. 

Carmax Explorations Ltd..

Carmax Explorations is exploring the Eaglehead property in British Columbia and the Whiskeyjack property in Northern Ontario, Canada.  The Eaglehead property has historic estimates totaling approximately 55 million tonnes grading 0.4% copper not including molybdenum, gold, and silver credits in three mineralized zones.  We believe, significant exploration potential still exists on the property.      

Castle Gold Corp.

Castle Gold is producing from the 100% owned El Castillo Gold Mine in Durango, Mexico and the 50% owned El Sastre Mine in Guatemala.  The company’s strategy, pioneered by experienced management, is to start with small, low cost heap leaching operations, build resources and grow production out of cash flow.  Advanced exploration to define a NI 43-101 compliant resource estimate at La Fortuna is underway.   

Cloudbreak Resources Ltd.

Cloudbreak Resources is delineating resources on two copper porphyry/skarn deposits on the Sarp property in northwestern Turkey.  The company has an option to earn 65% interest in this property.  The Derekoy porphyry has a historic resource estimate of 221 million tonnes grading between 0.24 –0.27% copper, and Ikiztepe Hill has a historic resource estimate of 13.5 million tonnes grading 0.52% copper and 0.05% molybdenum. 

Columbus Gold Corp

Columbus Gold and its exploration team, Cordilleran Exploration Company (Cordex), are focused on the generation of successful mining prospects in the western United States.  They are largely focused on gold in Nevada, and are utilizing a joint venture model to minimize risk and dilution while advancing many properties.  To date, the company has successfully joint ventured 11 of its 25 properties to major and junior mining companies.  CGT  is conducting drilling on 2 properties in 2007. 

Commerce Resources Corp.

Commerce Resources Group is an exploration and development company with a particular focus on tantalum and rare metal deposits with a potential for economic grades and large tonnages.

Consolidated Spire Ventures

Consolidated Spire Ventures holds interest in three early to mid stage gold and silver exploration projects in British Columbia, Canada and Mexico.  The company is exploration focused and aims to explore their properties to advanced stage and option them to other companies for feasibility and production. 

Continuum Resources Ltd.

Continuum Resources Ltd. (CNU) is a Vancouver based junior gold company that is focusing its exploration efforts in southern Mexico. The company’s strategy is to apply modern exploration models and technologies, in areas that have seen past precious metals production.

Coral Gold Resources Ltd.

Coral Gold Resources holds a large land position in the prolific Battle Mountain-Eureka Gold Trend, Nevada.  Nevada is the world’s third largest gold producer and the potential is still great for exploration on this trend.  Coral Gold has identified a 1.1 million ounce resource near the surface and are targeting possible gold mineralization at depth. 

Creston Moly Corp.

Creston Moly Corp. owns 100% of the El Creston deposit in northern Sonora, Mexico.  This advanced stage project has a NI 43-101 compliant resource estimate of 169 million pounds of molybdenum indicated, and 141 million pounds of Mo inferred, which will be upgraded in September 2008, based on a recently completed infill drilling program.  Economic studies are underway, and we believe the aspects of the project are good, due to the project’s accessibility, infrastructure, and potential for expansion.  

Desert Gold Ventures Inc.

Desert Gold Ventures Inc. is a junior exploration company focusing its exploration and development in the prolific gold belts of Nevada. The company’s flagship property is the Goldbanks project, located 55km south of Winnemucca, Nevada.

El Nino Ventures Inc.

El Nino Ventures Inc. is funding exploration to earn a 50% interest in the advanced stage Bathurst Zinc Project from Xstrata Zinc.  The joint venture is exploring for a large VMS deposit to extend the mine life of Xstrata’s Brunswick #12 Mine past 2010.  El Nino is drilling their large landholdings in the DRC Copperbelt, and exploring for zinc and lead in Ireland.   

Explor Resources Inc.

Explor Resources Inc. is a Quebec based mineral exploration company that has assembled a portfolio of grassroots and early stage exploration drilling properties in Ontario, Quebec, and Saskatchewan. The company is focused on the exploration of gold and base metals in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt.

Explorator Resources Inc.

Explorator Resources is focused on the El Espino-Venus project in north-central Chile.  This project has a delineated resource of 165.361 million pounds of copper and 68,000 ounces of gold indicated, and 1.184 billion pounds of copper and 539,000 ounces of gold inferred.  There is potential for significant high grade oxide copper resources, which offer near term production potential, and longer term, the delineation of 150+ million tonnes of sulfide copper-gold mineralization amenable to open pit and bulk tonnage underground extraction.    

