Volume 98 Number 7 Apr 2 - 8, 2012

Stock Markets/Investing April 2, 2012

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A headframe at Claude Resources' Seabee gold project, 125 km northeast of La Ronge, Saskatchewan. Photo by Claude Resources

News April 2, 2012

Claude ups inferred resources by 236%

Claude Resources’ (CRJ-T, CGR-X) shares gained 17% a day after the miner updating its gold reserves and resources on its wholly owned Seabee gold operation in Saskatchewan.

Drillers at work at Riverstone Resources' Karma gold project 100 km northwest of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Photo by Riverstone Resources

News April 2, 2012

Volta, Riverstone striking gold in Burkina Faso

Toronto-based Volta Resources (VTR-T) and Vancouver-based Riverstone Resources (RVS-V) are separately hunting for gold in the landlocked West African country of Burkina Faso.

Mining the Toro deposit at Lachlan Star's CMD gold mine in Andacollo, Chile, 350 km north of Santiago. Photo by Lachlan Star

Financial Matters, M&A April 2, 2012

Junior miners and explorers cashing up

Junior explorers launched substantial financings when the networking-heavy Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada convention wrapped up in Toronto.

A leach pad, tailing ponds and other processing facilities at Silvercrest Mines' Santa Elena gold-silver mine in Hermosillo, Mexico - one of Sandstorm Gold's producing gold streams. Photo by Silvercrest Mines

News April 2, 2012

Sandstorm Gold a rising star in commodity-stream financing

Sandstorm Gold (SSL-V) is not an exploration or operational mining outfit. The company is not interested in spending equity capital on surface exploration, drill programs or environmental-impact studies. Instead, Sandstorm took the idea of…

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