Boxxer Gold To Begin Drilling Boss Project

Boxxer Gold Corp. (OTC Other: BXXRF; TSX-V: BXX) has received final approval from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to proceed with the proposed 8,000 metre (m) diamond drilling program on its 100% controlled Boss copper-gold porphyry project, located in the Goodsprings Mining District in southern Nevada.  The drill contractor expects that rigs will begin heading to the property following the Labor Day weekend in the United States with drilling to begin immediately thereafter.  As Boxxer looks to test the porphyry copper potential, we expect the news flow this fall to be gangbusters.

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Laurion’s Drill Results at Sturgeon River Include 20.2 g/t Over 0.36 Metres

Laurion Mineral Exploration (OTC Other: LMEFF; TSX-V: LME), as part of its 2010 drilling program, has completed five drill holes along the Marge Vein, where historical trenching and channel sampling had indicated high grade gold.  Results from Drill Hole LME10-01 confirm previous results, including 155 metres of accumulated channel samples which averaged 25 g/t gold over 0.36 metres of vein width (1984) and 47 metres of accumulated channel samples which averaged 17 g/t gold over 0.47 metres (2008).  Significantly, drill hole LME 10-01 reported a high grade gold intercept of 20.20 g/t over 0.36 metres.

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Gold Bullion Expands Long Bars Zone Eastern Extension

Gold Bullion Development Corp. (OTC Other: GBBFF; TSX-V: GBB) continues its Phase 2 drilling to expand the Long Bars Zone Eastern Extension at its 100% owned Granada Gold Property in northwestern Quebec.  To this end, a total of 41 Phase 2 holes have been completed in the Eastern Extension covering an area measuring more than 202,000 square metres.  Visible gold, associated with pyrite and arsenopyrite, has also been observed. 

A total of 17,000 metres of Phase 2 drilling, 85% of the planned program, has now been completed throughout the LONG Bars Zone (Preliminary Block Model plus the Eastern Extension). Mineralization remains open in all directions.  With all of that drilling completed, we expect that the Company will have lots of results to report over the coming weeks and months, beginning possibly the week of September 6th.

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Advanced Explorations to Conclude Deal with China’s XinXing

Advanced Explorations Inc. (TSX-V: AXI) expects to enter into a definitive agreement with XinXing Pipes Group (“XXP”) regarding a strategic investment by October 15, 2010 as a result of XXP’s recently completed review of and site visit to the Company’s Roche Bay project.  The basis of the definitive agreement is a process by which XXP can acquire a substantial direct or indirect interest in the project in exchange for technical and financial support to ensure AEI’s development of the project.

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Avanti Mining: Kitsault Update and Q2 Results

Avanti Mining Inc. (OTC Other: AVNMF: TSX-V: AVT) continues to advance its Kitsault Molybdenum Mine, an update for which includes the following:

Technical

The final feasibility being prepared by AMEC is on schedule for completion by end of October 2010 and will incorporate the US$50 to US $70 million reduction in the initial capital expenditures in the tailing facility as well as other expected improvements from the pre-feasibility study of 2009.

Approximately 90% of the core from old drilling at the Bell Moly deposit has been recovered and is being re logged and re assayed. This deposit has historical unclassified resource of 96.4 million tonnes grading 0.54% molybdenum. (Note: Historic resource estimates do not comply with the CIM terminology under Canadian Securities Administrators NI 43-101 guidelines. The reader is cautioned that these estimates are not mineral reserves and should not be relied upon.)

Several of the drill hole collars at the Roundy Creek deposit have been located and the Company plans a confirmatory drill program this year to twin some of these holes.

Environmental

The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (“CEAA”) has accepted effective August 18, 2010 the addendum to the Kitsault Project Description filed with the British Columbia Environmental Office (“BCEAO”). This acceptance will result in a Notice of Commencement (NoC) to be issued by CEAA within 90 days of August 18, 2010.

BCEAO has circulated a draft section 11 order under the Environmental Assessment Act for comment by all interested parties.

The draft Application Information Requirement (“dAIR”) document will be filed with the BCEAO shortly.

Financing

The Company’s financing strategy includes a potential sale of a minority interest in the Kitsault project to raise its share of equity portion of the capital funding required to rebuild the mine. This strategy, if successful, will be less dilutive to the shareholders than raising the required equity through the public equity markets.  The Company is in discussions with potential strategic partners.

The Company expects to negotiate off-take agreements for future molybdenum production with price protection mechanisms to support the debt component of the capital required. This is being done in conjunction with its debt advisor who has arranged meetings with some of its molybdenum consuming steel clients.

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Top Rated Story: James Turk Predicts $1,800 to $2,000 Gold this Year and $8,000 Gold by 2015

September is almost upon us and historically is the best performing month in terms of the price of gold.  We are hugely optimistic about the yellow metal and its junior counterpart, silver, regarding their performance between now and the end of the year.  With that said, here is a link to a previous post which we think remains quite relevant.

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Potash M&A Mania

VANCOUVER B.C. (www.BNWnews.ca ) – The recent headline-grabbing $39 billion bid by the world’s largest mining company for the planet’s top potash producer appears to be spurring potash-hungry Chinese investment funds into action.

On the heels of BHP Billiton’s (NYSE: BHP) unsuccessful initial takeover offer for Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (TSX: POT) (NYSE: POT) last month, China Mining United Fund has announced a move to more than double its treasury to $760 million. Launched just last year, it is one of China’s first private mining-oriented investment funds.

China and the Long Copper Bull Market

COQUITLAM, BC (AheadoftheHerd.com) – In this author’s opinion, China, and to a lesser extent India and other developing nations, are responsible for the largest and longest base metals bull market the world has ever experienced. Many fear the bull market for natural resources is over when in fact nothing could be further from the truth. This seems especially true of copper because of the supply/demand picture.

Biomoda to Participate in Annual Rodman & Renshaw Healthcare Conference

Biomoda, Inc. (OTCBB: BMOD) will attend and present at the Rodman & Renshaw 12^th Annual Healthcare Conference in New York on Wednesday, September 15, 2010.  John Cousins, the Company’s President and CEO, will talk in length about Biomoda’s proprietary CyPath® diagnostic assay for the detection of early-stage cancers.

Biomoda’s presentatin is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. EDT on September 15 in the Spellman Salon, Fifth Floor, New York Palace Hotel.

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Boxxer Completes Airborne Survey at Gordon Lake

Boxxer Gold Corp. (OTC Other: BXXRF; TSX-V: BXX) has completed a high sensitivity aeromagnetic survey over the Gordon Lake Gold Project located approximately 110 kilometres northwest of Yellowknife NWT.  The purpose of the survey was to map the surface extent of the two parallel gold bearing shear zones that host 17 large zones of gold mineralization. These zones of mineralization are open along strike and at depth.  Results of the airborne survey including total field magnetic, calculated vertical gradient and magnetic susceptibility maps are expected to be received in mid-September.

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