Formation Capital Corporation

Formation Capital has three separate strategies: the development and production of the Idaho Cobalt project, the exploration of precious metals and uranium properties in North America, and the revenue generating operations of the Sunshine Precious Metals Refinery, which processes client material. 

Frontier Pacific Mining Corporation

Frontier Pacific is focused on developing the Perama Gold deposit in Greece, and is also exploring for uranium in Peru and gold in Colombia.  The Perama deposit has a NI 43-101 compliant resource estimate of 1.36 million ounces of gold and 3.1 million ounces of silver in the indicated category.  This deposit is attractive due to its low costs and low stripping ratio.  Permitting is the final step to bringing this project into production, and the company believes that permitting will be received in Q2-2008.

Garson Gold Corp.

Garson Gold was formed through the amalgamation of Piper Capital and Garson Resources, who jointly owned the New Britannia Mine.  This property operated as recently as 2005, and the entire mining infrastructure is still in place.  The company is conducting an exploration program to outline additional resources and put the New Britannia Mine into production as quickly as possible.  Drilling results at the #3 Zone thus far have been positive. 

Gemcom Software International Inc.

Gemcom “GCM” is a global, customer-driven company that provides software and related services to the mining industry.  Products are used in a wide range of mining applications from production performance management to resource modeling and mine design. The company’s Mine Production Management Solutions are tailored to mining operations helping increase productivity, reduce risks, and maximise profitability.

GLR Resources Inc.

GLR Resources is currently in the final stages of a feasibility study on their 100% owned Goldfields Property in Northern Saskatchewan.  They have financing for mine development secured, and could be in production in late 2008, or early 2009, if their feasibility study is completed within the currently expected timeframe.

Golden Chalice Resources

Golden Chalice Resources has a strong portfolio of 35 properties focused on large discoveries in Ontario, a world-class mining district.  The company is exploration driven and discovery focused.  The Langmuir deposit represents a new nickel discovery with excellent accessibility and infrastructure near Timmins, Ontario. 

Golden Goose Resources Inc.

Golden Goose Resources is simultaneously advancing two advanced stage assets towards production.  The Magino project is a former gold producer with a NI 43-101 compliant resource of 500,000 oz of gold and further potential at depth.  The Lac Levac project is a nickel target with a NI 43-101 compliant resource of 1.25 million tonnes of ore grading 0.89% Ni in the indicated and inferred categories.  Resource expansion is ongoing at both properties in 2007 and 2008. 

GoldRea Resources Corp.

Goldrea Resources Corp. (GOR) is a junior mining company which has signed a Letter of Intent to acquire the Shandong Daye Gold mine in China.  This is an operating mine with infrastructure already in place.  Goldrea is currently conducting a drilling program to outline an economic gold resource.

Grenville Gold Corporation

Grenville Gold is pursuing advanced exploration projects with significant evidence of mineralization in South America to bring their resources to NI 43-101 compliance and eventually production.  They aim to put three properties into production over the next four years.  Several of their properties have historic resource estimates and historic production.

Hemis Corporation

Hemis Corporation is exploring for gold in Mexico and Alaska.  The El Tigre property is a gold, copper, and molybdenum breccia target in Sonora, Mexico.  The company identified several mineralized zones in their 2007 drilling program.  The Anchor Point property is an offshore placer gold target in the Cook Inlet of Alaska.  Early stage exploration is underway.   

Hudson Resources Inc.

Hudson Resources is focused on diamond exploration in West Greenland. The company has a direct 100% interest in a 733 sq. km property in the Sarfartoq region, near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland. It has a further 80% interest in an additional 765 sq. km. via a joint venture with New Millennium Resources NL.

ICS Copper Systems Ltd.

ICS Copper Systems holds a 70% interest in the Mokambo Mine, one of the few remaining copper deposits in the Central African Copperbelt.  The long-term growth potential is good, as a large sulphide resource could be exploited following the open pittable oxide mining. 

Independent Nickel Corp.

Independent Nickel Corp. is working to reopen the Lynn Lake Nickel Mine to exploit resources that were subeconomic when the mine closed in 1976.  This former producer has a NI 43-101 compliant resource estimate of 16.1 million tons grading 0.7% nickel and 0.35% copper measured and indicated, and 4.6 million tons grading 0.6% nickel and 0.3% copper inferred and is currently in prefeasibility. 

Kingsman Resources Inc.

Kingsman Resources (TSX.V: KSM) is exploring its Snowshoe Property in the Boundary Mining District of Southern British Columbia.  They are currently drilling six targets identified through an electromagnetic survey.  The property has Eocene aged mineralized veins, which have produced millions of ounces of gold in this region. 

Klondex Mines Ltd.

