Magnetometer and Gradiometer Resources for Professionals Applying Magnetic Technologies

2006-07-04T12:50:00.001-04:00

Nickel / Copper Exploration – Magnetics for Drill Target Confirmation

Merrex holds a 50% interest in 451 claims comprising approximately 112.75 square kilometres in Labrador. These claims, the West Voisey's Bay Property, are held in joint venture with Celtic Minerals Ltd, the West Voisey's Bay Joint Venture operator. For 2006 the West Voisey's Bay Joint Venture has approved a $3,000,000 exploration programme comprised of geophysics and diamond drilling. This programme is presently underway and is in addition to the approximately $2.2 million that has previously been spent on the West Voisey's Bay Project.

The West Voisey's Bay Property borders Inco's Voisey's Bay property which contains Inco's operational nickel-copper-cobalt mine and a number of advanced exploration targets, including the Reid Brook zone, located 10 km to the northeast of the West Voisey's Bay Joint Venture's main exploration target. In a press release dated June 19, 2006, Inco described its exploration results from the Reid Brook zone as "particularly significant". Over the course of the late spring 2006, the West Voisey's Bay Joint Venture completed infill ground geophysical surveys consisting of Magnetotellurics (MT), UTEM, Gravity and Magnetics over four previously identified target areas. A diamond drill rig has been mobilized to the West Voisey's Bay Property to commence testing the target areas.

The detailed magnetics survey was carried out over the Mak Lake grid which overlaps the areas on which gravity, UTEM and MT were completed. The survey has outlined a magnetic anomaly in direct correlation with the 1.5 kilometer Mak Lake MT conductor and gravity high. This further confirms the significance of the conductor as a priority drill target.

More information is at http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=141255

2006-07-04T12:50:00.000-04:00

2006-06-28T11:04:00.000-04:00

Nickel Exploration - Confirmation of Drill Targets

CALGARY - Celtic Minerals Ltd is pleased to provide an exploration update on its West Voisey's Bay property in Labrador, which borders Inco's Voisey's Bay property. The Inco property contains its operational nickel-copper-cobalt mine and a number of advanced exploration targets, including the Reid Brook zone, located 10 km to the northeast of Celtic's main exploration target.

In a press release dated June 19, 2006, Inco described its exploration results from the Reid Brook zone as "particularly significant". Over the course of the late spring, Celtic has completed infill ground geophysical surveys consisting of Magnetotellurics (MT), UTEM, Gravity and Magnetics over four previously identified target areas. A diamond drill rig has been mobilized to the property to commence testing the target areas.

The detailed magnetics survey was carried out over the Mak Lake grid which overlaps the areas on which gravity, UTEM and MT were completed. The survey has outlined a magnetic anomaly in direct correlation with the 1.5 km Mak Lake MT conductor and gravity high. This further confirms the significance of the conductor as a priority drill target.

More information is at http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/June2006/28/c9631.html

2006-06-27T10:39:00.000-04:00

Platinum / Paladium Exploration – Magnetic Data for Correlation with Exploration Model

Michigan Gold Mining Investments Inc. is pleased to announce it is preparing to test diamond drill its Platinum/Palladium Deadmoose Lake property located in Shillington Township in Northern Ontario.

The property has had a proton-procession magnetometer survey conducted over the entire 600 acres. The magnetic high was located at the west end of the lake and coincides with the rust-stained water from the lake sediments which are near the warm spring that feeds the lake. The working theory (Rapski, 2002) is that the Platinum-related minerals in the lake sediments are being transported up from the warm spring; which the biogeochemical and magnetic surveys seem to confirm.

Hence, MGGV plans to drill three drill holes of 500 feet, on roughly a forty-five (45) degree angle, into the spring's base. The drill holes will be spotted by Mike White BSc, MSc Geology (see Mr. White's resume at www.michigangold.net) and he will personally handle all the core samples until they have been given to an independent assay lab.

More information is at http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=138774

2006-06-27T10:03:00.000-04:00

Molybdenum Exploration – Establishing Local Structure and Ring-Dyke Complex

POINT ROBERTS, WA and DELTA, BC -- www.MiningSectorStocks.com (MSS) and www.Gold-MiningStocks.com , investor and industry portals for the gold and mining sector, announce new featured mining company Globetech Ventures Corp. as they focus on exploring the molybdenum and gold targets on the Gladys Lake Property in British Columbia.

The Gladys Lake property hosts a molybdenum deposit similar in tenor and size to the Adanac Deposit to the south. Adanac Moly Corp. completed a feasibility study on their Ruby Creek property, located approximately 28 kilometers from the Gladys Lake Property, indicating potential production of 68 million pounds of molybdenum over a six-year period.

According to Casey Forward, Globetech's President, "The Company intends to construct a grid over the previously established molybdenum anomaly and relocate and re-evaluate it by taking approximately 600 soil samples. In addition, a magnetometer and low frequency electromagnetic geophysical survey will be done to establish local structure and confirm Amax's ring-dyke complex. After completion, the Company intends to commence diamond drilling."

More information is at http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=138734

2006-06-27T10:01:00.000-04:00

Gold Exploration – Detecting the Presence of Favourable Stratigraphy

Jim Yin PhD, P.Geo. has reported to the Board of Directors of International Wayside Gold Mines Ltd. that a new discovery of gold mineralization has been identified on the Mucho Oro claim directly grid east of the proposed Bonanza Ledge open pit, scheduled for production in 2006 upon regulatory approval.

The Cariboo Gold Project's land holdings cover more than 792 square kilometres (roughly 305 square miles), including 574.8 square km that are controlled by International Wayside Gold Mines Ltd. and 217.4 square km that are controlled by Golden Cariboo Resources Ltd. In the Barkerville Camp, 79 creeks have reported placer gold production. Recorded production from the area is 3.8 million ounces of gold, including 2.6 million ounces from placer and 1.2 million ounces from lode mining.

The NQ drill program was initiated to test a known gold-bearing structure, and favorable stratigraphy east of the Waoming Fault (see News Release NR06-12 April 18, 2006). The drill program has been successful in establishing a correlation between the stratigraphy of the Bonanza Ledge gold deposit (with an approximate 500 foot strike length) and this potentially auriferous (gold bearing) area now identified as the Mucho Oro zones (with an approximate 1,400 foot strike length). A total of 8,670 feet (2,643 meters) in 16 drill holes have been completed and assays have been received for 14 drill holes as part of a continuing and extensive 2006 exploration program. A plan map, sections and a 3D model of the geology can be viewed on SEDAR or at www.wayside-gold.com.

The main structure, known as the "B.C. Vein", has hosted historic gold production. The favorable stratigraphy is that which hosts the pyritic replacement-type gold mineralization in the proposed Bonanza Ledge open pit to the immediate grid west, and is structurally lower than the BC Vein.

Past work in this area includes some drilling, soil sampling, SP geophysics, ground magnetometer and VLF surveys. The SP geophysics outlined a similar signature to that of the Bonanza Ledge deposit and the ground magnetometer survey supported the presence of favorable stratigraphy for replacement type gold mineralization.

More information is at http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=138326

2006-06-08T12:27:00.000-04:00

Copper Nickel - Magnetic Anomalies Coincident with Trenching Results

Noront Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:NOT) wishes to provide the following update on several of its active exploration projects.

Mexico Volcan I Project

2. In Mexico, on Noront's optioned El Volcan copper-nickel property near Todos Santos on the Baja Mexico, a detailed ground magnetometer survey was recently completed and several strong anomalies have been located along a north-south trend where previous trenching in 1968 discovered significant copper-nickel sulphide mineralization across widths up to 16 meters in a series of trenches along a 400 meter strike length.

In 2005 check chip channel samples were taken from the 50 foot trench averaged 2.95% Copper and 0.355% Nickel across 50 feet. Cobalt assays gave values ranging from 230 parts per million (ppm) to 950 ppm (0.095% Cobalt) while Precious Metals (Au, Pt, Pd) assay results gave values up to 0.504 grams per ton. (See press release dated December 19, 2005).

No diamond drilling, to the Company's knowledge, has ever been completed on the project. Before drill testing of the magnetic anomalies is considered, further trenching including resurrection of the old trenches and sampling will be completed as soon as equipment becomes available.

More information is at http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/show.jsp?action=showRelease&searchText=false&showText=all&actionFor=598565

2006-05-31T14:59:00.000-04:00

Nickel Exploration - Prospection for Ultramafic Host Rocks

International Nickel Ventures Corporation is pleased to report on the status of exploration work on its 100%-owned properties in Brazil.

Although limited exploration work was carried out prior to INV having gone public, the full exploration program began in mid-April, 2006. Exploration is focused on aeromagnetic anomalies located in similar favourable ultramafic rocks known to host all of the major nickel laterite deposits in Brazil. To date, INV has identified 24 such targets.

Follow-up is being conducted via ground magnetometer surveys, geological mapping, auger drilling and reverse circulation (RC) drilling. While total expenditures will depend on results, INV expects to spend over US$2 million this year on overall exploration on its 100%-owned claims.

More information is at http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=132274

2006-05-29T09:38:00.000-04:00

Archaeological Prospection - Making the Most of Magnetometry

The prehistoric Native American community that once thrived at Angel Mounds along the Ohio River at Evansville is renowned among archaeologists for the quality of the pottery left behind there.

Now a dig at the state historic site is promising to shed light on how that pottery was made. Last year students doing a small exploratory excavation at the location of the current dig uncovered evidence indicating that a structure there once was used to make pottery. Similar evidence for flint working was found at a different exploratory dig there last year. It was enough to bring Indiana University's Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology back to the site this year to do a larger, more thorough excavation of the potter's house.

"I felt incredibly lucky last year that this was where we chose to explore," said Chris Peebles, director of the lab.

It could have been a bust. The locations were more or less randomly chosen after looking at new maps of the site prepared by Staffan Peterson, a research fellow who has been mapping the site using an imaging device called a magnetometer as a part of his doctoral dissertation. Peterson's work revealed that the grassy fields surrounding the site's 10 mounds were once covered with houses or other structures. Several new sections of a stockade wall that enclosed the town also were identified in his images. Among last year's finds that led IU staff to return for further excavation this year were tools and masses of prepared but unfired clay. It lay buried for centuries beneath the soil waiting to be shaped into a bowl, jar or figurine. "This is the best collection of pottery tools ever found here," Peebles said.

More information is at http://www.courierpress.com/ecp/news/article/0,1626,ECP_734_4733190,00.html

2006-05-29T09:37:00.000-04:00

Archaeological Prospection - Investigation of Historic Mounds

Centuries ago, prehistoric Native Americans built imposing mounds and domelike houses across East Texas. One of those sites is now the Caddoan Mounds State Historic Park where scientists are uncovering the past. Researchers have found a new way to explore beneath the earth without lifting a shovel.

At Caddoan Mounds State Historic Site in Cherokee County, archeologists use new technology to pinpoint the location of structures before ever breaking ground. Like a giant X-ray, the magnetometer searches through acres of earth to uncover the past. "The Caddo people represented the height of the original cultures here in what became Texas … A Caddoan ceremonial village encompasses three mounds, two of which were strictly ceremonial sites. The third was a burial site," site manager Jim Herold said.

The magnetometer saves archeologists from needless excavations, which can destroy sites, take lifetimes and cost millions of dollars. Using it on the 93.8-acre site has been a huge help.
"This is one of the largest, if not the largest magnetometer survey that has ever been done in the United States and possibly the world. And it's just very exciting to get a picture of the whole site, or most of the site, without ever having to lift a shovel. This park is one of the only ones that we have that does concentrate and interpret the archeology and Native American, Indian occupation of the site," archeologist Todd McMakin said.

More information is at http://www.news8austin.com/content/your_news/default.asp?ArID=162979

2006-05-23T13:19:00.000-04:00

Archaeological Prospection - Magnetometry at an Historic Fort

Signs of struggle lie buried under a grassy opening in a mist-shrouded forest of hemlock and spruce.Archaeologists at the Sitka National Historical Park recently unearthed musket shot and cannonballs in this quiet glade where they believe a clan of Tlingit Indians, called the Kiks.ádi, built a wooden palisade fort and held off Russian attackers for six days in October 1804 until their ammunition was spent.

Visiting scientists from the Park Service's Midwest Archaeological Center in Nebraska have been probing the ground with high-tech equipment such as ground-penetrating radar and a magnetometer to analyze disturbances to the magnetic field. They have also dug hundreds of "good old-fashioned shovel holes," said archaeologist William Hunt.

More information is at http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/43877.html

2006-05-15T10:24:00.000-04:00

Gold Exploration – Magnetics and IP for Follow Up

Stealth Minerals Limited has submitted permit applications to the Department of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources in Prince George, BC, for the Company's proposed exploration program for 2006 in the Toodoggone Region in north central British Columbia. The program consists of core drilling on the Louie, FogMess, Sickle Creek and Sofia prospects. Stealth holds a 100% interest in all prospects. The Sickle Creek and FogMess prospects are subject to a 3% NSR.

The FogMess prospect is about 8 kms east of the Kemess South mine and has a similar geologic and structural setting. There are two different but related targets. The prospect has been worked by various operators most notably by INCO in the late 1980s. INCO conducted surface sampling and trenching and completed 5 drill holes. The target was a silver-rich massive sulphide system that proved too narrow to be of interest.

Stealth completed systematic prospecting over the entire claim area including the area worked by INCO. Mapping and sampling in the area stratigraphically above the massive sulphide veins revealed two large-scale sheeted veins systems that were ignored by previous workers. The epithermal veins only yielded low gold and silver values on surface but sampling of the veins at a lower elevation produced samples as high as 49 g/tn gold.

Stealth is planning an initial 2 core holes in each sheeted vein system. In addition, an airborne survey revealed a magnetic anomaly in the valley to the south of the sheeted vein systems. Rock samples in the area revealed elevated levels of higher temperature minerals, such as moly and tungsten along with highly anomalous copper, silver and gold. The airborne anomaly is in an area of dense bush and outcrop is rare.

Stealth is planning ground geophysics including IP and magnetic surveys. The company geologists believe that the geological and geophysical evidence from this area displays the same pattern as much of the Toodoggone where epithermal systems are related to deeper porphyry systems.

More information is at http://www.mineweb.net/co_releases/316283.htm

2006-05-15T09:59:00.000-04:00

Homeland Security – Magnetometers for Tunnel Detection

Dug by hand with the help of rogue mining engineers to link warehouses on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border, it was the longest, deepest and boldest drug smuggling tunnel found to date.

But before the Mexican gang had even punched through a concrete floor to emerge opposite a washroom in a distribution depot in Otay Mesa, California, a crack law enforcement team with expertise honed in the hunt for Osama bin Laden was on their trail.

Little known outside police circles, the Tunnel Task Force came to light with the Jan. 24 discovery of the passageway that was used to haul tons of marijuana almost half-a-mile (800 meters) from Mexico.

Given a stretch of ground, in this instance a strip of churned up clay between twin fences marking the Mexico border, the engineers use geo-science technologies including ground radar, magnetometers and seismic detectors to search for "discreet voids" left by man-made tunnels.

"It's getting to a point where we are planning to build our own tunnels to different depths and specifications to perfect the technologies that we are using to hunt for them," JTFN engineer Lt. Col. Steve Baker told Reuters.

