Beiträge von gogh

    "Unter welchen Bedienungen wird DROOY aus der NASDAQ rausgeworgen ? Und wohin geht DROOY dann hin ?"



    DROOY geht vorher in die Insolvenz.


    Da sind kongeniale Kapazitäten am Werk .

    Die Threadüberschrift hat ein anonymer Kenner fürsorglich

    schon unlesbar gemacht.


    Vor ein paar Tagen wurde übrigens gemeldet, dass Porgero

    vom Blitz getroffen zunächst nicht mehr produzieren kann.


    Ein paar Blitzableiter wären nicht schlecht.


    Gogh

    Die Art der Stilisierung, die Patrone wählt, ist nicht jedermanns Sache.

    Die inhaltlichen Aussage trotzdem zutreffend.


    Der- oder diejenigen, die die Thread_Überschriften ergänzen,

    ändern oder sonstwie veredeln, beschädigen das GM_Board.


    Bestenfalls bleiben etliche gleichgesinnte Bauchredner übrig.

    Diejenigen, die überhaupt nichts zu sagen haben, schreiben

    in den hochfrequentierten Amnesie_Threads, z. B.

    "wie geht es auf dem Goldmarkt weiter?".


    Novesia Goldnuss

    Gogh

    Quelle: Mineweb.com
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    Big new zinc/lead/silver mine heads for next stage


    '19-DEC-06 09:00' GMT



    LONDON (Mineweb.com) --Major Australian headquartered zinc, lead and silver miner and smelting company, Zinifex (ASX: ZFX) has


    announced that the pre-feasibility study on its Dugald River zinc project in Queensland, Australia,


    has been completed successfully. The company will now proceed with a full feasibility study with a view to establishing a new mining operation to produce some 200,000 tons of zinc in concentrate a year.


    Zinifex’s Chief Executive Officer, Greig Gailey said “We are delighted that Dugald River has taken the next step to becoming an operating mine in 2011.”
    “If developed, Dugald River would increase Zinifex’s zinc concentrate output by a third and is a key component of our strategy to vigorously grow our
    mining business,” he said. “It would also extend Zinifex’s mine life well beyond 2020.”


    Located near Cloncurry in North-West Queensland, Dugald River is one of the world’s largest undeveloped deposits
    with good grades of zinc, lead and silver.



    According to Mr Gailey, “It is conveniently located close to power, water and transport infrastructure thus reducing the cost of developing the mine.”


    “You cannot ignore the fact that most undeveloped zinc ore bodies are in much more challenging places.” he said.


    The pre-feasibility study concluded that Dugald River is amenable to mining with conventional underground mining techniques and high metal recovery
    rates are expected to be achieved with standard crushing, grinding and flotation processing.


    “Importantly the pre-feasibility study found that there is a ready market for Dugald River zinc concentrate.
    Previous concerns that manganese in the concentrate would be an issue have diminished,” Mr. Gailey added.


    The full feasibility study is expected to take 18 months to complete at a
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    cost of approximately $25 million.
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    Dugald River is estimated to contain a resource of 47.9 million tonnes


    grading 12.1% zinc, 2.1% lead and 44 grammes per tonne silver.
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    The proposed mining rate would be 2 million tonnes per year giving it a 16 year mine life.
    Annual output is estimated to be some 200,000 tonnes a year of zinc, 40,000 tonnes of lead and 1.5 million ounces of silver in concentrates –


    a major operation by any standards.


    The preliminary estimated capital cost of bringing the mine to production


    is put at less than Aus$500 million (around US$390 million) and


    operating costs are expected to be around the same as at the


    company’s existing Australian mining operations.

    Quelle: MINEWEB.com


    High grade gold intercept in Tanzania’s Tulawaka area
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    '18-DEC-06



    BLANTYRE (Mineweb.com) --


    Tanzania Royalty Exploration has announced that one of its royalty partners,
    MDN Northern Mining
    has made a significant gold discovery on one of its prospecting licenses


    in Tanzania’s Tulawaka area. Tanzania Royalty Exploration (TSE:TNX,


    AMEX:TRE) is a unique, publicly-traded financial gold company whose business strategy is to acquire royalty interests in gold production from its core assets in the Lake Victoria greenstone belt (LVGB) of Tanzania where a reported 40 million ounces of gold have been discovered since the mid-1990's.