Klondex Mines is a B.C. company engaged in acquiring, exploring and developing gold and silver properties in Nevada.

Lateegra Gold Corp.

Lateegra Gold Corp owns five properties in Ecuador and Mexico. They are focusing on the Picacho and El Condor properties, both with significant evidence of economic mineralization. The Picacho property is already in production, and the El Condor property hosts geology and mineralization very similar to successful gold targets adjacent to the property.     

Manson Creek Resources Ltd.

Manson Creek Resources Ltd. is a Calgary based junior precious/base metals and uranium exploration company focusing its exploration in British Columbia, the Yukon, and Saskatchewan. The company’s strategy is focused on creating shareholder value through the early acquisition and development of quality properties that have undiscovered resource potential.

MBMI Resources Inc.

MBMI Resources Inc. is a junior exploration company with a portfolio of 8 nickel laterite projects in the Philippines. The company intends to operate a series of  contiguous Small Mining Licenses to produce Direct Shipping Ore (DSO). Over time, the company intends to consolidate the projects into a single larger mine site which could include a processing facility.

Megastar Development Corp

Megastar Development Corp. is a Vancouver, Canada based mineral exploration company, that has assembled a portfolio of 4 properties with gold and VMS (mainly Cu and Zinc) exploration prospects in Quebec and B.C. All projects cover a range of development from grassroots to advanced stage containing a pre NI 43-101 resource estimate and historic production.

Merrex Gold Inc.

Merrex Gold Inc. is focused on two advanced exploration properties: the West Mali Gold Project in West Africa, and the Jubilee Zinc-Lead Project in Nova Scotia, Canada.  The Jubilee project has good infrastructure, high-grade zinc and lead mineralization, and a NI 43-101 resource estimate of 3.1 million tonnes grading 3.81% zinc and 0.89% lead.  The West Mali Siribaya Gold Project represents a large new gold discovery in a prolific mining district. 

Mesa Uranium Corp.

Mesa Uranium is exploring for uranium in the Lisbon Valley Mining District of Utah, the largest uranium producing area in the United States.  They are exploring the under explored northeastern fault block of the Lisbon Valley Fault, which is believed to host similar mineralization that has produced 78 million pounds of uranium in the district.  They drilled the property in 2006, and have a number of targets that remain to be tested.    

Mindoro Resources Ltd.

Mindoro Resources has over 20 exploration projects covering more than 55,000 hectares in the Philippines.  The company holds a very large land position targeting district scale epithermal and porphyry projects.  They also have a 75% interest in the Agata nickel laterite project, which they hope to produce DSO ore from by 2008.  The Philippines is a country of great mineral wealth that has seen a mineral exploration revival in the last 3 years. 

Molycor Gold Corporation

Molycor Gold Corp holds 5 molybdenum/precious metals properties in British Columbia and 5 gold properties in the Battle Mountain-Eureka Trend of Nevada.  The company is actively exploring the Crowrea and Empress properties in British Columbia, and continues exploration in Nevada. 

Monument Mining Ltd.

Monument Mining is focused on epithermal gold deposits in Malaysia.  The company is planning to put the Selinsing property into full production by Q2-2009, while continuing exploration at Selinsing and Buffalo Reef.  Selinsing has a NI 43-101 compliant resource estimate of 231,000 ounces indicated and 388,000 ounces inferred.  Buffalo Reef has a historic resource estimate of 155,800 ounces historic indicated and 29,600 ounces historic inferred. 

Murgor Resources Inc.

Murgor is advancing the Hudvam, Wim, and Fon deposits.  All three properties have NI 43-101 compliant resource estimates. The company recently announced a significant increase in resources at its Hudvam and Wim properties. They also hold two large grassroots exploration properties in the Flin Flon Greenstone Belt.  The company hopes to be in production in 2009. 

New Guinea Gold Corp.

New Guinea Gold (NGG) is focused on a number of properties in Papua New Guinea.  They plan to be in production on their Sinivit property in April 2007, and will utilize revenues to fund exploration on its other key properties.  The company is planning to spin off seven of its properties into two separate entities in 2007. 

Norsemont Mining Inc.

Norsemont Mining Inc. holds two key properties located in Peru, South America and is exploring for copper, gold, silver and molybdenum. The company’s flagship property, the Constancia property, has an initial NI-43-101 compliant indicated resource estimate of 749 million lbs plus an inferred resource of 1.23 billion lbs of copper.

North American Gem Inc.

North American Gem Inc. is a junior exploration company based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, holds various properties in B.C and Alberta, targeting Uranium, Molybdenum, Gold, Copper and other Base metals. The company’s flagship property, The Louise Lake Property in British Columbia, has 43-101 compliant resource estimates.