More information is at http://today.reuters.com/News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=N10219397

2006-05-15T09:51:00.000-04:00

Uranium Exploration – Magnetics and Radiometrics for Target Identification

Entourage Mining Ltd. reports that several radioactive targets have been identified by a recent airborne geophysical survey of the Doran uranium property. The Doran uranium property is located in eastern Quebec, immediately north of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, just north of provincial highway 138 about 25 kilometers west of Aguanish, and approximately 85 kilometers east of Havre St. Pierre. Entourage Mining Ltd has an option to acquire 100% interest in the 44-claim Doran property, subject to 2.5% royalty.

A recent airborne geophysical survey of the Doran property by Terraquest Ltd. delineated a large number of zones of anomalous radioactivity, including two zones on which uranium exploration previously had been undertaken. Seven high priority uranium targets and 12 secondary uranium targets have been identified on or adjacent to the 44 Doran claims. Among the high priority uranium targets are the Main Grid and North Zone prospect areas that were investigated by the company during the 2005 field season.

Based on the results obtained from Entourage's initial 2005 program of work and the results obtained from the airborne survey of the property, a second phase work program has been recommended by the Company's management and consultants. The recommended 2006 program will expand technical coverage to include all of the recently identified target areas and will include at least 2000 meters of diamond drilling, geological mapping, rock stripping and rock sampling, and radiometric and magnetometer surveys. This work will help define and measure the sources of strongly anomalous radioactivity and may result in identification of additional uranium prospects.

More information is at http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=128307

2006-05-15T09:46:00.000-04:00

Gold Exploration – Magnetics and IP for Anomaly Definition

Consolidated Spire Ventures Ltd. is pleased to announce the commencement of diamond drilling on the 107 sq. km. Prospect Valley Gold Property near Merritt, BC, part of the Spences Bridge Gold Belt, optioned from Almaden Minerals Ltd.The 2006 Drilling Program has begun and is expected to continue into the fall of 2006.

The first phase of drilling is expected to total 3,000+ metres. Multi target drill holes will range in depth from 100 metres to greater than 400 metres. It is anticipated that the drilling will be completed in several phases. The initial program will test the grade potential of the RM and RMX Zone at depth and along its strike length. The recently completed Induced Polarization (IP) and Magnetometer geophysical field program on the RM-RMX Zone indicates strong resistively and chargeability anomalies coincident with the strong gold-silver in soil geochemistry. The RM and RMX Zones multi-element soil anomaly is about 3,500m by 400m.

More information is at http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/show.jsp?action=showRelease&searchText=false&showText=all&actionFor=594073

2006-05-05T12:56:00.000-04:00

Gold Exploration – Testing Magnetic Linear Features

Prize Mining Corporation is pleased to announce the commencement of the Spring / Summer 2006 exploration and development programs on our Atlin Gold Property, located in northwestern British Columbia. Three target areas on the Atlin Gold Property are currently being worked - these are the Yellowjacket, Gold Run and Rock of Ages Zones.

I. Yellowjacket Zone -----------------

Diamond drilling is continuing on the Yellowjacket Zone. With a view to expanding the gold mineralization on the Atlin Gold Property, diamond drilling of four stepout holes, totaling approximately 600 metres adjacent to theYellow Jacket zone is planned. These holes will test for gold mineralization along strong total field and magnetic susceptibility low trends. These structural trends cut across and may be responsible for concentrating the zoneof high-grade gold mineralization at Yellow Jacket.

II. Rock of Ages Zone -----------------

Diamond drilling is also planned along the strike of the broad silicified pyritic breccia structure located by prior drilling at the Rock of Ages Zone. Eight short drill holes, totaling approximately 400 metres, will be drilled at20 and 40 metre stepouts in either direction from the Rock of Ages shaft. A single deep hole (approximately 200 metres) will be located immediately below the shaft. Four additional drill holes, averaging 150 metres each, are also planned to test strong magnetic low linears, which trend parallel to the PineCreek Fault, within in the Rock of Ages magnetic low anomaly.

III. Gold Run Zone -------------

Peter E. Walcott and Associates have been contracted to complete a ground magnetometer survey. The ground survey will help to define the strong Gold RunZone susceptibility anomaly originally identified by a prior airborne magnetic and electromagnetic geophysical survey. Approximately 45 line kilometres ofgrid will be surveyed. Results of the ground magnetics survey will allow Prizeto better define targets for the initial diamond drill program on the Gold Run Zone.

More information is at http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2006/02/c2798.html

2006-04-11T08:38:00.000-04:00

Diamond Exploration – Magnetics for Delineation of Kimberlites

World Ventures Inc. today announces that it has acquired over 57,000 acres (23,700 hectares) of mineral lands in the vicinity of Fort a la Corne, Saskatchewan, Canada. This large tract is being prospected for gold and diamonds and was acquired based on the results of a preliminary exploration program of the area that the company carried out in 1995 and 1996.

"We are very pleased with the recent resurgence in the price of gold and the exciting news from nearby diamond operations such as that reported by the syndicate of Shore Gold, Debeers and Cameco who are exploring for diamonds in a kimberlite zone. We can now explore the full potential of our holdings," commented Ray Carson, President of World Ventures.

The strong gold market and advances in diamond evaluation from the Fort a la Corne area by Shore Gold Inc., De Beers, and others have prompted World Ventures to follow up its extensive proprietary airborne magnetic survey flown in 1995 and its drilling results from 1996. The Company's program consisted of an airborne and ground follow up magnetometer surveys and two drill holes. The airborne geophysical survey covered an area of approximately twenty miles by sixty miles.

Several "bulls eye" magnetometer targets on the World Ventures holdings are untested and these drilling targets may be kimberlite pipes which are known to host diamond deposits in the region. The two World Ventures drill holes are located 20 miles apart and have identified well mineralized sulfide iron formations that contain some interesting gold values. These properties were acquired as part of World Ventures' overall commitment to gold exploration. The gold and diamonds mentioned above are conceptual exploration targets from previous work and activities in the region. Only preliminary exploration has been conducted on these properties and there can be no assurance that additional exploration will result in the discovery of mineral deposits, but because of the successes by major mining operations in the area and preliminary work done, management at World Ventures is very encouraged.

More information is at http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20060411005267&newsLang=en

2006-04-07T13:26:00.000-04:00

Gold Exploration – Magnetic Destruction Associated with Gold in BIF

Golden Tag Resources Ltd. announces that the program of line-cutting has been completed and surface geophysics is nearing completion in the area of the main Aquilon property, James Bay, Quebec. The program was designed to outline folded banded iron formation horizons using ground geophysics (magnetics) over an area of approximately 10 sq. km. on claims referred to as the Aquilon Extension Property held jointly by Golden Tag (60%) and Sirios Resources Inc. (40%). Due to unseasonably mild weather, thin ice conditions and onset of winter break-up in the region; a planned 1,500 meter surface diamond drilling program to test favourable gold targets has had to be postponed.

The Banded Iron Formation ("BIF") is known to occur immediately southwest of high grade quartz veining documented on the contiguous main Aquilon Property to the north where Golden Tag is earning a 60% interest from SOQUEM and Sirios. The magnetic trend of the iron formation has been previously followed through airborne geophysical surveys through the Aquilon Extension property claims. Upon completion of the surface geophysics program, magnetic data from the new survey will be available for review and processing prior to interpretation.

Golden Tag will review the data so to better evaluate known targets. In analogies with the Musselwhite deposit in north western Ontario and other known BIF-hosted worldwide, gold commonly occurs associated with magnetic destruction (weak magnetic signature) or in cross-cutting structures to the magnetic trends. The program will be adjusted to include summer field verification of the identified targets prior to the planned drilling, which will be undertaken at the first opportunity.

More information is at http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=121920

2006-03-23T08:44:00.000-05:00

Diamond Exploration - Magnetics for Kimberlite Mapping

Pele Mountain Resources Inc. announced today the successful completion of five new drill holes at the recently announced Talisker Diamond Occurrence, located within the Highland Gold Project in northern Ontario. Highland is 100% owned by Pele Gold Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company.

As announced on March 6, a macro diamond bearing mica kimberlite was discovered in bedrock during recent drilling for gold at Highland's Talisker Zone. The mica kimberlite cross cuts the high grade gold bearing shear zone at Talisker and, remarkably, both gold and mica kimberlite have now been intersected within the same drill hole on several occasions.

The five new holes have all intersected the mica kimberlite occurrence, extending its strike length to approximately 250 meters, with a depth of approximately 100 meters with apparent widths of between five and ten metres. The associated magnetic trend is continuous for approximately 700 metres within the preliminary magnetometer survey area and appears to extend along strike beyond the current survey boundaries in both directions.

Pele controls the mineral rights for more than 15 kilometres of continuous potential strike extension along the projected axis of the Talisker Diamond Occurrence. The recently completed drill holes targeted magnetic anomalies identified upon the completion of a preliminary magnetometer survey.

The magnetic signature of the mica kimberlite identified within the drill holes was readily distinguished from its granodiorite host rock. The next exploration phase will include an expanded ground magnetometer survey along the projected strike axis of the occurrence along with continued drilling. Larger diameter drilling equipment has been ordered to collect HQ size core samples to process for diamond recovery.

More information is available at http://www.usetdas.com/TDAS/NewsArticle.aspx?NewsID=5249

2006-03-16T15:28:00.000-05:00

Diamond Exploration - Magnetics and HLEM for Confirmation of Airborne Targets

SouthernEra Diamonds Inc. today provided an update of the Company's worldwide diamondexploration activities. SouthernEra is a leading fully integrated international diamond company and now has one of the world's largest diamond exploration programs after BHP Billiton, De Beers and Rio Tinto.

Against a market backdrop where many existing diamond mines are coming to the end of their useful production lives and where there is increasing global demand for diamonds, particularly from emerging economies in Asia and the Far East, the discovery of new high quality diamond mines is key. SouthernEra Diamonds has intensive exploration programs under way in five of the world'smost prospective diamond producing regions - Canada, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Gabon, Zimbabwe and South Africa. The Company has proven success in these types of undertaking having built and operated two successful diamond mines - Klipspringer and Marsfontein in South Africa.

Within the highly diamond prospective Lac de Gras region of Canada, theCompany's program includes:The Yamba Lake Project, where SouthernEra can earn up to a 65% interest and are the operators, a total of 8 diamondiferous kimberlite bodies have been discovered to date. During 2005 a total of 149.02 line-km of magnetic and HLEM ground geophysical surveys were completed over 26 airborne targets. In addition, a total of 128 till samples were collected to further define four high interest kimberlitic indicator mineral bearing areas. Five targets have been selected for drill testing during the second quarter 2006.

Within the Lac de Gras X-Claims project seven kimberlite pipes have been discovered to date, of which five are diamondiferous. The primary kimberlite sources to kimberlitic indicator mineral trains defined on the property have not yet been discovered. The Company will conduct a high resolution (25m line spaced) magnetometer survey of the entire claim block, particularly focusing on the Diavik(TM) diamond mine kimberlite emplacement structural corridor during March using a sled mounted magnetometer system. Targets generated from the survey will be drill tested during the second quarter 2006.

More information is at http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2006/01/c2782.html

2006-03-16T15:17:00.000-05:00

Gold and Silver Exploration - Magnetics and VLF for Drill Target Selection

Golden Chalice Resources Ltd. is pleased to announce results from its recent drill program in Shillington Township located approximately 24 kilometers northwest of Elk Lake, Ontario. Combined ground magnetometer and VLF surveys have delineated a northwest trending structural corridor that coincides with a number of historical trenches and shafts dating back to the early 1900’s. Earlier workers in the area have reported significant gold and silver showingsoccurring within altered Huronian sediments, diabase dikes and syenite that lie within this structural setting. The area is in close proximity to the famed Gowganda silver camp, second only to the Cobalt area in terms of its silver production. Drill hole targeting was planned based on the investigation of these historic showings combined with magnetometer and VLF anomalies.

More information is at http://www.freemarketnews.com/Press-Release.asp?nid=2595

2006-03-15T12:37:00.000-05:00

Copper Exploration - Coincidence of Magnetics with Geochem Anomalies

Maxy Gold Corp is pleased to announce the completion of a 20 km geophysical induced polarization (IP) and Magnetometer (Mag) survey over its NIUJAOZHAI (NJZ) copper discovery, and the commencement of a drill program based on its successful results. The survey identified a significant high chargeability IP anomaly and resistivity and Mag anomalies coinciding with the copper and gold soil and rock geochemistry anomalies previously obtained.

This further confirms the presence of disseminated mineralization, and increases the dimension of the significant anomaly.The main high-chargeability anomaly measures approximately 2 km x 3 km and shows the location of the most intense anomaly at a depth of 120 meters (m). The center of the anomaly is marked by a zone of low chargeability of about 0.5 km x 3.0 km. The high resistivity anomaly is located in the northwestern corner of the geochemical anomaly and measures approximately 1.5 km X 1.5 km. It also corresponds to a magnetic high.

More information is at http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/show.jsp?action=showRelease&searchText=false&showText=all&actionFor=584224

2006-03-15T10:09:00.000-05:00

Iron Oxide Copper Gold Deposit -- Identification of Main and Secondary Anomalies

Alberta Star has recently identified and outlined several significant new IOCG polymetallic exploration drill targets from its recently completed exploration work along the Contact Lake belt. Helicopter-borne VTEM and TFI (total field intensity) surveys were performed by Geotech during 2005 over an approximate 50-square-kilometre region, totalling 770 line kilometres with 100-metre spacings.

The airborne survey was complemented by a ground-based survey over the K2-J1 region, which is known to contain copper, gold, silver, cobalt and uranium mineralization. The program consisted of line-cutting a ground-based total field magnetic survey and a radiometric total-count scintillometre survey along 100-metre-spaced cut lines with 12.5-metre-spaced stations covering a three-kilometre-by-one-kilometre block along the Contact Lake belt.

The VTEM airborne survey and ground-based magnetic and radiometric surveys were successful in outlining five large strongly anomalous zones with several secondary anomalies. These geophysical anomalies are coincident with extensive areas of exposed IOCG associated hydrothermal alterations, as well as zones of polymetallic mineralization that includes iron oxide, copper, gold, silver, uranium, cobalt and bismuth.

The intensity and regional extent of the anomalies, as well as association with known alteration and mineralization, strengthen the belief of Alberta Star's exploration team headed by Dr. Hamid Mumin that the Contact Lake belt is capable of hosting a potentially economically significant Olympic Dam IOCG-style deposit. The results of the detailed airborne VTEM and ground-based magnetic and radiometric survey results are now available on Alberta Star's corporate website.

More information is at http://www.mineweb.net/co_releases/973399.htm

2006-02-28T09:27:00.000-05:00

Gold Exploration -- Magnetics and VLF

Golden Band Resources Inc. is pleased to announce the drilling results from its 100%-owned Burnt Rock and Half Moon Lake gold prospects. This is the second phase in the 2005/2006 winter drilling program (see previous news release of January 17, 2006). These targets are located three and five km respectively, north-northeast of the Tower East gold deposit.

Thirteen shallow vertical NQ-diameter holes (514.9 m) were completed at Halfmoon Lake and two holes (198.1 m) at Burnt Rock.The third phase of the 2006 winter program drilling, the follow-up of the 2005 results at Birch Crossing has recently been completed. These data are presently being compiled and will be reported in a subsequent news release.The current (fourth) phase of the program is focused in the Dog Creek-area, two km north of the Komis gold deposit.