    Tanzania Royalty Exploration is presently the largest landholder in the LVGB - one of the most prolific goldfields in the world. Established producers in this belt rank within the lowest percentile globally in terms of cash production costs.


    MDN Northern Mining (TSX: MDN) is a Montreal-based Canadian
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    exploration company that holds a 30% interest in the Tulawaka gold mine (Tanzania), a majority interest in 25 adjacent mineral licenses in Tanzania, a majority interest in one license in Eritrea, and other gold and base metal exploration interests in Quebec, Canada.


    A press release issued by the company says Rotary Air Blast (RAB) drilling in the Mnezeki area returned one of the highest grade gold intercepts reported from the region in recent years: 30.08 g/t gold (0.88 oz/ton) over 6.0 metres (19.7 ft) from 41 to 47 metres (134.5 -- 154.2 ft.) down hole. The fact a RAB drill rig was utilized for this phase of drilling precludes the accurate determination of true width and orientation of the mineralized intersections.


    "These results confirm that our criteria for selecting properties and royalty partners within the Lake Victoria Gold Belt are sound from a business and technical perspective and we expect to see many more discoveries like this in the future," said Tanzanian Royalty Chairman and CEO, James E. Sinclair.


    According to the release, the drill programme has been stopped because of heavy rains currently being experienced in this east African country. The drilling will however resume early 2007 following a thorough reassessment of all existing data.


    “The high grade target area is located 20 kilometres east of the Tulawaka Gold Mine which is owned by Barrick Gold (70 percent) and MDN (30 percent),” reads part of the press release. “MDN is earning a 100 percent interest in this particular property in exchange for work and other commitments including a sliding scale Net Smelter Royalty payable to the Company upon commercial production.”


    It says samples were analyzed by fire assay at the SGS laboratory in Tanzania, certified under international standards. “A rigorous programme of analytical grade verification implemented by MDN Northern Mining included 12% control samples. The drilling was carried out under the management of geologist Brian Lloyd, and supervised by geologist Dominique Fournier, Ph.D., who acted as a qualified person in accordance with NI 43-101.”


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    Vorsicht: Kenne die Aktie nicht; nur als Erinnerungsposten
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    18 December 2006


    Wits Basin: Recent assay results confirm high-grade silver-lead-zinc at Vianey, Mexico


    Source: Press Release



    Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc. (OTC BB:WITM.OB – News) has recently received assay results from its joint venture partner Journey Resources Corp. that confirm high-grade silver-lead-zinc potential on its Vianey Project, Guerrero State, Mexico. The assay results are attached as Exhibit A.


    Although sample details are pending, eight selected samples from veins exposed on surface assayed in the following ranges: 8.7-147.9 ounces per tonne (opt) silver (Ag), 3.2-17.9% lead (Pb), 1.5-22.2% zinc (Zn). At current metal prices, these eight samples have an average calculated gross value in excess of $1,400 per metric tonne.


    In addition, although sample location details are pending, six selected samples from the -75 meter level of the Vianey Mine assayed in the following ranges: 3.3-67.5 ounces per tonne (opt) silver (Ag), 1.8-27.1% lead (Pb), 3.5-25.5% zinc (Zn). At current metal prices, these six samples have an average calculated gross value in excess of $600 per metric tonne.


    These assay results are significantly higher than the previously announced average grade of the current resource of 345,020 metric tonnes grading 8.6 ounces per tonne (opt) silver (Ag), 2.1% lead (Pb), 3.6% zinc (Zn). At current metal prices this resource has a calculated gross value in excess of $300 per metric tonne.


    Wits Basin management believes these recent assay results are extremely encouraging. It is notable that these new results provide confirmation for the high-grade assays announced in the Company's news release of December 4. This news release reported on assay results from the -75 meter level of the Vianey Mine that calculated gross values at current metal prices in excess of $1,000 per metric tonne.


    About Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc.


    We are a minerals exploration and development company holding interests in five exploration projects and currently do not claim to have any mineral reserves on any project. Our common stock trades on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board under the symbol "WITM."

