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Kinross Gold Corporation
TSX:K; NYSE:KGC
Kinross, a Canadian-based gold mining company, is the 4th largest primary gold producer in North America and the 8th largest in the world. With 9 mines in Chile, Brazil, the United States, Canada and Russia, Kinross employs more than 4,700 people. Kinross maintains a strong balance sheet and a no gold hedging policy. Kinross is focused on the strategic objective of maximizing net asset value and cash flow per share through a four-point plan built on delivering asset performance; best talent, best teams, building blocks for the future; and driving future value. Kinross maintains listings on the Toronto Stock Exchange (symbol: K) and the New York Stock Exchange symbol: KGC). www.kinross.com
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Ascendant Copper Corporation
TSX: ACX
Ascendant Copper Corporation (TSX: ACX) is a mineral exploration and development company responsibly advancing the Chaucha and Junin copper-molybdenum projects, in Ecuador, toward a verifiable economic base-metal discovery. Ascendant has a solid asset base, proven management, and is committed to becoming a mid-tier copper producer with its joint venture partner Antofagasta PLC and its strategic alliance with Rio Tinto. www.ascendantcopper.com
Bayswater Uranium Corp.
(TSX.V: BAY)
Bayswater Uranium Corp. is a Canadian based exploration company with a large, highly prospective and diverse property base. As the only uranium explorer to have major landholdings in each of Canada's most important producing and exploration regions - the Athabasca Basin, the Central Mineral Belt, the Thelon Basin and the Hermitage Belt - Bayswater Uranium Corp. is well positioned to be a market leader in uranium exploration. Recently, Bayswater Uranium announced a merger with Kilgore Minerals Ltd. The combined corporate entity will create a major player in the uranium exploration sector highlighted by large, strategic exploration-landholdings in major uranium districts in Canada, the largest uranium producing country in the world; and by advanced uranium properties in the United States with approximately 10 million pounds of historical uranium resources having near term production potential and substantial upside for discovery.
Bayswater combines the experience of its technical and managerial teams with a large, highly prospective and diverse property base.The result is a Super Junior uranium companyTM with the share liquidity and market capitalization to provide value to both the retail and institutional investor.
www.bayswateruranium.com
Speaker: George Leary, President, CEO and Director
Buffalo Gold Ltd.
(TSX.V: BUF.U)
Buffalo Gold Ltd., headquartered in Vancouver, Canada is actively engaged in exploring and developing mineral properties in Australasia. Buffalo blends a strong managerial team combined with experienced and innovative geologists. The Company targets early stage prospects through to advanced deposits with defined resources.
Buffalo flagship project is the Mt. Kare gold property in Papua New Guinea, which is contiguous to Barrick's Porgera Mine property where current reserves and resources along with past production total more than 28 million ounces of gold. The various styles of mineralization identified at Porgera are very similar in geological setting and structural controls to those identified at Mt. Kare. An extensive work program and pre- feasibility report are underway and Management is optimistic about the prospect of developing this project.
Buffalo is also exploring a highly prospective portfolio of properties in Australia which include targets for gold, uranium and nickel. Recently, Buffalo Gold expanded into China, with a friendly merger with Dynasty Gold Corp, a leading exploration company in China, with a portfolio of three highly prospective projects in strong Sino-Foreign joint venture companies.
www.buffalogold.ca
Speaker: Brian McEwen, President and COO
Christopher James Gold Corp.
TSX.V: CJG
Christopher James Gold Corp. (TSX.V: CJG) is a Canadian mineral exploration company. The Company holds interests in a large portfolio of gold projects in British Columbia, Nevada, and Mexico. Most notably, it has the exclusive option to acquire 100% of Guardsmen Resources Inc., a private company that owns a number of highly prospective properties in the Toodoggone mining district in north-central British Columbia, including the high-grade Ranch gold project. www.christopherjamesgold.com
Copper Fox Metals Inc.
TSX-V: CUU
Copper Fox Metals Inc. (TSX-V: CUU) is a resource company developing one of the largest copper/gold deposits in Canada. The Schaft Creek mineral deposit has a world class indicated resource of 8.6 million ozs Gold, 9.15 billion lbs Copper, 620 million lbs Molybdenum, and 82.4 million ozs Silver. There are 1,595 million Tonnes of Resources in total. With a pre-feasibility study currently underway, the company is quickly moving the Schaft Creek deposit into production by 2011. Copper Fox has an option to acquire Teck Cominco's 93.4% interest in the Schaft Creek deposit. www.copperfoxmetals.com
Crosshair Exploration & Mining
TSX-V: CXX
Crosshair has developed into a dominant junior mining company exploring for uranium in the Central Mineral Belt of Labrador, while continuing to advance its gold and Volcanic Massive Sulphide (VMS) projects in Newfoundland. As exploration advances within the Crosshair camp along with various other camps in the area, the Central Mineral Belt is fast emerging as the next big uranium district in Canada.
