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ValGold Resources’ (TSX.V:VAL) latest news suggests that management has hooked a big one with its newest acquisition in Guyana.

Although Goldcliff has thus far focused on reporting drilling results from a few high-grade zones on the property, according to Sanders, Panorama Ridge in fact has substantial bulk tonnage, open pit potential. In addition to the high-grade gold that Goldcliff is drilling, Sanders explains that in today’s gold market the low-grade material at Panorama is becoming economic, and in turn substantially increasing the potential size of the Panorama resource.

Commerce Resources Corp. (TSXV: CCE; FSE: D7H), bolstered by its latest drill results, is on track to break ground on North America’s first stand alone tantalum/niobium mine within two years. However, that’s not going to happen fast enough to help The Boeing Company meet a 2008 year-end delivery deadline for its new 787 Dreamliner commercial aircraft.

Instead of running with risk in view of huge oil findings, the company maintains a conservative approach based on guaranteed opportunities and diversification on drill-ready or existing wells within Canada.

John Whittier Greenleaf, the American Quaker poet and abolitionist, was noted for saying, “I’ll lift you and you lift me, and we’ll both ascend together.” It looks as if Ascendant Copper (TSX:ACX) has taken some of his sage relationship advice as it ushers in a new phase of its ascendancy with its friendly takeover of St. Geneviève Resources (CNQ:SGVL) of Montréal.

In a meritocracy, the pure, rich cream floats to the top. It’s where people are selected competitively according to merit, talent, motivation and effort, based on the idea that positions of responsibility and prestige should be earned. Kootenay Gold and its team are an example of just that.

No, we’re not in Kansas anymore, Toto, but we are at the scene of a whirlwind of activity along the southern margin of the Athabasca Basin, where Tribune Uranium Corp (TSX.V:TCB) has just begun drilling for uranium at its Botham Lake property. The company is working right next door to Cameco's recent Centennial Zone discovery, which reports 18.3% U3O8 over 5.3 meters.

NioGold Mining (TSX.V:NOX) has just finished drilling over 10,000 metres of a planned 40,000 metre drill program on its wholly owned Marban Block property. This initial round of the program is investigating gold mineralization in the area immediately surrounding the past-producing Marban Mine. All of the holes indicated that the geologic features that helped establish the Marban Mine are also present in the ground around the mine.

Commerce Resources Corp. (TSX.V: CCE, FSE: D7H) has investors seeing double – in a good way. The company has just doubled the size of its Blue River property, located approximately 200km northeast of Kamloops, B.C., by staking an additional 95 claims for a total area of 104,700 acres to the south of the Bone Creek watershed. The total size of the property now exceeds 1,000 km2.

Yale Resources Ltd. (TSX.V: YLL), in an on-going sampling program at the La Verde Grande copper mine in north-western Mexico, has turned up skarn mineralization in an adit about 80 metres south of the main mine entrance.

All dreams, rumors, and other Fleetwood Mac references aside, Bayfield Ventures (TSX.V:BYV) really is at the “Edge of 17” as it gets set to drill its newly acquired parcel of land adjacent to Rainy River Resources’ (TSX.V:RR) #17 gold zone. Management has successfully negotiated a deal to tie up certain patent mineral rights totaling 80 acres (known as Parcel #15961) in the Richardson Township.

On Tuesday, Nov. 6 as ValGold Resources (TSX:VAL) announced that it had closed on its Honnold Corp. acquisition. As a result, ValGold now indirectly owns 21 exploration concessions covering approximately 900 square kilometers in Venezuela’s Bolivar state, considered one of the few remaining relatively unexplored and untapped regions of bonanza scale gold, precious, industrial and base metals prospects in the world.

Astral Mining on Oct. 18 released a report on the ongoing Phase II drilling program at its Jumping Josephine gold prospect in southern British Columbia. Astral’s on-site geotechnical team has sampled JJ Main Zone quartz stockwork over more than 540 meters of strike and down to a maximum depth of 152 m, diamond drilling a total length of some 3,333 m. Management expects that a minimum 12 more holes will be drilled during the Phase II program before calling it quits for the season.

When Teryl Resources Corporation (TSXV: TRC, Pink Sheets: TRYLF) became interested in the Gold Hill Prospect near Bisbee, AZ, they were following a pretty strong lead. Phelps Dodge Corporation’s Lavender Pit mine, only 4 miles to the west of the project, is one of the most productive copper mines in history, producing over 75 million tons of copper ore from 1954-70, and in excess of $1B in copper, gold, and silver.

Atomic Minerals (TSX.V ATL) is applying some old real estate wisdom to its newest uranium acquisition in Tanzania: location, location, location – as well as a room with a view. This thinking nets the company over one million acres of prime ground in an area known for hosting sizeable uranium deposits.

Grenville is progressing toward its eventual goal of production on Silveria. A partner providing a mill will be an important next step to secure cash flow from the project, however, even more important for the Grenville team at this point is to determine the value of the mineralized rock they send through the mill.

PMI Gold (TSX.V:PMV) has closed its deal with Nevsun Resources (Barbados) to acquire the Kubi Gold project in Ghana’s Ashanti Gold Belt. This latest acquisition rounds out the company’s existing portfolio to four past-producing Ghanaian gold properties, giving PMI control of a total 698 sq km in the Golden Triangle.

Investors looking for Alberta energy stocks would do well to notice Pennant Energy Inc. [TSXV: PEN] a promising oil and gas firm that trades on the TSX Venture Exchange. This company enjoys good cash flow from 15- 45 % interest in eight oil wells in Manitoba’s Daly Field, producing medium grade crude from the Lodgepole and Bakken formations.

Goldcliff Resources is making solid progress on exploration programs this year, and the company’s recent activity underscores that fact. Goldcliff is spending $1,550,000 in exploration on several of its 100-per-cent-owned properties in British Columbia, Canada. The exploration is being conducted on Panorama Ridge (gold), Ainsworth (silver and molybdenum) and Big Sheep Creek (uranium). The company has also identified new properties of merit for acquisition.

When ValGold’s team of more than thirty exploration experts first hit the field in northern Venezuela a year ago, the company planned to prove up a reasonable sized resource just north of Crystallex’s Tomi Mine. Assay results from 2007, coupled with historical drill results from previous property owners, now suggest that ValGold has completed the first big step in achieving that goal.