    SPIEGEL ONLINE - 17. Dezember 2006, 13:06


    URL: http://www.spiegel.de/reise/aktuell/0,1518,455045,00.html


    RAUBÜBERFÄLLE IN SÜDAFRIKA


    Welle der Kriminalität erreicht Nationalparks


    Schrecken im Tourismusparadies: Nach mindestens fünf bewaffneten Raubüberfällen im südafrikanischen Krüger-Nationalpark hat die Verwaltung die Sicherheitsmaßnahmen drastisch verstärkt. Touristengruppen wurden auch am Tafelberg und in einem Township bei Kapstadt ausgeraubt.


    Johannesburg - Zur Weihnachtszeit hat die Behörde im Krüger-Nationalpark die Sicherheitsmaßnahmen im Park und der Umgebung des Kapstädter Tafelbergs verschärft. Nach Angaben der Zeitung "Saturday Star" reagiert die Parkbehörde mit ihren verschärften Sicherheitsmaßnahmen auf mindestens fünf bewaffnete Überfälle im Krüger-Nationalpark innerhalb der vergangenen zwölf Monate sowie den jüngsten Überfall am Tafelberg. Dabei wurden in der vergangenen Woche drei ausländische Touristengruppen überfallen und ausgeraubt.



    Kapstadt: Südafrikas Diva
    Fotostrecke starten: Klicken Sie auf ein Bild (6 Bilder)


    "Dieses Jahr haben wir eine Zunahme an Raubüberfällen an den Eingangstoren (zum Krüger-Park) erlebt", sagte Behördensprecherin Wanda Mkutshulwa. Touristen seien dabei bisher nicht zu Schaden gekommen. Auch der rund um Kapstadts Wahrzeichen gelegene Naturpark am Tafelberg sei Ziel von Kriminellen. "Da das Verbrechen innerhalb der Stadt eskaliert, ist auch der Nationalpark betroffen", erklärte sie. In einem bei Kapstadt gelegenen Township wurden Anfang Dezember zwei ausländische Touristengruppen ausgeraubt.


    Der US-Botschafter in der Kap-Republik, Eric Bost, warnte erneut vor Auswirkungen auf die Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2010 in Südafrika. "Ich denke, es ist noch immer ein Problem", erklärte er der Zeitung "Sunday Independent". Bost hatte bereits vor drei Wochen vor den Folgen der hohen Kriminalität auf die WM 2010 gewarnt.


    Der Hafenstadt Durban haben Tourismusunternehmen nach mehreren Überfällen auf europäische Urlauber bereits mit Boykott gedroht, sollte sich die Sicherheitslage nicht deutlich verbessern.


    abl/dpa

    Explorer fixiert auf eine Fundstelle im Norden Kolumbiens hoch in den Anden.

    So ziemlich alle Risiken, die man sich denken kann, kommen beim

    Grauen Star zusammen.

    Politisch, zu Chavez kongenialer Irrer soeben zum Regierungschef gewählt (Morales).

    Man ist fündig, aber mit Low Grade ca. 1,3 - 1,5 g/t.

    Die MKP ist hoch, ganz grob 0,5 Milliarden Can$.

    Alles Gründe das Weite zu suchen.


    Stattdessen vor kurzem Einstiegsdroge gekauft

    Gruss

    Gogh

    Wer das Goldfields Umtauschangebot ignoriert und

    seine WAR Aktien vorzieht, dem droht Knüppel aus

    dem Sack: Nachschusspflicht fuers desolate hedge book

    und Einzug der Kosten fuer Reparatur am Schacht

    sowie eine Übernachtungswoche auf der tiefsten Sohle.


    Au- Wei-A, der Hahn hat dicke Eia


    gogh





    Gold Fields may delist Western Areas
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    Quelle: miningmx.com Thu, 14 Dec 2006
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    [miningmx.com] -- GOLD Fields may apply to delist Western Areas, the 47-year old company for which it tabled a $1bn share offer earlier this year. This was after capturing about 82% of the company including acceptances from Harmony Gold, which owned 29% of Western Areas and 5% shareholder, the Government fund management company, PIC.



    In order to 'squeeze out' extant minority shareholders, Gold Fields would have to control about 94.1% of Western Areas.


    One fund manager not yet to have tendered his company's shares is Piet Viljoen of Regarding Capital Management (Re:Cm) which owns about 5% of Western Areas.