The company's mandate is the creation of shareholder wealth through the exploration of world-class uranium, gold and VMS deposits.
www.crosshairexploration.com
Diamonds North Resources
TSX.V: DDN
Diamonds North Resources’s (TSX.V: DDN) objective is to discover Canada’s next diamond mine, similar to Ekati or Diavik, Canada’s largest and most profitable diamond mines. Over the past four years the company has evaluated over 300 million acres of property in Canada’s North and believes it has targeted three opportunities with this potential, Amaruk, Hepburn and Banks Island. www.DiamondsNorth.com
Speaker: Mr. Mark Kolebaba - President, CEO & Director
Geodex Minerals Ltd.
TSX.V: GXM; Frankfurt: G2W
Geodex Minerals Ltd. (TSX.V: GXM; Frankfurt: G2W) is a Canadian based resource company with a focus on the exploration and development of base metal deposits in New Brunswick. The company’s flagship property is Sisson Brook which contains a large open-pittable tungsten/molybdenum deposit. Geodex is also considered the world’s largest land holder of premium indium exploration properties due to the ownership of their second property, the rich Mount Pleasant Camp. www.geodexminerals.com
Speaker: Chris Anderson VP Business Development and Corporate Communications
Hawk Uranium Inc.
(CNQ: HAWK)
Hawk Uranium Inc. has both direct or option interests in a uranium project in Grand Calumet Twp., Quebec, one gold exploration property in Ontario, one VMS exploration property in Ontario, and a core holding of 3.5 million shares in Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc. (OTCBB: WITM). Wits Basin is currently funding the FSC gold exploration program in the search for a “new goldfield” in the Witwatersrand region in South Africa. Hawk also has a petroleum and natural gas property in Ontario. Hawk holds approximately 2.6 million shares of MacDonald Mines Exploration Limited (TSXV: BMK), which company is carrying out an active exploration program in the McFaulds Lake area of the James Bay Lowlands, the site of a new potential VMS base metal play.
www.hawkuranium.com
Lateegra Gold Corp.
(TSX.V: LRG)
Lateegra Gold Corp. is a mineral exploration and development company with a mandate to build a significant portfolio of advanced exploration and near production properties within the world class potential of Latin America.
www.lateegra.com
Longview Capital Partners
(TSX.V: LV)
Longview Capital Partners is a global resource group. The current portfolio of companies we have founded, developed and invested in now enjoys a combined market capitalization of over $900 million. Our model is to selectively invest in private or undervalued assets, augment management teams with our expertise and assist in the going public process. Once public, Longview Capital Partners continues to invest and brings an awareness of the opportunity to our network of retail and institutional investors. Longview Capital Partners and its founding principals have been central to, and instrumental in, the raising of over $200 million of equity in the last 24 months.
Longview Capital Partners has created Longview Technical, a global group of exploration and mining professionals with world-wide experience in all minerals and all stages of exploration, resource development and mining. Created to serve an existing gap in available technical expertise in this sector, Longview Technical brings together for the first time a network of contacts, project generation skills and operational ability providing Longview Capital Partners with a significant advantage in the resource investment world. www.longviewcp.com
Macarthur Minerals Ltd
(TSX.V MMS)
Macarthur Minerals Ltd is a Canadian listed company (TSX-V) currently focused on the exploration and development of its Lake Giles project located in Western Australia. The area is prospective for significant magnetite iron ore deposits, gold and nickel sulphide mineralization. The company is currently completing Stage 3 drilling, with results expected to be released in late March. Davis Test Tube highlights from Stage 2 drilling included 18 metres grading 70.5% Iron.
www.macarthurminerals.com
Speaker: David Barwick, President
Mantle Resources Inc.
(TSX.V: MTS)
Mantle Resources Inc. is a publicly listed mineral resource exploration company with a 100% interest in the Akie property in British Columbia, Canada. The Akie sedex zinc property comprises approximately 5,400 hectares in the Omineca mining division of British Columbia and is located approximately 280 kilometres northwest of the town of Mackenzie. The property contains a partly explored zinc-lead-silver-barite massive sulphide deposit.
