A new resource estimate for Tournigan Gold Corp.'s (TSX.V: TVC) Kuriskova project saw the company's stock jump 34.8% to $4.03 on Monday.

The President of Mongolia, Nambaryn Enkhbayar, met with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and British Minister for Trade, Investment and Foreign Affairs, Ian McCartney on April 16th and 17th. On the agenda was discussion about Mongolia continuing to create favourable conditions for foreign investment, particularly in the mineral industry.

An astute investor once said, "If it's not grown, it has to be mined." It's a phrase of gigantic proportions and far-reaching consequences, when you think about it. From the knob on your television to the zipper in your trousers, most of what we possess was first explored for, extracted from the earth, smelted and finally manufactured. As such, mining is, next to agriculture, the oldest of mankind's industries.

Zappa Resources (TSX.V:ZPA) is a junior resource company with projects in Canada, the U.S. and now, Tunisia.

Katherine Young of the Resourcex Investor spoke to Stephen Bailey, Senior Vice President of Frontier Strategy Group - a global research and advisory firm that specializes in analyzing above-ground risks in natural resources industries - about what juniors can do to reduce political risk to their projects.

The political or "above-ground" risks that concerned multinational corporations in the past usually involved expropriation and nationalization, currency inconvertibility and war or civil unrest. While it is true that these risks still necessitate concern, relative to other types of above-ground risk they are occurring less frequently.