Ground geophysics (magnetometer and VLF-EM) have been completed over an area containing three gold-in-till anomalies and drilling is proceeding on the third of these three targets. This phase of the winter program is expected to be completed by late February. The final phase - subject to additional follow-up drilling as may be warranted elsewhere - calls for four drillholes in the Kruger Lake area.

More information is at http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/show.jsp?action=showRelease&searchText=false&showText=all&actionFor=581150

2006-02-17T10:23:00.000-05:00

Uranium Exploration - Magnetics for Selection of Priority Targets

Following a presentation to Waseco, management by McPhar Geosurveys Ltd. ("McPhar") on the geophysical surveys and their interpretation of five (5) projects in the Quebec Labrador Trough, Waseco Resources Inc. has staked an additional 35 claims, covering approximately 1,675 hectares.The programs consisted of ground gravity and airborne radiometric and magnetometer surveys at a cost of over $275,000.

As previously reported, McPhar has identified 55 targets on the 5 Blocks. These targets consist of:

27 uranium anomalies (25 high priority, 2 moderate);

21 magnetic anomalies (17 high priority, 1 moderate, 3 low priority);

7 uranium bolder anomalies;

Of these, 12 of the uranium anomalies occur on Block I, and most occur within a shear zone that extends over 7.5 km on the property associated with the Argencourt Fault. In addition, the original reported showings (# 181, 185, 187, and 188, the former two also associated with the shear zone) correspond to showings identified by Eldorado Nuclear in 1979 (catalogued by the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources of Quebec) and also warrant further follow-up. In addition, 7 magnetic anomalies are within this Block and are at or near surface and consistent with a vertical pipe-like intrusion and hence may be kimberlitic in origin.

Rob Hearst, P. Geoph., General Manager of McPhar and a Qualified Person under Policy 43-101, has recommended detailed geological mapping, heavy mineral sampling for diamonds and kimberlite indicators in the circular magnetic anomalies and detailed electromagnetic surveys for conductive sulphide deposits containing copper and gold and/or uranium.

Each of the other 4 properties also contains high priority uranium anomalies. Compilation of the historic geological and geochemical data on the 5 properties is ongoing and further news releases will be made in the normal course.

More information is at http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/show.jsp?action=showRelease&searchText=false&showText=all&actionFor=580222

2006-02-17T10:21:00.000-05:00

Gold Exploration - Magnetics Over Prospects Covered by Water

Stellar Pacific Ventures is pleased to announce the acquisition of a second property in the Opinaca area,James Bay region, Quebec. These new mining titles were staked by the company. Approval by Quebec's Natural Resources Ministry is pending.

The property (Opinaca South Block), which consists of 37 map-designated claims totalling 1924 hectares, is strategically located 2 kilometres south of a previously announced property acquisition (Opinaca North Block), near Virginia's Eleonore's property, where several major gold zones have been discovered. The North Block property is bordered to the north by Beaufield Resources and Azimut/Eastmain, to the east by Everton Resources, to the west by Beaufield Resources.

The main interest of the North Block property consists of its strategic location within a geological-geophysical setting interpreted to be similar to Virginia's Roberto deposit. According to Quebec government report ET2002-06, the property is underlain by sedimentary and felsic intrusive rock similar to those associated with the Roberto deposit. Furthermore, according to various company web sites, numerous gold showings and anomalies have already been discovered on neighbouring properties.

The company initiated its winter program on the Opinaca North Block last week. The program consists of approximately 60 km of line cutting, followed by a magnetometer survey to be carried out on lines spaced at 100 m. This survey should provide the company with precious geological information since the property is largely covered by water. Field mapping is also scheduled for the summer on this block.

2006-01-20T13:46:00.000-05:00

Gold Exploration - Soil Anomaly at Magnetic "Contact"

Douglas Lake Minerals Inc. is pleased to report the transfer deeds have been officially signed, filed and recorded to three Tanzanian concessions giving the Company title to the Prospecting Licenses (as they are called in Tanzania).

The three concessions are located along a newly discovered gold zone in the central eastern part of Tanzania. This zone, which to date has been traced by artesian local miners for over 100 kilometres, occurs in Proterozoic highly metamorphic rocks adjacent to the central Tanzanian Archean Craton. The positioning of the known gold occurrences which occur as both alluvial and in situ rock settings, suggests a structural context and have been tentatively classed as an intrusive related structurally controlled type of mineralization (aka Pogo Type model).

The ASW property located 135 kilometres north of the city of Morogoro, in east central Tanzania, is adjacent to the Anglo Gold Ashanti main property and covers approximately 40 kilometres of the structural zone to the west of it. The Kilometre 7 Property located 165 kilometres north of Morogoro covers approximately 17 kilometres of the structural zone approximately 25 kilometres east of the Anglo property. The Negero (Green Hills) Property is located approximately 150 kilometres north northeast of Morogoro and covers approximately 20 kilometres of the structural zone some 75 kilometres east of the Anglo property.

During the month of November, the properties were visited by the Company's president in a recent expedition to the region to evaluate the preliminary work. This work has consisted of wide spaced GPS controlled traverse lines of magnetometer surveying over the central portion of the Negero Concession (formerly called Green Hills). Subsequent follow up work has consisted of in fill lines of magnetometer and soil sampling (results pending). The focus of interest is a 2-3 kilometre long identified +50 ppb gold soil anomaly in this area which occupies the height of land and is associated with dark red soils.

The preliminary analysis of the results suggests that the soil anomaly is located at the "contact" of magnetically homogeneous rocks to the north and erratically magnetic rocks to the south. Significant alluvial workings are present on drainages that originate from this area and flow north and south of the ridge. During this most recent visit, the alluvial workings to the south, on the company's concession, were observed to cover over 1 kilometre of drainage, with the active area nearest the ridge top (approximately 2 kilometres south of the gold anomaly). Small nuggets of gold between 1-2 millimetres in size, were observed in the fine stream sediments that the local miners were panning.

More information is at http://www.primezone.com/newsroom/news.html?d=92509

2006-01-16T11:57:00.000-05:00

Gold Exploration - Confirming Alteration and Delineating Drill Targets

Cypress Development Corp. announces that the Phase I winter diamond drill program on its 80% owned McKenzie Island gold project located in Red Lake, Northwestern Ontario commenced this morning.

The Company has delineated drill targets from a recently completed, closely spaced Induced Polarization survey (IP) and detailed Magnetometer survey. The surveys have confirmed an extensive geological alteration within an embayment of volcanic rocks to the south and to the west of the gold mineralization (166,000 oz at .53 oz per ton resource estimate) found on the Western Discovery Zone of Southern Star/Exall Resources (SSR/EXL) property.

More information is at http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/prn/texas/3585689.html

2006-01-10T10:58:00.000-05:00

Gold and Platinum Exploration - Development of a Geological Model

ValGold Resources Ltd. announcesthat it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with a group of three private companies under which ValGold can acquire all of the shares of Honnold Corp, a British Virgin Island company that indirectly owns twenty-seven exploration licenses (the "Properties") covering approximately 1,300 square kilometers in Bolivar State, Venezuela. The acquisition will be subject to regulatory and shareholder approval to be sought at a Special Meeting to beheld on or before February 28, 2006.

Previous exploration expenditures on the Properties in the order ofUS$38 million have outlined several occurrences of significant gold and platinum, palladium, nickel, copper and vanadium mineralization, for which ValGold considers the potential for resource development to be excellent.

The principal mineral properties, the Chicanan West and the Chicanan EastConcessions, include the Mochila platinum exploration permits and the Chicanan gold prospects. The concessions adjoin one another and are located in SouthernBolivar State, Venezuela, approximately 50 km northwest of Kilometer 88 and the well-known Las Cristinas gold deposit. Access to the area is by the Cuyuniand Chicanan rivers or alternatively by helicopter.

The concessions are comprised of 25 exploration licenses that cover atotal of 112,858 hectares (45,674 acres) or approximately 1,129 square kilometers. The permits were acquired in 1994 and a joint venture was then formed between Honnold and Gold Fields Limited to explore the platinum potential of the Mochila Complex. A geological model of the complex was made using magnetometer surveys followed by trenching and drilling.

More information is at http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2006/09/c0521.html

2006-01-10T10:53:00.000-05:00

Gold and Platinum Exploration - Development of a Geological Model

ValGold Resources Ltd. announcesthat it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with a group of three private companies under which ValGold can acquire all of the shares of HonnoldCorp, a British Virgin Island company that indirectly owns twenty-seven exploration licenses (the "Properties") covering approximately 1,300 squarekilometers in Bolivar State, Venezuela. The acquisition will be subject toregulatory and shareholder approval to be sought at a Special Meeting to beheld on or before February 28, 2006.

Previous exploration expenditures on the Properties in the order ofUS$38 million have outlined several occurrences of significant gold and platinum, palladium, nickel, copper and vanadium mineralization, for whichValGold considers the potential for resource development to be excellent.

The principal mineral properties, the Chicanan West and the Chicanan EastConcessions, include the Mochila platinum exploration permits and the Chicanan gold prospects. The concessions adjoin one another and are located in SouthernBolivar State, Venezuela, approximately 50 km northwest of Kilometer 88 and the well-known Las Cristinas gold deposit. Access to the area is by the Cuyuniand Chicanan rivers or alternatively by helicopter.

The concessions are comprised of 25 exploration licenses that cover atotal of 112,858 hectares (45,674 acres) or approximately 1,129 square kilometers. The permits were acquired in 1994 and a joint venture was then formed between Honnold and Gold Fields Limited to explore the platinum potential of the Mochila Complex. A geological model of the complex was made using magnetometer surveys followed by trenching and drilling.

More information is at http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2006/09/c0521.html

2006-01-02T10:22:00.000-05:00

Archaeology - Searching for Sunken Steamboats

It’s cold — farm-field-in-December cold — with a numbing wind and with icy mud underfoot.
David Hawley, however, has found a hot spot.

He is looking for the Princess, a buried 19th-century steamboat. His magnetometer, a pole-mounted instrument that measures local magnetic fields, is flashing a number that tells Hawley maybe he’s getting warm.

For the past hour Hawley, stopping at regular intervals within an 80-foot grid, has been writing down numbers within a narrow range, such as 55,268 gammas or 55,283 gammas.

More information is at http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/13491099.htm

2005-12-20T12:17:00.000-05:00

Regional Reconnaissance - Comparison of Airborne and Ground Mag Results

Abstract on the Magnetic Detectability of Ponta Grossa Dyke Swarms: An Integrated Ground/Airborne Magnetometry and Rock Magnetism Study.

Mesozoic Ponta Grossa Arch Dyke Swarms occur between the eastern border of the Parana basin and the southeastern Brazilian continental margin. It comprises of a few to a hundred meters-thick tholeiitic dykes which intrude the Precambrian basement and Paleozoic sediments preferably along the NW direction. Preliminary analysis of aeromagnetic data suggested that these dykes may extend northwesterly towards the center of the Parana basin, under basaltic flows and post-volcanic sediments.

In order to investigate the detectability of these non-exposed dykes by conventional airborne magnetometry, a combined study of ground/airborne magnetometry and dyke magnetism was carried out in the northern part of the Ponta Grossa Arch where dykes are exposed. A total component ground magnetic profile of 16 km in length was set up with an average spacing of 12.5 to 25 m between readings. There is clear correspondence between exposed dykes and short-wavelength magnetic anomalies.

The ground magnetic data were transformed into aeromagnetic data by the upward continuation technique at different heights until it coincided with the altitude of one flight-line of the aeromagnetic survey flown at 450 meters above ground level. This process reveals that most of dyke-generated magnetic anomalies are highly attenuated at altitude as low as 100 m above ground level. At 450 m, only anomalies associated with a group of close spaced dykes or high-amplitude (above 4,000 nT on the ground) magnetic anomaly of a single dyke remain.

The results were integrated with data of magnetization of dyke samples in order to establish quantitative criteria of dyke detectability by conventional airborne magnetometry. For this particular region, it is found that most of the dykes can only be detected by ground magnetic survey due to low magnetization, and small thickness of the dykes. Two additional ground magnetic profiles were set up in the interior of the Parana basin, where dykes are not exposed and the results analysed. They indicate that the Ponta Grossa Arch dykes may extern northwesterly towards the center of the basin, cutting the thick pile of lava flows.

This finding reinforces the geochemical and paleomagnetic evidence that the Ponta Grossa dyke swarms are associated with a late stage or a subsequent technomagmatic event following the main Serra Geral flood basalt volcanism in the southern and central Parana basin.

Revista Brasiliera de Geosciencias. 21 (4): 317 -327. December 1991 y Naomi Ussami, Alexandre Kolisnyk, Maria I. B. Raposo, Francisco J. F. Ferreira, Eder C. Molina and Marcia Ernesto.

2005-12-16T08:52:00.000-05:00

Archaeology - Investigation of Native American Mounds

The mound building Native Americans from the U.S. midwest are often referred to as Mississippian— an Indian culture that lived along the Mississippi River Valley, developing around 700 to 800 AD and lasting until the late 1700's. Unlike the nomadic tendencies that one might associate with Native Americans, the Mississippian Indians were very skilled in agricultural ability, sustaining large communities of people for long periods of time.

One mound site is Angel Mounds— a State Historic Site on the banks of the Ohio River. Upon entering the site of this fourteenth-century walled-town, it seems like the New World equivalent of a medieval European fortress city. Surrounding the town on three sides, with the Ohio River as the fourth boundary, the stockade walls were originally 6,300 feet long and 16 to 18 feet high. Although not nearly as large as Cahokia, Angel Mounds is one of the best-preserved, pre-historic Native American settlements in the United States and was the largest towns of its time in what is now southern Indiana.

The site was named after the Angel Family who settled and farmed in this location along the Ohio River in the early 1800s. With the help of a magnetometer (an instrument that locates structures below the surface by comparing magnetic readings) and combining it with research done at related Mississippian sites, including information gathered from ethno-historic accounts of early explorers and missionaries, archeologists were able to reveal the mysteries of this timeless fortress.

More information is at http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-12-16/35851.html

2005-12-13T16:09:00.000-05:00

Gold Exploration - Magnetics Corroborates Mineralized Trends

Garrison International Inc. is pleased to announce encouraging results from geochemical soil and magnetometer surveys over exploration licenses at their Wutai property, Shanxi Province, China.

Gold geochemical anomalies in soil identify mineralized stratigraphy extending outward from known mineralization at the Dongyaozhuang mine. Magnetometer surveys corroborate mineralized trends outlined by anomalous soil samples, as well as delineating other potentially mineralized zones.

Based on the positive results of 2004 orientation surveys, which were conducted over known mineralization at the Dongyaozhuang mine, a larger scale sampling program was completed in October 2005. This survey tested mineralized and altered zones mapped by Garrison's Joint Venture Partner covering approximately 14 square kilometers.

Thirty kilometers of ground magnetic-GPS were run perpendicular to the general southwest trend of mineralization and multiple continuous, linear, magnetic anomalies were delineated. A total of 541 soil samples were collected at 30 meter intervals during a ridge and spur sampling program which were evaluated by SGS Labs in China. Multi-element ICP and gold assays conducted by SGS Labs found gold in soils up to 450 ppb. Numerous gold anomalies occur throughout the exploration licenses, in many places coincident with magnetic highs.