Mining Interactive Corp.
Mining Interactive Corp. offers an exceptionally broad range of integrated investor, media, financial and corporate-communication services. The Company is dedicated to “name-branding” its five Member-Companies and providing them with comprehensive and effective investor-relations programs, based on their specific needs. In addition, MI assists its clients in connecting with the all-important capital markets of Canada, the United States and Europe. MI also establishes relationships for them with newsletter writers and analysts, fund and portfolio managers, brokers, and investors. www.mininginteractive.com
NioGold Mining Corporation
(TSX-V: NOX)
NioGold Mining Corporation (TSX-V: NOX) is a Canadian junior mineral exploration company with a primary focus on gold. The company trades on the TSX-Venture Exchange under the symbol NOX. NioGold has consolidated a large 72 km² land package in the prolific Val- d'Or and Malartic Gold Mining Camps, located in the Abitibi region of Quebec. Historic production from the camps amount to 25 million ounces of gold. The recent acquisitions firmly establish NioGold as a major player in the area. NioGold's land holdings encompass past gold producers and undeveloped gold zones that offer the opportunity to rapidly define mineral resources. The grounds also cover large under-explored sectors located along known mineral trends deemed highly prospective by NioGold for new gold discoveries. www.niogold.com
Northern Canadian
(TSX.V: NCA)
Northern Canadian is a Canadian public company focused on the acquisition, exploration and development of uranium properties world wide. The Company’s exploration programs are headed by Keith Laskowski, a geologist with over 25 years of exploration experience. NCA has a pipeline of uranium projects ranging from grassroots to resource definition. The Company is exploring two projects in the Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan including the CBE Project, located 8 km along trend from the Eagle Point uranium mine on the eastern margin of the Basin and the Canyon Coin project, on the north side of the Basin. The Saskatchewan claims are located on Wollaston Lake in Northern Saskatchewan at the eastern extremity of the Athabasca basin which is the source of 32 per cent of current world production of uranium. The Company also has three properties in southwest Nevada, 80,000 km2 of Prospecting Permits in Mali, West Africa, in addition to six projects in Wyoming and three projects in South Dakota. In Dec 2006, the Company announced an initial resource from the Wyoming Elkhorn project of almost 400,000 pounds of 0.08%.
www.northerncanadian.ca
Oriental Minerals Inc.
(TSX.V: OTL)
Oriental Minerals Inc. is a Canadian-based exploration company exploring for World-Class mineral deposits in South Korea. The Company’s current projects include tungsten-molybdenum, base metal and gold-silver properties with significant known mineralization and excellent regional potential.
Oriental Minerals’ main project is the Sangdong Project. The SangDong Mining Title covers the SangDong tungsten-molybdenum mine, one of the largest in the world when it was closed in 1992 due to low metals prices.
Although previous foreign mining companies have operated profitably in South Korea, currently there is no competing Western or Chinese exploration companies. Oriental has sole access to available opportunities country-wide which facilitates the acquisition of the most attractive projects.
Oriental has assembled a highly skilled in-country bilingual Technical Team and a Board of Directors with a track record of corporate success to maximize its exploration efforts in South Korea. www.orientalminerals.com
Rimfire Minerals Corporation
(TSX.V: RFM)
Rimfire Minerals Corporation is an early-stage gold and silver focused exploration company, trading on the TSX-Venture Exchange under the symbol RFM. Rimfire has 11 active exploration projects in Alaska, BC, Yukon, Nevada and Australia. At least four projects will see drilling in 2007. By partnering with gold producers and high quality junior exploration companies, Rimfire reduces risk, while maximizing discovery opportunities for its shareholders. Management has a solid record of attracting quality partners, with at least three partnerships with each of AngloGold Ashanti, Barrick Gold, Newmont Mining Company and Northgate Minerals. Exploration by Rimfire and its partners is expected to exceed C$9 million this year, with almost 90% of that funded by partners. www.rimfireminerals.com
Romios Gold Resources Inc.