    He said that Re:Cm continued to assess its position: 'Liquidity is not an issue for us, and it never has been.


    "It's a question of whether there's value in having a stake in Western Areas, and whether Gold Fields will allow to accrue to all shareholders over time." he said. "So, we've still not made up our minds," he said.


    "This delisting will have severe implications for the liquidity of Western Areas stock," Gold Fields said in an announcement. There would also be funding obligations if Gold Fields were not to establish 100% control of the company.


    This included the possibility that minority shareholders would have to
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    contribute their share of R1.6bn in capital required for the mine and the
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    hedge book financing between 2007 and 2011, the company said.
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    In 2007 alone, some R300m was required to finance premiums payable on Western Areas hedge book, said Gold Fields. Western Areas owns 50% of the South Deep mine, a 28 million oz gold resource west of Johannesburg.


    Gold Fields said that assuming the mine achieved planned build up of 300,000 tons/month by 2012, and given certain price and currency considerations, it is likely Western Areas will become cash positive, notwithstanding its hedge commitments.


    However, the required funding shortfall over this five year period is some R1.6bn," the company said in its announcement.


    John Munro, business development director for Gold Fields, said the announcement was necessary to jog the memories of "moms and pops" shareholders before they headed off to their holidays.


    "We've found that residual shareholders have a poor understanding of the process and they think they've accepted already," he said. "Then they find they're part of a company they didn't want to be in," he said.


    "We want to get this tied up and start putting the mine back on track. It's had quite a history," he said.

    Weiss der Henker, ob da irgendwann mal was draus wird.


    Ist auf jeden Fall ein steiniger und langer Weg.

    Hab mir kuerzlich ein paar zugelegt.


    gogh




    Press Release Source: SLAM EXPLORATION LTD.



    SLAM Exploration drilling Nepisiguit deposit
    Thursday December 14, 9:25 am ET



    MIRAMICHI, NB, Dec. 14 /CNW/ - SLAM Exploration Ltd. (TSX-V: SXL - News; "SLAM") announces that drilling is underway on its wholly owned Nepisiguit zinc-lead-copper-silver deposit located 20 km west of the Brunswick No. 12 mine in the Bathurst mining camp of New Brunswick. Three holes will test the Nepisiguit A deposit for a total of 500 metres.
    ADVERTISEMENT


    Previous workers reported up to 12.86% zinc, 2.91% lead, 0.39% copper and 2.43 oz/ton silver over 2.86 metres from four holes completed in 1994 at the Nepisiguit A zone. Core intervals ranging up to 8.94% zinc, 2.34% lead, 0.4% copper and 2.43 oz/ton silver over 9.75 metres were also reported by earlier workers. Approximately 20 holes to date have tested the "A" zone over a strike length of 550 metres and to a depth of 200 metres.


    The exploration program at Nepisiguit is funded in part by a $30,000 grant from the New Brunswick Junior Mining Assistance Program. The drilling program is designed to test the Nepisiguit A deposit for grade and thickness but also to determine the potential below previous intercepts. This initial drilling program is a step toward the eventual calculation of an indicated resource at Nepisiguit. The strategy at Nepisiguit is consistent with the Company's goal to expand its zinc-lead-silver inventory to add to the increasing resource at the Nash Creek deposit.


    The Nepisiguit property comprises 67 claims covering 1072 hectares of favourable volcanic stratigraphy in the Bathurst Mining Camp in New Brunswick. In addition to the A zone, the property also hosts the Nepisiguit B zone and the Swamp Lake base metal occurrence.


    SLAM exploration manager, Derek F. Brown, P.Geo. has reviewed the above information and is the qualified person responsible for the accuracy of the technical and historical information pertaining to the Nepisiguit deposit.


    SLAM Exploration Ltd. is a mineral resource company based in Miramichi, New Brunswick. The Company is 100% owner of the Nash Creek zinc-lead-silver deposit. In addition, it owns the Nepisiguit A, Nepisiguit B, Ahearn, Strachens East and Strachens base metal deposits within the world class Bathurst mining camp. SLAM also holds the right to earn 100% interest in 2063 claims centered in the Bathurst Mining camp. The Company holds varying interests in four gold properties in the gold producing Uchi sub-province of northwest Ontario.