Analysis of the most recent magnetometer and geochemical surveys, coupled with construction of a 3D model of underground sampling, drilling and geological mapping is ongoing. Garrison's goal is to test potential mineralization with an 8 to 10 hole drilling program in the spring of 2006.

More information is at http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/show.jsp?action=showRelease&searchText=false&showText=all&actionFor=570175

2005-11-29T11:34:00.000-05:00

Gold Exploration - Magnetics and IP

Sea Green Capital Corp. is pleased to announce that it has acquired a 50% interest in 4 claims comprised of 11 units covering approximately 177 hectares in the northeast part of Ogden Township in Ontario. The property is accessible by gravel roads on the outskirts of Timmins, Ontario.

The claims adjoin the DeSantis Mines property on the east and the McEnaney deposit to the south, and are underlain by hydrothermally altered volcanics and sedimentary rocks and porphyry intrusions. The "key" Porcupine Destor Fault is located one kilometer south of the property. Previous exploration on the property included ground geophysical surveys and numerous diamond drill holes recording narrow gold intersections.

Sea Green has commenced line cutting on both the Casa Berardi - North Group and on the Casa Berardi - Cancor Extension Project. Approximately 75 km. of line will be cut and then followed by magnetometer and IP surveys which are expected to be completed before the end of the year. These surveys are extensions of the work carried out earlier in the year and will lead to a drilling program early in 2006.

More information is at http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releasesfr/show.jsp?action=showRelease&searchText=false&showText=all&actionFor=569257

2005-11-29T11:21:00.000-05:00

Porphyry Copper - Magnetic Anomaly Associated with Occurrence

Aurelian Resources Inc. is pleased to announce the discovery of a second copper porphyry system at its Condor Project in SE Ecuador. Both porphyry systems are adjacent to the Bonza - Las Penas gold deposit.The Camp porphyry, immediately to the west of the Bonza - Las Penas gold deposit, was discovered during a short drilling campaign to test a large magnetic anomaly.

Diamond drill hole CP-05-46 intersected 0.24% copper from 195 m to 298.35 m in an angled hole with the last 42.35 m assaying 0.31% copper. The hole was stopped at 298.35m still in copper mineralisation. Copper assays steadily increased down the length of the hole which only tested the perimeter of the large magnetic anomaly. The porphyry is covered by thin post-mineralisation conglomerates, estimated at 20m true thickness in drill hole CP-05-46.

The discovery drill hole intercept occurs on the edge of the porphyry system which is defined by the magnetic survey as being over 500m wide, 800m long and open to the west. The hole was oriented with a 50 degree dip to the south.

Additionally, the Tranca Loma porphyry copper system occurs on the east shoulder of the Bonza-Las Penas epithermal gold-silver deposit. The porphyry copper system has been previously defined by mapping, sampling and geophysical surveys, including test pitting, trenching, IP and a magnetometer survey. This has delineated a north-west trending porphyry copper target over 2 km in length and 600 m in width, open along strike.

More information is at http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/show.jsp?action=showRelease&searchText=false&showText=all&actionFor=569548

2005-11-25T16:31:00.000-05:00

Alluvial Diamond Exploration - Correlation with Magnetic Sands

Cream Minerals Ltd. is pleased to report receipt of an updated Technical Report on its Alluvial Diamond Properties (EPL 1/94 and EPL 5/94) in Sierra Leone. The report, compliant with National Instrument 43-101, is written by Mr. Charles K. Ikona, P.Eng., Pamicon Developments Ltd., for Cream Minerals Ltd. in respect to its agreement with Casierra Development Fund and Casierra Diamond Corporation ("Casierra") to acquire a 70% interest.

For millions of years, diamonds originating in the Koidu Area of Sierra Leone and elsewhere have been swept down the major rivers, Sewa, Mano and Moa, to river bottoms, terraces and the sea. Prior to Casierra acquiring the lease in 1994, there is no recorded evidence of exploration for offshore diamonds in this area. It is postulated in Sierra Leone that tidal and wave actions as well as possible re-submerged paleochannels within the river deltas may have re-concentrated the diamonds.

Preliminary sampling in 1995 and 1996 by Casierra and Malaysia Mining Corporation recovered nineteen gem quality diamonds. In June, 2005, a detailed magnetometer survey over this area has suggested a possible correlation of diamond concentration with magnetic sands. The survey has shown the presence of a number of features including a 2,400 meter by 1,600 meter by 5 meter depth high priority target which has been identified for bulk sampling. This equates to about 19 million cubic meters of magnetically active sediments in which the magnetic component, weathered magnetite, with a density approximating that of diamonds, becomes an important exploration target.

More information is available at http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/show.jsp?action=showRelease&searchText=false&showText=all&actionFor=568800

2005-11-14T10:27:00.000-05:00

Gold and Copper Exploration - Magnetics and IP for Identification of Drill Targets

Firestone Ventures Inc. is pleased to announce that a detailed surface geophysical program has commenced on the company's 2,016-hectare (4,980 acre) Sonora property, located 110 km northwest of Carmacks, Yukon Territory, Canada. The property lies midway along the "Dawson Range Gold Belt" which hosts historically important gold and copper mines and deposits. Placer gold mining has operated periodically on streams draining the Sonora property. A gravel airstrip on the property and a seasonal road within 25 km provide access.

Firestone Ventures is earning an 80% interest in the property.The 2005 geophysics program, conducted by Aurora Geosciences Ltd., consists of 24 line-km of induced polarization and surface magnetometer surveying across several previously identified targets. The program also includes VLF-EM surveying to help define the location of the Big Creek Fault extending along the Dawson Range Gold Belt. The geophysics program is designed to identify targets for a proposed diamond drilling program to begin in 2006.

More information is at http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/show.jsp?action=showRelease&searchText=false&showText=all&actionFor=565974

2005-11-01T09:19:00.000-05:00

Uranium Exploration - Extrapolation of Geological Characteristics

Pitchstone Exploration Ltd. is pleased to provide an update on its Mountain Lake and Dismal Lake projects located in the Hornby Bay Basin of Nunavut and Northwest Territories.

A $1.2 million exploration program has recently been completed on the projects, which included a 684 line-km MEGATEM II survey, conducted by Fugro Airborne Surveys at 150 m line spacing, over the Mountain Lake project. This survey was designed to identify lithologic and structural characteristics of the Mountain Lake uranium deposit and extrapolate these to the remainder of the claims.

Follow-up ground geophysics was also conducted over the deposit with 40 line-km of magnetic, resistivity and both time- and frequency-domain electromagnetic surveys.

More information is at http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/show.jsp?action=showRelease&searchText=false&showText=all&actionFor=565229

2005-10-31T09:09:00.000-05:00

Porphyry Copper - Ground Magnetics and IP for Target Delineation

In 2005, Lloyd Geophysical of Vancouver was contracted to complete 17 line-kilometres of Induced Polarization (IP) and ground magnetic surveys to the south and west of Stealth's newly discovered Sofia copper-gold porphyry outcrop. The survey covered an area 1,500 metres east west by 3,000 metres north south with grid lines spaced at 200 metres and stations at 50 metres on each line. In 2003 an airborne survey was completed and in 2004 the area was mapped in conjunction with the previously discussed soil sampling program. This ground based geophysical survey was a fundamental piece of work that provided a coherent geological picture of the potential of the Sickle Creek area.

The following is the summary from The Lloyd Geophysical Report on the Sofia prospect: "Based on the geophysical data discussed in this report, the surveys have outlined a very strong IP chargeability anomaly with a significant magnetic overprint. This anomaly, which overlies approximately 50 percent of the survey area, is about 1,400 metres long and 1,000 metres wide. Furthermore it remains open to the northwest, the northeast and the southwest, and also has a strong depth component. Since this anomaly is underlain by rocks of the Jock Creek quartz monzonite pluton, it has been interpreted to indicate the presence of a strong sulphide system with the potential to host a significant gold-copper porphyry deposit."

More information is at http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releasesfr/show.jsp?action=showRelease&searchText=false&showText=all&actionFor=564924

2005-10-24T11:51:00.000-04:00

Gold Exploration - Magnetics and VLF for Selection of Drill Targets

Black Pearl's summer work program consisted of prospecting, mapping and sampling of selected areas of the 9000 hectare Wekusko property, concentrating on the core areas surrounding the Ferro-Gold Dust gold deposits. This work was based upon an extensive 1989-90 ground VLF-EM and magnetometer database, which covers much of the property with 50 and 100 meter line spacing.

The results of the summer program are encouraging and have resulted in the upgrading of 19 VLF-EM conductors to drill worthy, with a total of 2500 meters of drilling planned in 40 holes. This program will begin in early January 2006, a drill contract having been secured.

The 2005 prospecting on the Wekusko property resulted in the ground checking of over 40 VLF-EM anomalies. These anomalies were located along both the Laguna-McCafferty and the Ferro gold trends, as well as in the vicinity of the NW edge of the Morgan Lake quartz-eye granite pluton. This work has resulted in the selection of 19 VLF-EM anomalies for drilling a total of 26 holes.

The drill program will also be expanded to include drilling in the Johnson Lake area, 3 to 5 km northeast of the McCafferty zone. Here magnetometer, VLF-EM and I.P. geophysics identified drill targets in the vicinity of new gold showings containing up to 0.47 oz/T Au (16 g Au) in a grab sample.

More information is at http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releasesfr/show.jsp?action=showRelease&actionFor=562873

2005-10-24T11:40:00.000-04:00

Porphyry Copper - Ground Magnetics for Follow-Up

Asia Gold Corp. (TSX VENTURE:ASG) is pleased to announce the discovery of widespread porphyry copper-gold mineralization at the Khongor prospect in the Gobi region of southern Mongolia. Initial rock sampling and geological mapping have confirmed copper-oxide mineralization over an area of at least 1,250 metres in length and up to 325 metres in width.

The Khongor prospect is located within the West Falcon Gobi Area, a joint-venture property with BHP Billiton World Exploration Inc. (BHP Billiton). The Khongor porphyry copper-gold prospect was discovered by Asia Gold during a reconnaissance exploration program on the company's West Gobi project. Asia Gold is now establishing a winter camp at Khongor in order to support a detailed exploration program with follow-up drilling to test the potential of the porphyry system.

Planned Exploration Programs

Asia Gold and BHP Billiton are currently discussing plans to continue exploration of Khongor 'North' located within the West Falcon Gobi Area. Khongor 'South', the projected southeast strike extension of the prospect outside of the West Falcon Gobi Area, will be explored independently by Asia Gold pursuant to the option agreement with Solomon Resources and Gallant Minerals.

The first exploration program at Khongor South started in early October. This program includes geological mapping, rock sampling and a ground magnetometer survey.

More information is at http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/show.jsp?action=showRelease&actionFor=563310

2005-09-07T08:39:00.000-04:00

Hazardous Waste - Using Magnetics to Find Buried Drums

Rick Alcaraz has told the state Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) that he and other workers collected drums from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and dumped them offshore from the field station three decades ago. Alcaraz said he believes the drums contained radioactive waste material.

Barbara Cook, who is supervising the cleanups of field station and Campus Bay for the DTSC, said that the property where the drums were dropped is not owned by RFS and that the state does not know who owns the marshland between the station and the Marina Bay subdivision.

She said that her agency will be using magnetometers in an attempt to pinpoint the barrels so her agency can determine what they contained.

More information is at http://www.berkeleydaily.org/text/article.cfm?issue=09-06-05&storyID=22238

2005-09-01T08:50:00.000-04:00

Archaeology - Detection of Ring Structure Using Magnetometers

A previously unknown circular structure about 200 feet in diameter is detected recently during preliminary work for an erosion-control project at the site of 2,000-year-old Fort Ancient State Memorial, state authorities say.

More study will be needed to determine whether the structure is an earthworks or the remains of a ditch that held a series of large posts or of some other kind of structure.

"The reaction is 'Wow!'" Jack Blosser, Fort Ancient's site manager, says to The Associated Press.
Blosser says the last major discovery at the site was the remains of several homes found during excavation for a museum and garden area built in 1998.

Ohio authorities say a magnetometer, which can show disruptions in magnetic soil particles, detected the structure below ground.

More information is at http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/2250800002

2005-08-26T10:17:00.000-04:00

Gold Exploration - Magnetics and VLF for Anomaly Follow-Up

The Kenville Mine has not been in production for decades, but figures released in 1990 ranked it as the 26th largest gold producer in British Columbia history. British Columbia Government records indicate that between 1890 and 1954, the Kenville Mine produced 2,024,306 grams of gold (2 metric tonnes) from 181,120 tonnes of ore.

Current work recommendations include:- A surface exploration program to enlarge the soil geo-chemical grid and expand the present anomalies discovered during the mid 1990's by Teck Corp during a two-year drill program. The geo-chemical soil grid located a large copper, gold, silver and molybdenum anomaly, which may overlie a zone or zones of foliation-conformable porphryr copper-style mineralization. The soil anomaly is located near the periphery of a felsic intrusion in a virtually unexplored area of the property.

The anomalous area is 1000 meters in strike length and 250 meters in width, and is open to expansion. Magnetometer and VLF-EM surveys, machine trenching, surface prospecting and geological mapping will be used to follow-up the anomaly.

More information is at http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/show.jsp?action=showRelease&actionFor=552109

2005-08-19T11:34:00.000-04:00

Diamond Exploration - Magnetics for Selecting Drill Targets

Randsburg International Gold Corporation announced today that it has discovered additional diamonds on itsVictory Strike concessions located in central Brazil's Goias State and that ithas substantially increased the size of its landholdings. Randsburg's Brazilian subsidiary, DIADEM MINERACAO LTDA, has a 100%interest in the exploration permits that cover the prospective area which is now 252 square kilometres (62,270 acres) in size. Randsburg owns 85% of the subsidiary.

The concessions are in geological proximity to the famous diamond producing area of the Verissimo River from which diamonds have been recovered for more than 100 years. Based on recently completed ground and airborne geophysics, the Company claimed additional concessions totaling 132 square kilometres.

Based on these new discoveries, the Company has implemented the following work program:

1) Ground work, including further auger drilling, pitting and trenching is being conducted to further delineate the size of the diamond bearing eclogitic intrusives.

2) Airborne and ground magnetic surveys were conducted over prospective features in the claim block. Over 3000 line kilometres of high-resolution aeromagnetic data were collected and interpreted under the supervision of Dr. Allan Spector. A total of 12 line kilometers of ground magnetometer surveying was also completed byDr. Spector over the area of the Victory Strike that includes the systematic auger drilling. Several magnetic anomalies have been interpreted as high priority targets by Dr. Spector.

More information is at http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/August2005/18/c1260.html

2005-08-19T11:20:00.000-04:00

Gold Exploration - Inverse Relationship Between Gold and Magnetics

Prize Mining Corporation is pleased to announce that it has now completed the ground magnetometer geophysical survey on its Atlin Gold Property in northwestern British Columbiat hat was first announced on July 11, 2005. Prize is also pleased to announce that the geophysical survey was completed with tighter line spacing than originally proposed on both the Yellowjacket and Rock of Ages Zones resulting in additional line kilometers and more detailed survey results. In addition, a small geophysical survey on the Gold Run Zone was completed that was not originally planned, as was a survey of all the remaining existing drill collar locations.