(TSX.V: RG)
Romios Gold Resources Inc. is a progressive Canadian mineral exploration company established in 1995 and headquartered in Toronto Canada. It is actively engaged in exploration and mineral development across North America with a primary focus on gold, silver and copper bearing properties. Romios Gold has significant mining interests in British Columbia, Ontario and Nevada. In 2007 Romios will undertake extensive field work and drilling on its Galore Creek properties in B.C. which are centrally located between NovaGold's deposit and Barrick's rich Eskay Creek mine. This year's intensive drilling and exploration work will help confirm and further improve the property's potential.
www.romios.com
Sabina Silver Corporation
(TSX.V SBB)
Sabina Silver Corporation (SBB:TSX-V) is a Canadian public mineral exploration and development company with assets at the Hackett River silver-zinc project in the Canadian Arctic, the Del Norte project in the Stewart-Eskay Creek Mining District, and several projects in the Red Lake Mining District of Ontario. www.sabinasilver.com
Sherwood Copper Corp.
TSX.V: SWC
Sherwood Copper Corp. (TSX.V: SWC) has 100% ownership of the Minto copper-gold project, located 240 km north of Whitehorse, Yukon. The property hosts a substantial high grade copper-gold reserve, significant additional resources and has tremendous upside potential. A feasibility study completed in July 2006 demonstrated robust project economics and development is fully funded. Construction is nearing completion, with production forecast to commence in mid-2007. Forward sales of copper, gold and silver have been completed, securing substantial revenues, and an off-take agreement was entered into for the sale of concentrates. www.sherwoodcopper.com
Speaker: Stephen Quin, President & CEO
Stornoway Diamond Corporation
TSX: SWY
Stornoway Diamond Corporation (TSX: SWY) is one of Canada's leading diamond exploration and development companies. The Company and its affiliates have been responsible for discovering over 150 kimberlites and six new Canadian diamond districts. Stornoway's management and technical team has a proven track record in wealth creation for shareholders and direct operating experience in each segment of the diamond "pipeline" from exploration to marketing. www.stornowaydiamonds.com
Strongbow Exploration Inc.
TSX.V: SBW
Strongbow Exploration Inc. (TSX.V: SBW) is engaged in the search for economic mineral deposits in Canada. An exploration drilling program is currently underway at the company’s 100% owned Nickel King property, NWT and aggressive programs, including drilling, are planned for its Spences Bridge gold belt properties in southern British Columbia. With $8 million in working capital, Strongbow is well financed to complete these programs. Strongbow is also in the process of spinning-off its diversified Nunavut based exploration properties into North Arrow Minerals Inc. Pending the approval of Strongbow shareholders, this transaction expected to close in early May.
www.strongbowexploration.com
Tenajon Resources
TSX-V: TJS
Tenajon Resources is part of The Northair Group of Companies and is focused on advanced stage exploration projects in Northwest BC. Tenajon has a strong technical and management team, with a successful track record in mineral exploration through to production. The company has several projects with exciting exploration potential, including the World Class Ajax Molybdenum Project and the Kansas Claim Gold Property. Ajax hosts in excess of 679.8 million pounds of molybdenum in the indicated and inferred category. An aggressive 2007 exploration program has been planned with the goal of locating near surface higher grade zones that would be amenable to open pit mining. Tenajon’s joint venture partners recently released an updated resource estimate on the Kansas claim, which is part of the Silver Coin property. Silver Coin hosts 1,370,990 million ounces of gold in the measured, indicated and inferred category of which 77%, or 1,063,529 ounces of gold, is within the Kansas claim. A preliminary economic assessment is underway to evaluate the economics of an open pit at Silver Coin. www.tenajon.com
Speaker: Bruce McLeod, President & CEO
Unor Inc.
TSX.V: UNI
Unor Inc. (TSX.V: UNI) was incorporated in Canada in 1996 as a uranium exploration company. In 2007, UNOR will explore 2.7 million acres for uranium and diamond mineralization an increase of 414% over 2006. The company explores for uranium and diamonds in Nunavut, Canada a stable mining jurisdiction. www.unorinc.com
Ur-Energy
TSE: URE
Ur-Energy is a dynamic junior mining company completing mine planning, baseline studies and permitting activities to bring two uranium deposits in Wyoming into production by 2009. The company is also engaged in the identification, acquisition and exploration of uranium properties in both Canada and the United States. Shares of the corporation trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol URE. Ur-Energy has a registered corporate office in Ottawa, Canada and bases its headquarters in Littleton, Colorado. The company's website is at www.ur-energy.com.
Uranium North Resource Corp.
TSX-V: UNR
Uranium North Resource Corp. is exploring a diverse property portfolio of over 3 million acres in northern Canada. Uranium North is distinguished as the only junior uranium explorer with significant and prospective land holdings including a historic resource in what the Company believes are Canada's three most prospective basins for high grade uranium deposits, the Athabasca, Thelon and Hornby Bay Basins. www.uraniumnorthresources.com