    Additional information about SLAM and its projects is available at http://www.slamexploration.com

    Da mag sich jeder seinen eigenen Reim drauf machen


    gogh



    Zitiert aus SIEGEL Investment vom 13. 12.06


    "Bei den Produzenten bricht Emperor bei einem Umsatz von 4,4 Mio


    Aktien um weitere 14,3 % auf nur noch 0,18 A$ ein. Wir stellen Emperor


    bei unter 0,22 A$ zum Kauf, so daß die aktuelle Verkaufspanik


    antizyklisch genutzt werden kann, um Bestände aufzubauen. Bitte


    beachten Sie dabei, daß ein Investment in Emperor erhebliche Risiken beinhaltet."

    South Africa: Sayers Appointment Lifts Spirits At Ailing DRDGold



    Business Day (Johannesburg) December 12, 2006



    SOUTH African and Australasian gold producer DRDGold's shares reacted positively to the announcement yesterday that it had appointed a chartered accountant to head the company, which could signal a new direction for the future.


    The shares traded almost unchanged between 646c and 650c in morning trade from a previous close of 650c, but this was a good signal because they usually closely track the gold price, which had fallen almost 2% to $625/oz and more than 2% to R141 706/kg by midday.



    DRDGold's shares have lagged other gold producers in the past two years because of operational problems. Last year it liquidated its North West operations in SA after the mines, which were already making losses, were hit by a major seismic event.


    This year it has battled to turn around its Fijian mine, Vatukoula, and recently announced it had put the operations on care and maintenance. The group has not paid a dividend for several years. The group said chief financial officer John Sayers (pictured) had been appointed CEO to succeed Mark Wellesley-Wood from January 1.


    Wellesley-Wood will become chairman of DRDGold SA, the group's South African division housing Blyvoor, Crown and ERPM.


    DRDGold SA's black empowerment partners, Khumo Bathong Holdings, who nominated Wellesley-Wood for chairman, have increased their stake in DRDGold SA to 20% from 15%. Another 6% of DRDGold SA will be put into an employees' trust.


    This will bring DRDGold SA's black empowerment holding up to the 26% required by the Mining Charter by 2014.


    Sayers joined DRDGold SA in September last year. He holds a BSc (Honours) in Econometrics and Statistics and has qualified as a chartered accountant in SA and the UK.


    Before joining DRDGold, he was financial director of Nampak for eight years and previously held the post of financial director of Altron for seven years.



    Although Sayers is neither a geologist, like DRDGold chairman Geoffrey Campbell, nor a mining engineer like Wellesley-Wood, Wellesley-Wood said earlier this year, when he announced his contract at DRDGold had not been renewed, that the role of CEO had changed fundamentally.


    Since the restructuring of DRDGold into a South African and an Australasian division, each with its own operational management, the CEO would need to focus more on issues such as governance, strategy and culture, he suggested.


    Sayers said from Brisbane yesterday that DRDGold had a number of very distinct assets, with good management at the mining level in SA and Australasia, and the company needed to look at those assets. "We have to be objective about the portfolio we carry and look at our capital allocation."

    Räumt ein vom Mining nicht genug zu verstehen.


    Macht aber Nix. Andere Vorzüge kompensieren:

    "... because my background as you know is financial."

    Übersetzt heisst das: ...habe die FiBu selbst fingiert"


    Und wenn alles nicht hilft. Bewetterung runterfahren.

    Seismic Are Us


    Wo wird sonst soviel Laugh and Crime geboten?

    Drooy forever


    Gogh

    [Blockierte Grafik: http://www.kunstfreunde-weimar.de/kusa/web/gfx/bel/ostasiat.jpg]

    Off Topic

    Es ist fuer die Metalle ausschlaggebend, ob China weiter prosperiert.

    Das haengt wiederum davon ab, ob dort aktuell ein Leitmotiv ethischer,

    religiöser oder sonstwie ideeller Art wirksam ist.




    Der Westen hat sich abgemeldet, Folter ist wieder salonfaehig.

    Koennen es die Tigerstaaten bessser, werden sie obsiegen.


    Ethik ist:
    ======
    Konfuzius plus privater Zinkbadewanne


    (Wer das nicht versteht, ist ein guter Demokrat.)


    Guten Abend

    gogh