The final completed cost of the entire program was less than the budget. The ground magnetometer geophysical survey was designed to follow up strong magnetic anomalies outlined on the Atlin Gold Property by the prior airborne magnetic survey. Exploration work to date by Prize has discovered a positive correlation between low magnetic susceptibility zones and high grade gold mineralization in the Yellowjacket Zone (see previous News Releases datedMay 25, 2005).

The detailed ground magnetometer geophysical survey was completed over the Yellowjacket and Rock of Ages Zones with grid lines spaced 25 or 50 metres apart and readings taken at 5 metre intervals along the grid lines. The magnetometer geophysical survey showed nearly identical magnetic responses on the Yellowjacket Zone and the undrilled Rock of Ages Zone as seen from the previous airborne magnetic survey and the magnetic susceptibility survey on the drill core.

A detailed ground magnetometer geophysical survey was also completed overthe Gold Run Zone located at the head of the historic Pine Creek placer gold channel, 3 kilometres upstream from the Yellowjacket Zone. Seven grid lineswere surveyed at 50 metre spacings with readings at 5 metre intervals in order to test the magnetic response. A larger and sharper magnetic response was found on the Gold Run Zone as compared to the Yellowjacket and Rock of Ages Zones.

The Gold Run Zone, like the Rock of Ages Zone, remains untested by drilling. In all three grid areas, the preliminary total field ground magnetometer geophysical survey results define the target areas very well. Currently 3D modeling and inversion of the magnetic data is being completed by Peter E.Walcott and Associates and will be employed to assist in targeting the next phase of the diamond drill program on the Yellowjacket Zone. Diamond drilling will commence on the Yellowjacket Zone the first week of September, 2005.

More information is at http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/August2005/18/c1318.html

2005-08-19T09:12:00.000-04:00

Gold Exploration - Magnetics for Anomaly Follow Up

Aurelian Resources Inc. is pleased to announce the completion of Phase One exploration and the commencement of Phase TWO exploration at the Bella Vista gold and silver prospect at the Condor Project in southeastern Ecuador. New assays from the area have returned up to 23.3 g/t of Au and 449 g/t of Ag, with 19 samples returning greater than 2 g/t of Au.

The purpose of Phase One follow-up of the stream sediment anomaly at Bella Vista was: to identify the main trend of the mineralization, where an outcrop grab sample assayed 47.3 g/t Au (PR 08/06/2005) and to identify other mineralized structures through geologic mapping and sampling. The completion of Phase One has identified the main trend as 050 degrees, dipping between 40 to 60 degrees to the southeast.

In addition to the previously outlined Morales Shear Zone, another 5 mineralized structures have been delineated in the course of Phase One. Mineralization occurs as veins and mineralized shear zones in the in the Zamora batholith granodiorite.During Phase One, the total number of grab and rock chip samples taken is 197 of which 18 samples are from float and 168 samples are from outcrop. Of the outcrop samples, 38 are rock chip samples between 1.0 m and 4.0 m in length and the other 141 are grab samples. The grade of the samples ranges from less than 0.001 to 23.3 g/t for Au and less than 0.2 to 449 g/t for Ag. Approximately 10% of all samples taken average greater than 1.0 g/t of Au.
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President Patrick Anderson states, "These results fully justify follow-up. We are immediately initiating Phase Two of exploration to further delineate the scope of these high grade structures. This phase will include a program of line-cutting, mapping, geochemistry and geophysics using the company's magnetometers. We expect to have the results for this next stage within the next two months."

More information is at http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/show.jsp?action=showRelease&actionFor=552467

2005-08-15T12:43:00.000-04:00

Platinum Metals - Magnetics to Test Anomalies along Offset Dyke

Wallbridge Mining Company Limited announced the first assays from channel samples and drill holes testing thenewly identified Trill Offset Dyke. Assays from the first massive sulphide lens to be discovered in this new unexplored dyke include 4.64 m of 3.04 gPt/t, 7.72 g Pd/t, 1.92 g Au/t (12.68 g Pt+Pd+Au/t), 1.70% nickel, 1.05%copper in hole WTR-011 (estimated true width 3.3 metres), including a massivesulphide section of 11.36 g Pd/t, 3.84 g Pt/t, 0.18 g Au/t (15.38 gPt+Pd+Au/t), 4.85% nickel, 0.57% copper over 1.42 metres (estimated true width1.0 metres).

More work is planned ... Linecutting has been completed covering the strike extensions of the dyke, and magnetometer and ground TEM surveys are currently underway to test magnetic anomalies identified along the trend of the dyke by magnetic surveys.

More information is at http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/August2005/09/c8388.html

2005-08-15T12:40:00.000-04:00

Diamond Exploration - Magnetics to Outline Size Extents

Delta Mining and Exploration Corp., is pleased to announce that Apex Geoscience, LTD has commenced a detailed fieldwork program on the Montana properties. As announced in a press release dated July 28, 2005, Delta has retained Apex Geoscience, a leading geological consulting firm, to carry out exploration on the Homestead kimberlite pipe and the TV Hill, Half Moon, Rattler Butte, Three Buttes and Teigen Butte, diamond targets in the Grassrange district of Eastern Montana. The work is a follow-up to initial exploration previously completed by Delta in which a number of targets with diamond potential were identified containing classic diamond indicator minerals. In the case of the Homestead pipe a micro-diamond was recovered.

The Apex work program will be multi-phased. The first phase will consist of a geophysical program comprising a ground magnetometer survey to outline the size extent of Delta's exploration targets. Phase two will consist of expanded geophysics, detailed ground mapping, trenching and sampling which will lead to bulk sampling of key targets. Results of each step will be issued as they become available, with the whole program scheduled to last through the end of summer.

More information is at http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050809005662&newsLang=en

2005-08-15T12:24:00.000-04:00

Gold Exploration - Magnetite Association with Gold

PAN AFRICAN MINING CORP. is pleased to announce the commencement of its Phase 2 Exploration Program on its Mountain of Gold Project. The project is located in the Dabolava region of the Central-West Plateau of Madagascar. The Company's license in this region encompasses approximately 1825 sq. km. situated 125 air miles west-southwest of the capital city of Antananarivo, in the provinces of Toliary and Antananarivo.

The Phase 2 Program is designed as a follow-up to its recent discovery of a permissive zone of dilation hosting high-grade gold mineralization along the 10km. Mountain of Gold shear system. The current program is intended to generate focused drill targets to expand the zone of initial discovery at Dabolava East and to identify other similarly permissive zones along the trend. Phase 1 diamond drilling at that site yielded significant "discovery" intercepts, including 4.3 m @10.52 g/t Au and 17.2 m @ 4.04 g/t in holes DE-D-004 and DE-D-006 respectively, approximately 110 meters apart.

The significant drill results from Phase 1 confirm a permissive structural environment along with a strong gold-sulphide association. Accordingly, further geochemical and magnetic studies are now being undertaken along the Mountain of Gold shear system to define additional drill targets for the Phase 2 diamond drilling program. The present work program is being overseen by Andre J. Audet, P.Eng.

The Company has identified a strong relationship between gold-sulphide mineralization and disseminated magnetite at the Dabolava East zone. Magnetite appears to be related to the metamorphic transformation of earlier carbonate alteration generated by a substantial center of hydrothermal activity. Accordingly, the Company has now commenced a detailed ground magnetometer survey and a limited IP (induced polarization) survey that will test the key 2 km by 3km zone of known gold mineralization.

Magnetic patterns associated with gold mineralization will be investigated on a 50 by 12.5 meter grid with a survey totalling approximately 50 line kilometres. Within this area, a minimum of 20 line km of IP survey will also be conducted on selected targets to investigate the distribution of disseminated sulphides and magnetite related to the shear-hosted gold mineralization. The program will be extended to prospective ground beyond the boundaries of this initial discovery zone in Dabolava East as deemed warranted.

More information is at http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=92389

2005-08-03T09:07:00.000-04:00

Gold Exploration - Magnetics as First Phase Method

Select Resources Corporation and Curlew Lake Resources jointly announced today initiation of the 2005 exploration program of their jointly held Typhoon claim group in the Clear Creek District of Yukon Territory. The program is designed to identify lode gold deposits in this historic placer district.

The first phase of the program is to complete a detailed soil geochemical survey and a ground magnetometer survey of the claim group, focusing on claims staked in 2004. This program will include follow-up of several soil anomalies identified late last year. It is expected that soil samples will be submitted for analysis within the next few days, with preliminary results expected in approximately 30 days.

More information is at http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050802/latu131.html?.v=11

2005-07-25T11:21:00.000-04:00

Uranium Exploration - Ground Magnetics for Targets of Special Interest

Batavia recently signed an agreement with AIM-listed Thor Mining PLC to acquire Uranium Exploration Rights to advanced prospects in Eastern Arunta Province, Northern Territory. The new acquisition includes a granted Exploration Licence and Exploration Licence Applications totalling approximately 1,200km2, representing a substantial addition to Batavia’s recently acquired NT uranium portfolio.

Exploration work completed to date has included systematic airborne radiometric surveys, field evaluation of uranium anomalies, scintillometer traversing, reconnaissance geological mapping and ground magnetometer surveys of areas of special interest. Numerous strong radiometric anomalies were recorded from the reconnaissance radiometric survey.

The area has the potential to host three distinctive styles of uranium mineralisation defined by structure and stratigraphy, namely:

1. Structural Hosted: Defined by the occurrence of uraninite within major thrust faults and shear zones. The Delny-Mt Sainthill Fault system appears to have significance, as all metalliferous mineral occurrences known to date are located north of this system eg. Molyhil, Jervois and Bonya. There are clusters of radiometric anomalies along a 4 kilometre corridor which represent a priority follow up target.

2. Quartz-Pyrolusite Reef Hosted: Small concentrations of uranium associated with quartz-pyrolusite reef systems such as the Oorabra Reef system.

3. IOCG/Brecciated Igneous Complex Deposits: Strong radioactivity closely associated with highly fractured granitic bodies in the Mt Sainthill region. Thrust faulting appears to have been responsible for the extensive brecciation and fracturing within the Jinka and Marshall granites. Significant radiometric anomalies remain untested around these radioactive granites.

More information is at http://www.mineweb.net/co_releases/463359.htm

2005-07-25T11:04:00.000-04:00

Archaeological Investigations - Non-destructive Feature Mapping

This archaeology didn't require any trowels or buckets of dirt. It did, however, require working in the baking summer sun in Natchez.

A group from Ole Miss, led by professor Jay Johnson, was in Natchez Tuesday to do some work at the Forks of the Road, once the site of one of the South's largest slave markets."I don't know just what we'll find here, but it was definitely worth a trip to Natchez to find out," Johnson said.

The group, a dozen graduate and undergraduate students spending the summer, wasn't doing conventional archaeology. Instead, the group used geophysical tools to map features in the ground without having to dig."We're doing four different geophysical techniques. It gives you an idea of what's there without having to dig," Bryan Haley, the site director, said. "It's also a lot quicker than conventional archaeology."

The group hopes the survey will help provide a further understanding of how the slave markets were set up and exactly where certain buildings were in pre-Civil War Natchez.

The tools - a magnetometer, a conductivity meter, a resistivity meter and ground-penetrating radar - use different technologies to assess what is under the earth.The magnetometer, conductivity meter and resistivity meter all use electrical currents or magnetic fields to detect certain features and artifacts in the ground.

"The hardest part for me is that I could barely do high school physics," Johnson said. "I don't really understand how these tools work, but they've done amazing things for archaeology."

More information is at: http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/articles/2005/07/20/news/news63.txt

2005-07-25T10:55:00.000-04:00

Observatory Measurements - Tracking the Northern Lights

An international team of scientists will try to figure out, once and for all, what it is that makes the northern sky light up with those strange, flowing bands of coloured light that scientists call "aurora borealis," and that Inuit call "aqsarniit."

To that end, they're installing a set of special cameras across northern Canada and Alaska to take timed pictures of the northern lights, to be compared with data on changes to the Earth's magnetic field that occur when the northern lights flare up.

It's a part of a larger research effort aimed at finding a way to predict disturbances to the Earth's magnetic field that cause disruptions to the flow of satellite data.

For many years, Iqaluit has hosted a magnetometer used by the Geological Survey of Canada to track the movement of the north magnetic pole. This summer, it's being moved from a location behind the power plant to accomodate the creation of the new Plateau subdivision.

More information is at http://www.nunatsiaq.com/news/nunavut/50722_09.html

2005-07-18T16:21:00.000-04:00

Archaeology - More than Just Digging in the Dirt

Purdue archaeology professor Deborah Rotman picks a rural site every summer for class fieldwork. This year's house now belongs to two Purdue professors, but it dates to the 1860s. Not much is known about the house's ownership and past, but Rotman hopes that will change by the end of the summer.

"There's not a lot done on small towns; normally archaeology focuses on affluent urbanites," she said.

Purdue students, visitors and others, like Sarah, daughter of a Purdue anthropology professor, are slowly unearthing the back yard, looking for clues about what life was like in the 1800s and early 1900s. They've been digging for about six hours a day since June 20 and will continue until Aug. 2.

Using shovels, trowels and sometimes their hands, 10 Purdue students slowly dug five holes in the yard of the house on Main Street last week.

At times they had an idea of what they'd find hidden under clay and rock. Before digging the 1-meter-by-1-meter holes, they used a magnetometer, which measures and calculates magnetic fields, to scan through the soil and map the foundations of a chicken coop, a barn and a carriage house. A cistern and a basin for wastewater also were uncovered using the magnetometer.

More information is at http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050714/NEWS01/507140488

2005-07-14T08:54:00.000-04:00

Iron Exploration - Magnetics for Mapping and Target Selection

Quinto Technology Inc. would like toinform its shareholders that the Government of Quebec has confirmed theacceptance of 42 new mineral claims in the Peppler Lake vicinity. These new claims were part of a strategic group of claims that Quinto believes willenhance the potential of the Peppler Lake iron property.

A first phase work program will commence at Peppler Lake within the nextweek. The initial program will consist of line cutting, detailed ground magnetometer survey and basic geological confirmation of the area previouslydrilled by QCM in the 1960's.

More information is at http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/July2005/13/c1046.html

2005-07-13T09:12:00.000-04:00

Archaeology - Searching for Lost Trail

Researchers with the National Park Service are spending time in some city parks in Kansas City. They want to find exactly where the Santa Fe Trail runs throughthe city's south side, before a hiking-biking trail is developed along part of the route.

Much of the trail's route from Independence to New Mexico is well-documented. But there are several stretches in Kansas City where neither historical nor physical evidence provide clues. Researchers are taking core samples and using electrical current, ground-penetrating radar and a magnetometer in hopes of finding the precise route of the trail.

2005-07-13T09:07:00.000-04:00

Gold Exploration - Ground Magnetics for Drill Targeting

Prize Mining Corporation, formerly Muskox Minerals Corp. , is pleased to announce that it has contracted Peter E. Walcott and Associates to complete a ground magnetometergeophysical survey on its Atlin Gold Property, located in northwestern BritishColumbia.

