A grassroots company no longer, porphyry deposits have encouraged Yale Resources Ltd. (TSX.V:YLL) to expand its La Verde land package in Mexico by 400 hectares. Often a holy grail for explorers, porphyry deposits – all the way from Alaska to Chile – make for great exploration targets. They are typically low grade, promise immense tonnages and create your “As Seen on Google Earth”, open-pit mines.

Teryl Resources Corp. (TSXV: TRC) operates within the intelligent realm of closeology and superlatives in Alaska and Arizona. By closeology I mean, of course, that the company is exploring for gold and copper very close to existing or previously producing mines. By “superlative” I mean that these mines are exceptionally large and profitable.

Kootenay Gold (TSX.V:KTN) is a company with a sound strategy for dirt, explosives and gold. Notice how the company describes its approach: To create generative exploration discoveries, establish junior venture partnerships and acquire advanced stage projects.
Clearly, Kootenay is strategic in its effort to find minerals and see projects grow and flourish. Kootenay’s teams are actively exploring in BC and Mexico to find resources that could become a real resource and mine.

There’s an old Venezuelan proverb that says “Join with good men and you will be one of them.” ValGold Resources’ (TSX.V:VAL) management team appears to have taken this piece of wisdom to heart as the company embarks on an ambitious drill program at the Chicanan West Complex located approximately 50km northwest of the Kilometre 88 gold camp in Bolivar State, Venezuela.

Junior exploration company PMI Gold Corp. (TSXV: PMV) has added a fourth past producing mine to its portfolio in Ghana’s famous Ashanti Gold Belt. The new concession is located just twenty kilometers away from Anglogold Ashanti’s 55 million ounce Obuasi mine and is within southwest Ghana’s Golden Triangle, which has combined current reserves and historical gold production of over 170 million ounces.

Gold rose in Asia, nearing a 16-month high, as the US dollar traded within half a cent of its record low against the euro, boosting the appeal of the precious metal as an alternative investment.

As a director of Montello Resources (TSXV: MEO), a financial journalist and seasoned stock speculator, Marc Davis doesn’t get particularly caught up in the excitement of most oil & gas drill projects any more. But there are rare exceptions.

ValGold (TSX.V:VAL), is a Vancouver-based international mining development company focused on the exploration of high-value targets in a portfolio of properties in the Guiana Shield of South America.

Africa, besides being the cradle of civilization, is also host to some of the world’s oldest and richest gold mines. Ngwenya Mountain in Swaziland hosts what is believed to be the world’s oldest mine, where early man mined hematite and specularite over 42,000 years ago.

Determining the absolute timing of mineralization is a critical, but problematic, aspect for understanding the origin of metallic ore deposits—the ore minerals in these deposits are not amenable to direct isotope dating using common methods.

YAMANA GOLD INC. (TSX:YRI)(NYSE:AUY)(LSE:YAU) today (August 14) announced that it has increased the cash component of its offer to acquire all of the outstanding common shares of Meridian Gold Inc., waived the due diligence access condition and extended the offer deadline to September 7, 2007.

The delivery, manipulation and assembly of functional materials such as metal nanoparticles into predefined architectures and patterns is of great interest in nanotechnology.