The survey follows up prior geophysical work conducting on the Atlin GoldProperty, including an airborne magnetic and electromagnetic survey and drillcore magnetic susceptibility readings on the drill core from the YellowjacketZone (see News Release dated May 24, 2005).

Prize has identified a strongpositive correlation between low magnetic susceptibility zones and high gradegold mineralization in the Yellowjacket Zone. The Yellowjacket Zone hasreturned numerous high gold assays from diamond drilling to date.

The purposeof the magnetometer geophysical survey is to further identify the magnetic trends on the ground to allow Prize to better target the gold mineralizationin the next phase of diamond drilling. Approximately 80 line kilometres of grid (spaced at 25 metre intervals) will be put in over the Yellowjacket Zone and adjacent Rock of Ages Zonethrough the course of the survey.

The survey will be completed in about3 weeks, after which diamond drilling will resume on Yellowjacket Zone withthe goal of expanding the zone of gold mineralization along the magnetic trends identified by the survey. The survey will also allow Prize to plan the initial diamond drill program on the Rock of Ages Zone, which to date is untested by diamond drilling.

2005-07-13T08:56:00.000-04:00

Pipeline Corrosion and Atmospheric Monitoring - Stationary Magnetometers

Back in junior high science, most of us learned that a magnetic field can induce electrical current. And that conversely, electric current creates a magnetic field. That happens in small ways all over the world and it also happens in big ways. The earth itself has electricity running within it, which produces a global magnetic field. This field surrounds the planet, and can be measured by instruments called magnetometers. In fact there’s one buried in the ground at Northern Lakes College in Slave Lake.

“We’re measuring the earth’s magnetic field,” says Athabasca University space sciences researcher Dr. Martin Connors. “But mostly we’re interested in changes in the field when there’s an aurora.” That’s the aurora borealis, more popularly known as the northern lights. When it’s pulsating up there in the night sky above Slave Lake, it means there’s more than the usual amount of electric current running around in the magnetosphere, to put it unscientifically.

“It’s like a light tube,” says Connors. “Gas with electricity passing through it.” The lights in the sky are one effect. Another is the change the aurora sometimes induces in the earth’s magnetic field. “When the magnetic field changes rapidly it creates another electrical current on the surface of the earth,” Connors explains. “And that can do damage.” For example, in Quebec the power grid was taken down by such magnetic activity. That’s less of a risk in Alberta, Connors says, but there are other economic considerations.

“Electrical currents on earth can cause pipeline corrosion,” he says. The trick is learning how to predict when the aurora is likely to occur, so as to mitigate the effects of the rogue electrical current it induces. But so far, scientists haven’t figured out how to make reliable predictions, and that’s why Connors was in Slave Lake last week, installing his magnetometer in the rain.

Together with his colleague Dr. Ian Shelton and Northern Lakes College science instructor Rob Irwin, Connors buried his instrument on the college grounds. It needs to be well away from any metal objects, he says, because they all have magnetic fields. Connors also has one at a college campus in Paddle Prairie, but its location is not ideal. “If you move a metal chair, it drives it completely nuts,” he says.

The one at Slave Lake isn’t near any metal, but it is connected to a computer in Irwin’s lab that constantly records the data coming in. Connors can keep tabs on the data from Athabasca, where a similar sensor is pumping out the same type of info. When the northern lights are humming and the earth’s magnetic field responds, the magnetometer will pick it up.

Added to photographs of the night sky from below and above (from a satellite), it will make a nice package of data for scientists like Connors to study. As it happens, others are interested in the same science. Connors says a Japanese aurora project has been doing similar work in northern Saskatchewan for several years.

The magnetometer started out in a military application during World War II. Submarines used it to detect ships passing overhead. It works by means of three coils picking up magnetic ‘signatures’ from three different directions. The magnetic field, naturally, produces electric current in the coils. The strength of the current implies the strength of the field.

Another use for magnetometers is in diamond exploration. For the past few years Ashton Mining has been doing magnetic surveys by helicopter in the Buffalo Hills north of Red Earth Creek. The device they use is similar to the one at the college, in that it reads the earth’s magnetic field. Anomalies in that field suggest the presence of deposits of ore.

Directional drilling for ore could benefit from the work Connors is doing. He says the drilling relies on magnetic impulses from ore deposits to know where to go. Disturbances in the field caused by the aurora could mess up the process. So being able to predict such atmospheric agitation would be good. Connors thinks it can happen. “If we could get to the same stage we’re at with weather (prediction), we’d be pretty happy.”

2005-06-29T15:29:00.000-04:00

Archaeology - Magnetometry for Native American Investigations

When he bought his farm outside Jeffersonville in the late 1960s, T. Harold Martin had no idea that the gentle slopes on the property were part of an American Indian village from some 900 years ago.

But Martin, a dentist just out of school, quickly learned about the importance of the site off Ind. 62. He said students from places like Harvard University would knock on his door, unannounced, and ask to see the four earthen mounds in a pasture where his cattle grazed.

In the early 1970s, Martin allowed a team of researchers from Northwestern University and Kentucky's Centre College to perform a dig that turned up portions of a wall, along with numerous pieces of pottery. In 2003 another team of scientists found nearly 18,000 artifacts at a 25-acre section of the farm.

And the work is continuing.

A federal grant of $49,025 was announced this month by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources to do more studies at Martin's farm -- known by experts as the "Prather site," a reference to a previous landowner. The grant work is expected to last about four weeks. It will allow researchers to use some of the most sophisticated equipment available in the field, such as magnetometers and ground-penetrating radar.

More information is at http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050627/NEWS02/506270349

2005-06-24T08:20:00.000-04:00

Environmental Assessment - Magnetics for Detection of Buried Drums

Material found buried at the Catawissa Lumber and Specialty Co. Inc. plant here in April appears to include a “glue-like substance,” a Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) spokesman said Wednesday.The material, however, has not yet been fully characterized and an investigation continues, said Daniel Spadoni, community relations director for DEP’s northcentral regional office in Williamsport.

Acting on a complaint, DEP visited the site April 16 and had employees of Catawissa Lumber excavate a portion of land with a backhoe, at which point a number of metal drums, along with the “glue-like” material, were discovered. Spadoni could not say how much earth was excavated or how many drums were discovered. Asked if the drums contained the “glue-like substance,” he said many of the drums were already decomposed when unearthed.“Clearly, the waste should not have been disposed where it was discovered,” he said.

Based on the preliminary finding, DEP ordered Catawissa Lumber to hire an environmental consulting firm to perform a more detailed investigation. Also, a company that uses specialized equipment like ground-penetrating radars and magnetometers visited the property May 12 and 13 and did not find any evidence of buried drums elsewhere on the property, Spadoni said. He added DEP is generally satisfied with this firm’s findings.

More information is at http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14745722&BRD=2311&PAG=461&dept_id=482260&rfi=6

2005-06-20T09:01:00.000-04:00

Base Metals - Magnetometer Surveys to Define Prospect Extensions

First Narrows Resources Corp. is pleased to announce that the FTG Gradiometer Airborne survey carried out by the Noranda/Slam JV over First Narrows Resources' Middle River property located in the Bathurst Mining Camp, NB, has identified a promising gravity anomaly coincident with a high priority MegaTEM and magnetic anomaly (anomaly #MR1) 9 km north of the BMS#12 zinc, lead, copper, silver mine. First Narrows owns, or has the right to own, a 100% interest in the Middle River property.

The Company has carried out approximately 11 line kms of preliminary ground geophysics and soil geochemistry over anomaly MR1. Gridding and ground geophysical surveys (IP, HLEM, mag, VLF) have detailed the southern part of anomaly MR1. The interpretation of the ground geophysical data suggests that the anomaly is blind, > 700 meters in length, open on trend to the north, and up to 100 meters in width. The top of the geophysical anomaly is interpreted to lie 75 to 200 meters below surface.
VLF, magnetic, and soil geochemical surveys were conducted along a reconnaissance line approximately 700 meters further north of the detailed grid. The surveys confirmed the northern extension of MR1 and located a strong, coincident, ZnPbCuAg soil geochem anomaly.

The FTG Airborne Gravity anomaly is directly coincident with both the widest (and blind) part of MR1 and also a broad weak to moderate PbZnAu soil geochemical anomaly.
The soil geochemical anomalies are characterized by moderately to strongly anomalous pathfinder and secondary metals (Mo, Sb, Cd, S, Bi, Co, Mn).

MR1 occurs on the projected extension of the BMS#12 mine horizon within the Nepisiguit Falls Formation as described by the NB Provincial Government geologists and the Geological Survey of Canada geologists. This is the stratigraphic unit that is host to more than 30 of the 45 known VMS deposits in the Bathurst Mining Camp. The extension of the BMS#12 favourable horizon on the Middle River property is under-explored.

MR1 is considered a high-priority drill target that First Narrows intends to drill during the summer of 2005.

More information is at http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=88987

2005-06-15T11:07:00.000-04:00

Gold Exploration - Magnetics for Definition of Ultramafic Units

Sage Gold Inc. is pleased to report exploration results on the Kerrs property and futureexploration plans. Over the past few months, Sage Gold Inc. completed an extensive Mobile Metal Ion (MMI) soils survey and magnetometer survey on the Kerrs Property in northeastern Ontario (immediately north of the prolific Larder Lake break).

The MMI survey consisted of 1073 samples covering the entire property of2,199 acres. Raw data from the survey reveal a geochemical anomaly southwestalong strike with the Jam Lake Gold zone. The presence of anomalous nickel,cobalt, gold, silver and palladium in the Jam Lake area reflects both thepresence of ultramafic units and the mineralized (2.5 grams Au/tonne over 10.2metres and 11.69 grams Au/tonne over 0.76 metres) quartz carbonate greencarbonate altered volcanics.

The magnetometer survey has aided in interpreting the subsurfacegeology through correlation with historical data, and indicates the presenceof folded ultramafic units sandwiched between less magnetic volcanic units.

More information is at http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/June2005/10/c0623.html

2005-06-10T10:54:00.000-04:00

Platinum Exploration - Detecting Offset Dykes and Other Targets

Tearlach Resources Limited has completed a program of geophysical and geological assessment on its Foy-Hess nickel copper platinum and palladium prospect on the North Range of the Sudbury Basin.A review of the airborne geophysical data indicates at least seven areas of anomalous EM responses, all co-incident with the magnetically mapped location of the offset dykes.

Fifty kilometers of ground magnetometer surveying has been completed on the Venetian and LaForest grids in Botha and Sweeny Townships, essentially completing the ground magnetometer mapping of the 26 kilometers of the Foy and Hess Offset dyke systems held by the Company under option. Two new areas of magnetically anomalous readings discovered during the mapping will be examined during the summer to evaluate their significance.

More information is at http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/June2005/09/c0270.html

2005-06-07T09:50:00.000-04:00

Archaeology - Treasure Hunting Using Magnetometers

SEBASTIAN INLET - John Brandon spreads pieces of eight, doubloons, a small but heavy gold bar, four gold coins and dozens of tiny and corroded silver coins -- worth enough combined to buy a small house. He's in the cabin of the Endeavor, a black-hulled recovery vessel docked at Fort Pierce and waiting for engine repair. And these are some of his finds from previous years.

A 36-year diver and contractor for the company founded by famed treasure hunter Mel Fisher, Brandon paces before a sign that reads, "Have You Flogged Your Crew Today?" He and other sea scavengers are anxious about this treasure-hunting season, which began around the end of May and runs through September.

They know the hurricanes stirred up treasure buried on the beach in the fall, and they're optimistic about what it did for the underwater bounty along the Treasure Coast, so named because of Spanish galleons loaded with jewels and precious coins that sank in 1715.

Brandon's magnetometer, an instrument that detects metal items under the sand, already shows some "big hits." "It could be a cannon from a ship or it could be an old washing machine," said the 51-year-old who lives in Fort Pierce.

More information is at http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050604/NEWS01/506040322/1006

2005-06-07T09:43:00.000-04:00

Archaeology - Underwater Shipwrecks, Docks and Other Sunken Items

Scientists searching underwater for shipwrecks, docks and other sunken items along Callawassie Island came up with little more than an old can, a wrench and a lot of crab traps during the past two weeks. But that hasn't deterred the scientists from wondering what still lies below the surface of Chechessee Creek.

"It's a lot of hit and miss," said Jim Spirek, deputy state underwater archaeologist for the state Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of South Carolina. "Sometimes we find it because it's on the surface. Sometimes it's too deep."

State scientists surveyed the area around Callawassie Island last year with a magnetometer, a piece of equipment designed to detect magnetic fields, such as those from iron used in ships. About 240 locations were identified by the equipment as sites to study. Scientists narrowed the list to about 30 sites targeted for exploration. Divers have been searching the specified areas for about two weeks.

Though no shipwrecks were unearthed during the search around Callawassie Island, Scott still thinks the project was worthwhile. "If you don't find anything," Scott told Spirek after the final dive, "you still end up with knowledge."

More information is at http://www.beaufortgazette.com/local_news/story/4920283p-4506653c.html

2005-06-07T09:11:00.000-04:00

Archaeology - High-Tech Instruments for Battlefield Studies

Nothing on the surface of the 129-year-old Reno-Benteen Battlefield indicates that desperate and overwhelmed 7th Cavalry troopers hastily dug a rifle pit just above the swale where dozens of wounded and dying men were being tended in a makeshift hospital.

But archaeologists armed with high-tech instruments designed to penetrate the grass and soil that conceal all evidence of the siege on June 25-26, 1876, may have discovered a previously unknown defensive position.

More information is at http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/06/02/build/state/25-search-reno.inc

2005-06-07T09:02:00.000-04:00

Marine Archaeology - Searching for Shipwrecks, Docks and Other Sunken Items

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2005-06-03T15:56:00.000-04:00

Diamond Exploration - Finding Subtle Anomalies Missed in Airborne Surveys

Pele Mountain Resources Inc. is pleased to report that an aggressive exploration program is progressing at its 100% owned Attawapiskat River Diamond Project. Kimberlite indicator minerals have recently been recovered from Pele's West River Property that include: high forsteritic olivine, lherzolitic garnets, high-magnesium ilmenites, and high-magnesium chromites.

Pele is currently performing an extensive, highly detailed ground magnetic survey. Approximately 200 line kilometres of grid have already been cut in the southern portion of the West River Property with 100 metre and 50 metre line spacing. Magnetic readings are being taken on 25 metre and 12.5 metre intervals along the cut lines. The highly detailed ground magnetic survey has revealed a number of magnetic anomalies that may be indicative of pipe-like kimberlite intrusions, which are not readily discernible on available airborne magnetic surveys. The magnetically dominant Precambrian basement lithologies appear to have masked certain relatively more subtle, near surface pipe-like magnetic targets that have recently been identified by Pele's detailed ground magnetic data.

Drill testing of magnetic targets using a small portable drill began immediately upon identification of ground magnetic anomalies as Pele's magnetic survey was progressing. Following several delays in January as a result of extreme winter weather conditions, two of these anomalies were drilled to a depth of approximately 35 to 40 metres, which is approaching the practical depth limit of Pele's portable drill.

Both resulted in the successful recovery of core containing predominantly limestone from bedrock. Recently obtained detailed ground magnetic data have identified additional targets within the much stronger magnetic background of the Precambrian basement that exhibit magnetic characteristics indicative of near surface, pipe-like kimberlite intrusions. The drilling of these targets will commence in the next few days.

More information is at http://www.pelemountain.com/PR_all/04-02-13.htm

2005-06-01T14:35:00.000-04:00

Gold Exploration - Magnetics for Delineating & Characterizing Auriferous Zones

Douglas Lake Minerals Inc. reports that it has initiated preliminary surveying work on its Tanzanian concessions and will be coordinating soil sample surveys in the near future to delineate the auriferous structures that the local miners are currently mining. These concessions are the ones that the Company is in the process of closing with the private Tanzanian company, as reported in our news release of May 5th, 2005.

The results of the initial sampling was reported earlier (up to 89 grams gold from a grab sample, and 2.4 grams from a rough chip sample over a 2 foot width) on the Morogoro Property and new results of 14.1 grams per tonne, 1.62 grams per tonne, 0.91 grams per tonne and 4.1 grams per tonne from grab samples at the second zone over 2.5 kilometres along strike to the west in ancillary workings are reported. This concession was sampled by the company's president on geologically the same structure as the initial sampling.

The potential for further gold discovery along strike and between the two zones is very good as demonstrated by a newly opened portion of the initially visited and sampled zone by the local artesian miners who report 3.23 grams per tonne.

Regional geophysics with Magnetometer and a VLF EM Transmitter and receiver over the optioned and purchased concessions will be evaluated with respects to the several known auriferous structures already identified. The potential of the properties to have significant auriferous zones identified remains promising and a program of geochemical soil sampling, detailed geophysical surveying and geological mapping will be initiated shortly.

More information is at http://www.primezone.com/newsroom/?d=79071

2005-05-24T12:44:00.000-04:00

Gold Exploration - Magnetics for Focusing Exploration Efforts

Lincoln Gold Corp. is pleased to announce that it commenced reverse circulation drilling on May 4 at its Hannah gold property in Churchill County, Nevada, approximately 55 miles east of Reno. The track-mounted drill rig is presently on the fourth hole of a ten-hole program planned for a total footage of 5,000 feet. All drill samples will be picked up by a certified Reno-based laboratory and will be assayed for gold and silver. Drilling is designed to test a large, coherent, soil gold anomaly hosted in oxidized Mesozoic metamorphic rocks. Numerous old prospect pits are present along the 3,000 ft-long, east-west-trending gold anomaly.

A large ground magnetometer survey has been completed over the Company's Jenny Hill gold property in Mineral and Nye Counties, located approximately 16 miles west of the small town of Gabbs and between the Paradise Peak and Rawhide gold mines. The large gold property is now 100% covered by magnetic data collected along lines on 100 meter spacing. In addition, six gravity survey lines were completed in the northern portion of the claim block. The new data will be used to help focus future exploration drilling for skarn-hosted and Carlin-style gold mineralization. The Company will employ a professional, third-party geophysicist to interpret the new data and incorporate the information with available surface geology and geochemistry.

More information is at http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050517006267&newsLang=en

2005-05-06T09:36:00.000-04:00

Diamond Exploration - Coincident Magnetic and EM Anomalies

Shear Minerals, Stornoway Diamond and BHP Billiton Diamonds has released results from the spring exploration drilling program on the Churchill diamond project in Nunavut. The first hole drilled has intersected new kimberlite. Drill hole number 05KD428-02 was designed to test KD5071, a circular magnetic high with associated EM geophysical anomaly. The vertical drill hole tested the centre of the anomaly and intersected kimberlite at a depth of 11.5m and the hole remains in kimberlite at a depth of 71m.

Ground geophysical crews are on site and have completed 25 surveys over selected high interest anomalies. Geophysics will include ground magnetics, HLEM and selected nanoTEM. Drilling will continue through to the end of the summer season and will focus on land-based targets within the same areas of interest.

2005-05-03T10:40:00.000-04:00

Alluvial Diamonds - Magnetics for Mapping of Paleochannels

Cream Minerals Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has received a Technical Report on its Casierra alluvial diamond properties EPL 1/94 (Hima prospecting license area) and EPL 5/94 in Sierra Leone, West Africa. EPL 1/94 covers approximately 10.5 km of the Sewa River channel along with adjoining flats and terraces up to 1.4 km wide.

The Sewa River has a long history of diamond production from alluvial sources with EPL 1/94 containing one of the last portions of the diamondiferous sections of the river which has not seen extensive hand mining by natives (Hall, 1966). Within the lease, the river has a relatively low gradient, but is surrounded both upstream and downstream by sections of the river with much steeper, rapid forming gradients.

He reports, however, that results of the programs to date are sufficient to justify further work and recommends a two-phase program. Phase 1 will be a detailed magnetometer survey over portions of the lease indicated by the 1995 geophysical work as possible paleochannels employing an Ovenhauser type horizontal and vertical gradient magnetometer. Cost of the program is estimated at US$175,000. Phase 2 will be a dredge sampling program based on the results of phase 1 at an estimated cost of US$710,000. Total cost of the Phase 1 and Phase 2 programs for EPL 5/94 is US$885,000.

More information is at http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050419005928&newsLang=en

2005-04-13T08:39:00.000-04:00

Disseminated Gold Exploration - Magnetics for Drill Targeting

Over the past 18 months Nevsun Resources Ltd. has been exploring a prospective area approximately 10 kilometers east of its Bisha massive sulphide deposit. The area is underlain by late Proterozoic aged metasediments and associated intrusive rocks. It is located within Nevsun's Okreb exploration license which is contiguous with its Bisha license. The Bisha camp is providing an efficient and cost effective management and logistical base for the Okreb work.

An extensive sequence of jasperoids (silica replacement of limestone) has been traced for many kilometers of strike length. This evidence along with a suite of elements with similar association to those of many Nevada gold deposits (Au, As Sb, Hg, Tl, Ba, Mo) has lead Nevsun's geologists to believe that there is a strong potential for the region to host Carlin type disseminated gold deposits.

Geophysical surveys in the form of magnetometer and IP/resistivity are planned to start within the next few weeks. An initial diamond drilling program of 2000-2500 meters is scheduled to be carried out in May in order to test anomalous areas and geophysically defined targets.

More information is at http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050412005566&newsLang=en

2005-04-13T08:38:00.000-04:00

Gold Exploration - Magnetics for Definition of Geologic Structures

Lincoln Gold is pleased to announce that it has executed a drilling contract and geophysical survey contract and is continuing soil sampling on its Nevada properties. A large ground geophysical survey program on the Jenny Hill property has been contracted with a prominent, international geophysical survey company in Reno.

Work should commence in April on this gold property in Mineral County, approximately 16 miles west of the small desert town of Gabbs. Approximately 110 kilometers of continuous-reading GPS magnetometer survey is planned at a 100 meter line spacing utilizing continuous GPS readings as control. Subsequent data will be merged with the Company's existing 63 kilometer survey (same contractor) for a total of 173 kilometers of magnetometer data. The purpose of the survey is to further define significant structures related to gold mineralization and to indicate possible extensions of known skarn mineralization.

More information is at http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050412005625&newsLang=en

2005-04-12T08:37:00.000-04:00

Gold Exploration - Magnetics for Mapping and Drill Targeting

Cream Minerals Ltd. is pleased to announce that it is now planning the 2005 exploration program on its Goldsmith Property, located near Kaslo in southeastern British Columbia. Results from the previous soil geochemistry and rock sampling results are extremely positive, leading Cream to plan expanded exploration programs for 2005.

Due to the very encouraging gold values obtained in rock and soil samples throughout the length of this property, a two-phase work program is planned for 2005. The initial Phase will focus on continuing to expand the soil sampling grid over the remainder of the property. Also, in order to define drill and trench targets throughout the large anomalous zone, detailed geological mapping, rock chip sampling and an accompanying magnetometer survey will also be conducted over the extent of the grid.

More information is at http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050407005024&newsLang=en

2005-04-12T08:35:00.000-04:00

Platinum Group Exploration - Magnetic Modeling and Characterization

Nevada Star Resource Corp. is pleased to release encouraging results from studies of integrated exploration geology, geophysics, geochemistry and drilling generated since 1995 for the Canwell Nickel-Copper Platinum-Group Element (Ni-Cu-PGE) prospect on Area 4 of the MAN Alaska Project, Delta River Mining district, Alaska. Analysis of the newly integrated database revealed higher nickel values than previously reported, newly recognized Ni-Cu-PGE anomalies between the Lower Canwell and East Canwell showings, and increased potential for large deposits of disseminated sulfide mineralization.

Airborne and ground magnetic and electromagnetic (EM) surveys guided mapping of the lithologies and detection of geophysical anomalies within the Canwell Complex. Inverse three-dimensional modeling reveals the presence of three large magnetic bodies, suggesting a composite intrusion. The easternmost of these bodies is the most irregular in shape and hosts the majority of the mineral showings.

2005-02-23T08:28:00.000-05:00

Copper / Gold Exploration - Expanded Grid Surveying using Magnetics

Ross River Minerals Inc. is pleased to announce that it has resumed operations on its 20,321 hectare El Pulpo property, located 125 kilometres northeast of Mazatlan, Mexico. The initial 2005 program includes additional mapping and sampling of the Cerro Colorado, La Cetolla and Jocquistes copper-gold porphyry prospects and heavy silt sampling of the streams draining the general area of the La Cetolla and Jocquistes prospects and east to southeast of the Cerro Colorado prospect.

The existing grid over the La Langosta and Cerro Colorado prospects will be expanded eastward to tie together the La Langosta and La Cetolla prospects. Soil geochemical sampling, magnetometer and induced polarization surveys will be completed over the expanded grid. Trenching is also planned for anomalous areas. This will be followed by a major drill program within the La Langosta and Cerro Colorado copper-gold porphyry prospects. James R. Reeves P.Geo. will manage the 2005 exploration program.

More information is at http://press.arrivenet.com/bus/article.php/594165.html

2005-02-11T16:22:00.000-05:00

Gold Exploration - Prospecting Using Ground Magnetics

Temex Resources Corp. today released results from the recent trenching program on itsMerico Ethel Property, part of the Latchford Gold Project.

Commenting on the results Brian Groves said, "These results are significant for several reasons. Firstly, they support our view that the full potential of the property to host significant gold mineralization is being realised. Secondly, we now have a number of priority targets to focus on inthe next phase of exploration and thirdly this work adds significantly to our total understanding of the controls on mineralization within the Latchford Project. Our exploration focus will continue to drive toward defining the full potential of the more than 50,000 acres comprising the Latchford Project."

The Company is pleased to report the results of a surface exploration program completed on the Merico Ethel Property during the fall field program. The Property, one of 11 properties comprising the Latchford Gold Project, is located 5 kilometres east of Elk Lake, ON. In October 2004, a program consisting of surface stripping and trenching of high grade copper veins in proximity to the Merico Shaft area was completed. In November and December a grid was cut across much of the Property which provided control for a soil geochemical survey, ground magnetometer and induced polarization (IP) geophysical surveys.

More information is at http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/February2005/10/c2745.html

2005-02-04T14:08:00.000-05:00

Copper / Molybdenum Exploration - Targeting Drillholes Using Magnetics

Sonora Gold Corp has received the results from the final 2 holes from its 2000 meter core drilling Phase 1 program at its San Enrique property in Sonora State, Mexico. Hole # 05-15 returned 27.6 meters grading 0.148% Mo, 0.308% Cu and 6.7gpt Silver. Within this interval 5.3 meters graded 0.454% Mo, 0.92% Cu and 21.3gpt silver.

The results received to date and, to a certain extent, current metal prices, dictate that the focus of exploration at San Enrique switch from gold to molybdenum/copper, either lower grade bulk tonnage targets or higher grade supergene zones. Drilling prior to the discovery at Los Panoches indicated that the rocks at San Enrique were generally molybdenum-enriched. The 8 holes covering more than a square kilometer in the Central area averaged almost 0.02% Mo over their entire lengths. (The crustal distribution for Mo is 1 ppm. 0.02% approaches the grade at which Mo is recovered as a by-product).

Future drilling for these targets at San Enrique will be guided by detailed geophysics including ground magnetometer and Induced Polarization Surveys.

More information is at http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050202006013&newsLang=en

2005-02-03T15:59:00.000-05:00

Diamond Exploration - Magnetic Characterization of Kimberlites

Vaaldiam Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: VAA) has discovered another kimberlite body on the Company's 176,000 hectare diamond property in Rondônia, Brazil, thereby increasing the total number of kimberlites discovered to date to thirty-three.

Vaaldiam's geologists report that several outcrops of kimberlite were recently exposed with a bulldozer during road construction. The exposures of kimberlite, which coincide with an indicator mineral anomaly covering an area of roughly 250 metres by 100 metres, lie approximately 300 metres to the southeast of the Tumeleiro 3 kimberlite. Inspection of the kimberlite exposures suggests that the new kimberlite, named "Clara 2," forms a series of sills which trend in a west-northwest direction. Vaaldiam's Senior Geologist, José Fernando Tonoli reports that manual processing of a 30-litre sample of weathered kimberlite from Clara 2 produced a mineral concentrate rich in garnets, with a lesser amount of oxide minerals such as ilmenites. A detailed magnetic survey over the area of Clara 2 failed to produce a corresponding anomaly, suggesting that the Clara 2 kimberlite may be a non-magnetic kimberlite.

The Clara 2 kimberlite lies in a cluster of five pipes that are situated within a well-defined area covering some 575 hectares. The pipes and sill-like deposits appear to lie along a north-northwest trending structural lineament, which hosts two other diamondiferous pipes known as Cosmos 1 and 2. Geophysical surveys completed by Vaaldiam have identified at least 5 additional targets which exhibit a weak magnetic response within and along this trend. These geophysical targets may represent new undiscovered kimberlite pipes and will be tested during this current exploration campaign.

In highlighting the importance of this new discovery, Dr. Luiz Bizzi, Vaaldiam's Chief Diamond Consultant reports that "this new discovery reinforces the merit of following up a further 34 priority magnetic anomalies selected for work, as they could be new additional kimberlite pipes over and above the 33 pipes discovered to date.

2005-02-02T10:29:00.001-05:00

UXO Detection - Park Searched for Old Bombs, Bullets

A popular park in Bremerton has been partially shut down while the military searches for old bombs and bullets, it was reported.

NAD Park, on the site of Naval Ammunition Depot, was handed over to the city nearly 50 years ago. The Navy never conducted a thorough search for leftover explosives.

A specially trained team is now using metal detectors and magnetometers to see if any explosives remain buried in the wet ground.

2005-02-02T10:29:00.000-05:00

Gold Exploration - Ground Magnetometer Surveys

Oromin's Sabodala Property surrounds the 20 square kilometre exploitation concession recently awarded to Mineral Deposit Limited ("MDL"), an Australian public company whose shares are listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.

Following the award of the exploration concession, Oromin completed a QuickBird High Resolution Satellite imagery survey of the Sabodala area. This will be followed by airborne geophysics, ground geophysics (including magnetics and induced polarization), regional and detailed geochemistry surveys, prospecting, geological and structural mapping, manual and mechanical trenching and extensive drilling, beginning with drilling on the Golouma and Kobokoto prospects in the vicinity of previous BRGM trenching and at the extension of the Sabodala South deposit as soon as possible after the commencement of exploration.

More information is at http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050127005990&newsLang=en

2005-02-02T10:17:00.001-05:00

Uranium Exploration - Ground Magnetic Surveys

JNR and International Uranium have approved a winter exploration program on the Moore Lake uranium project located in Athabasca Basin of northern Saskatchewan. The program was initiated in December of 2004 and will include a minimum of 15,000m of diamond drilling. The drilling will focus on following up and expanding the strike length of the high grade intersections obtained on the Maverick Zone, as well as testing prospective targets on several regional grids.

The program also includes some 300 km of line cutting and grid re-establishment, followed up by a combination of ground EM, magnetic and gravity surveys. In addition, the joint venture will carry out a seismic survey over the Maverick structural corridor, to further investigate the structural and geological relationships of the Maverick uranium mineralization. There are two drills currently operating on the regional grids. They are testing targets identified by previous drilling and boulder sampling, and derived by the ongoing geophysical program.

2005-02-02T10:17:00.000-05:00

Porphyry Copper - Numerous Strong Magnetic Anomalies

Aberdene Mines Limited (OTCBB: ABRM) (the "Company") reports completion of its Phase One exploration program on the New York Canyon Copper project in Nevada.

Aberdene's 2004 exploration program also included completing over 57 miles of Magnetometer survey over the Copper Queen porphyry deposit area.Numerous strong anomalies are coincident to previously established Conoco resource data. There appears to be a good opportunity to continue to showpotential for molybdenum, silver and gold credits in the porphyry system.

More information is at http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/02-01-2005/0002941616&EDATE=

2005-01-24T10:19:00.000-05:00

Gold Exploration - Magnetometer Surveys Over Limited Outcrop

Aurelian Resources has announced the discovery of a new gold area in close proximity Aurelian's Bonza-Las Penas gold-silver deposit in Ecuador known as the El Tigre anomaly. The El Tigre gold anomaly has yielded values in stream sediments of up to 40.4 ppm and abundant gold in the pan. The anomaly is a minimum of 300 x 400 m in size and defined by soil geochemistry and stream sediments. It is surrounded by a broader zone of anomalous silver, arsenic, copper, and zinc in soils.

There are limited rock outcrops within the area of the anomaly and it is planned to further investigate it with further follow-up sampling and pitting. Magnetic and IP surveys are also planned. The El Tigre anomaly is only four kilometers east of the Bonza-Las Penas gold-silver deposit.

2004-12-06T13:08:00.000-05:00

Water Contamination - Magnetic Survey for Reconnaissance

EPA scientists are trying to find the source of a plume of perchlorate contamination in shallow groundwater in Hills, Iowa. The investigation started in August 2003. Perchlorate is the main ingredient in the production of solid rocket fuel. Levels of about 180 to 200 parts per billion (ppb) can interfere with iodine intake by the thyroid gland, which can affect metabolism and cause thyroid tumors.

Results from the EPA's July tests showed the highest levels of perchlorate, at 330 ppb and 272 ppb, were found in a grain field south of Hills Elementary School and City Park. Perchlorate levels greater than 100 ppb were found in 12 groundwater samples in four acres west of the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railroad tracks.

With levels appearing generally stable, the EPA plans to reduce the frequency of well water testing to reduce costs. The agency has a spending cap of $2 million for current efforts in Hills.EPA officials said they suspect partially exploded fireworks got ground up during a harvest. Other theories from residents are that discarded flares used to signal a train crossing or fireworks confiscated by the Fire Department caused the contamination.

Researchers will be in town from Dec. 6-15 to do additional sampling south of the park and west of the railroad tracks. In addition, they will check groundwater and soil samples for fireworks remnants and use a magnetometer, an instrument likened to a sophisticated metal detector, to survey the area.

More information is at http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041202/NEWS01/412020322/1079

2004-12-03T08:16:00.000-05:00

Gold Exploration - Finding Host Mineralized Structure

COMTEX) -- (FinancialWire) Boxxer Gold Corp. (TSX Venture: BXX) has updated its geophysical program at its Gordon Lake gold project located 110 kms.northeast of Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories.

The objective of the recently completed geophysical program was to locate the mineralized structure that hosts the seven known zones of high grade gold mineralization beneath the shallow overburden between the Main and Union zones. A total of 6.4 line kms. of IP (Induced Polarization) and 10.3 line kms. of magnetometer surveys were completed on the property, which successfully outlined a geophysical trend over a distance of approximately 1,000 meters between the Main and Union zones.

More information is at http://www.investors.com/breakingnews.asp?journalid=24248442&brk=1

2004-12-02T08:56:00.000-05:00

Diamond Exploration - High Priority Target Selection Using Magnetics

Kimberlite exploration in the Santo Antonio do Bonito valley is focusing on a single small tributary drainage upstream of the area of this drainage where the very large diamonds have been recovered. This single small drainage has yielded kimberlite indicator minerals including pyrope garnet, chromite, and ilmenite from alluvial samples processed at our Patos de Minas laboratory.

Brazilian Diamonds is searching for the bedrock source of these indicator minerals, using detailed geologic mapping, sampling, and ground geophysics to identify targets within this area (the "Bonito project"). Ground magnetic and electro-magnetic geophysical surveys have been collected over the Bonito project, and high-priority targets are expected to be ready for follow-up early in 2005.

More information is at http://w5d2.ccnmatthews.com/scripts/ccn-release.pl?/current/1201023n.html

2004-11-23T08:50:00.000-05:00

Copper / Gold Exploration - Combined Magnetics and IP

Mindoro Resources has released preliminary results from induced polarization and magnetic geophysical surveys over the Lobo project in the Philippines. The geophysical surveys suggest an intense alteration and stacking of geophysical anomalies suggest a porphyry copper-gold system centered under the Pica prospect.

The survey results define a large, strong induced polarization chargeability anomaly, from three to seven times background, and over an area of 700 m by 500 m, within a broader anomalous halo of one kilometre by one kilometre. A ground magnetic high anomaly is associated with the core of the chargeability anomaly. The chargeability forms a large bell-shaped anomaly flanked above by a high-resistivity anomaly. The new target will be drilled in 2005.

More information is at http://www.infomine.com/index/pr/Pa205991.PDF

2004-11-22T16:17:00.000-05:00

Gold Exploration - Magnetics for Mapping Alteration and Geology

MacMillan Gold Corp has awarded a contract to perform a minimum of 20 line km of ground geophysical surveys commencing November 19, 2004. The survey will initially cover a 100 meter spaced grid which covers the Maderito Target and its extensions along 2 km ofstructural trend. The survey will employ ground magnetic instruments (a magnetometer and base station) and Barlow FDEM 8 frequency ground electromagnetic survey instruments. The objective of the survey is to map, under alluvial cover, the geological contacts and altered zones which host theMaderito target.

More information is at http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/11-22-2004/0002496480&EDATE=

2004-11-18T08:49:00.000-05:00

UXO - Magnetometer Data

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers held a public meeting Tuesday at VIT Community School to discuss cleanup of World War II-era military ordnance at the old Camp Ellis area near Bernadotte. All of that property is now privately owned.

About 75 persons attended the meeting.Two 81-millimeter mortar rounds and two practice land mines have been found in the area so far. Due to safety concerns of moving such unexploded ordnance, the items were detonated in place, said Walt Perro, project manager for the Army Corps.

The land mines had been found 30 inches below the surface of the ground in a field. The mortar rounds were located in a wooded area. One was found 12 inches beneath the surface and the other 18 inches underground. The items were found with metal detectors called magnetometers which are sensitive to metal located four to five feet underground, depending on chemicals in the area and iron content present.

More information is at http://www.cantondailyledger.com/articles/2004/11/17/news/news1.txt

2004-11-17T11:02:00.005-05:00

UXO - Magnetics to Help in Community Clean-up

Some area residents voiced support Tuesday night, while others remained skeptical, of an Army Corps of Engineers proposal to clean up ordnance in areas of the former Camp Ellis site in rural Fulton County.

The Corps looks for unexploded ordnance in the site formerly used for training soldiers during World War II with various types of munitions including rifles, grenades and rockets.

"Ultimately we are looking at what's best to protect the human health of the community," said Kim Turner of the Corps Public Affairs, also noting an Ordnance Explosives Risk Impact Assessment determined that there is minimal public safety risk on the site.

The Corps has been investigating the 17,445-acre site since 1996, conducting environmental studies and checking for ordnance and shrapnel.

Corps district program director Walter Perro said unexploded ordnance was found in two parcels that cover about 40 non-contiguous acres. Cleaning that up using a magnetometer, a material-detecting device, and subsurface clearance is expected to cost about $600,000. The cost would be funded by the Corps' Formerly Used Defense Sites Program.

More information is at http://www.pjstar.com/stories/111704/REG_B4OLAEA6.025.shtml

2004-11-17T10:52:00.000-05:00

Archaeology - Making Digs Quicker, Easier, More Accurate and ... Effective

In a Mississippi Delta cotton field, the practice of archaeology is a painstaking business. But in addition to the traditional tools of the trade — shovels, trowels and screens — University of Mississippi students are using gradiometers, conductivity meters, resistance meters and thermal sensors to make their dig at the Parchman Place Indian mounds quicker, easier, more accurate and ultimately more effective.

The Parchman Place mounds near Coahoma were home to native Mississippians about 600 years ago, said Jay Johnson, director of the Center for Archaeological Research at Ole Miss.The three largest mounds at the site survived over 100 years as part of a cotton plantation. One served as the foundation for a large farmhouse and one barely escaped a bulldozer in the 1960s.
Johnson said early records indicate the site originally had five large mounds and more than 20 small mounds that have since been plowed down.

Using remote sensing data, Johnson was able to identify the locations of the now-vanished mounds by finding the remnants of at least 30 prehistoric structures at the site."Remote sensing technology has made it possible to actually figure these sites out," Johnson said. "They're so large that this used to be quite a long process."

More information is at http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041116/NEWS01/411160342/1002/NEWS01

2004-11-17T10:46:00.000-05:00

Nickel Exploration - Magnetics and Other Geophysics

Liberty Mineral Exploration Inc. (TSX-V: LBE) is pleased to announce that an agreement has been reached withInco Limited ("Inco") to buy-back the December 2002 Option Agreement on the Redstone Mine Property for the sum of $250,000 cash and 2,000,000 common shares of the corporation, to be delivered within 45 days. As part of the agreement Inco is granted the first right of refusal on any concentrates produced from the mine starting January 1, 2012 through December 31, 2014. The agreement is subject to regulatory approval.

Since signing of the option agreement in 2002, Inco has spent approximately Cdn $700,000 on the property in work and payments. Programs completed include diamond drilling, magnetometer, UTEM, bore hole EM (BHEM) aswell compilation and digitizing previous drill hole information.

More information is at http://www.cnw.ca/fr/releases/archive/November2004/11/c1730.html

2004-11-17T10:42:00.000-05:00

Copper Exploration - Magnetics, Chargeability and Gravity

Entree Gold Inc. (TSX-V: ETG - "Entree" or the "Company") announces results from 111 select rock samples from its wholly owned Bayan Ovoo copper showing on the Company's Lookout Hill property, Mongolia. Of the samples collected, 20 returned values in excess of 1% copper and another 22 returned values between 0.1% and 1% copper. In addition, one sample yielded 360 g/t (10.5 oz/t) silver and 1.47 g/t (0.043 oz/t) gold and 14 samples yielded in excess of 10 g/t (0.30 oz/t) silver.

"The Bayan Ovoo copper showing is more extensive than we originally anticipated," said Greg Crowe, Entree's President and CEO. "The widespread copper mineralization, combined with areas of alteration and satellite color anomalies in the valley to the north, suggests that the potential size of this new copper-silver-gold system is significant. Bayan Ovoo, along with Zones I, III and several other known showings, illustrate the widespread nature of mineralization in this belt. The potential remains high for the discovery of new areas of mineralization within the 140,000 hectares of the property that are outside of the Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. earn-in area."

A six kilometer by three kilometer grid has been established to cover the extensive area of exposed copper-oxide mineralization and two large satellite image color anomalies in the valley to the north. Spectral analysis of these color anomalies suggests the presence of silica and/or argillic alteration. Sporadic outcrops of volcanics and porphryitic intrusives occur within the valley, coinciding with these areas of potential alteration. Alteration studies along with geological mapping, geophysical surveys (IP, magnetometer and gravity) and soil and rock geochemical surveys are in progress.

More information is at http://w5d2.ccnmatthews.com/scripts/ccn-release.pl?/current/1111033n.html

2004-11-17T10:41:00.000-05:00

Copper Exploration - Ground Magnetics and IP

Mr. Kenneth G. Sanders, P Eng, Director and Geological Consultant to Magnum d'Or Resources (Magnum) (OTCBB:MAGR) is pleased to announce that Magnum has received an exploration update for the current ongoing work program including a new copper discovery on the Kuhl Morit property license which is 100% fully optioned to Magnum.

The Khul Morit Property License number 6283X covers an area of 1.853 X 2.667 kilometers. The total area of the license is 4.94 kilometers squared (494 hectares or 1,220.7 acres). The license is located approximately 819 straight-line kilometers southwest of Ulaanbaatar in the western portion of the Gobi desert on Map K-47-111. Exploration work conducted during the Phase 1 program in April of 2004 consisted of hand trenching, rock chip sampling, geological mapping, soil sampling, and 3-D array (real-section inverted data) Induced Polarization and corrected Magnetometer geophysics.

The April 2004 work done by Magnum resulted with samples which returned significant copper, up to 1.77% and gold up to 0.729 g/t as well as significant indicator elements such as arsenic which is sometimes a pathfinder indicator of gold.

The current work program which is in progress is the second phase of the Khul Morit project and is supported by a 38 person 14-Ger camp located 1 kilometer north of the property boundary. Exploration currently underway consists of geological mapping and sampling, extension of the grid to the east and west of the April grid, soil sampling, Induced Polarization geophysics and magnetometer surveys, and diamond drilling.

More information is at http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20041110005765&newsLang=en

2004-11-17T10:29:00.000-05:00

Cu - Au Exploration - Coincident Magnetic and Chargeability Anomalies

Inca Pacific has commenced drilling at the Antoro Sur copper-gold project in Peru. The goal of the program is to delineate a resource by drilling approximately 30 diamond drill holes.

Drilling partially explored an area approximately 1900 m by 900 m where surface exposures of supergene enriched copper mineralization occurs within coincident magnetic and chargeability anomalies.

Drill results were encouraging and outlined good grade, shallow, supergene enriched "blanket" style copper mineralization over an area of over 1 sq km. Significant highlights from 2003 include 1.29% Cu and 0.46 g/t Au over 35.1 m in Hole AS 03-13, starting 32.0 m down hole.

More information is at http://www.infomine.com/index/pr/Pa203252.PDF

2004-10-29T11:33:00.000-04:00

Archaeology - Location of a Stockade Wall

The original stockade palisades wall at Presidio La Bahia in Goliad, Texas was the first line of defense against attack at the Fort built in the mid-1700s.

Texas Historical Commission archaeologists used a magnetometer to survey the area."We discovered a line in the survey we wanted to examine in this dig,” said THC archeologist Jeff Durst.“The location of the palisades stockade wall is historically important. This was the first line of defense for the fort.”

More information is at http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/1138041.html