Daniel Stewart Securities Plc (AIM: DAN) OTCQX Strategy Blazes a Trail

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TAIA Lion Resources Set New Standards In Stakeholder Management

TAIA Lion Resources, the fast track developer of the highly prospective Lake Sonfon and Gori Hills gold projects in Sierra Leone set new standards in Stakeholder Management.




One of the focus areas at the recent African Mining INDABA held in Cape Town was the subject of stakeholder management. With many national governments facing tough fiscal challenges, the temptation to increase royalty taxes on the resource sector is increasing. Stakeholder management represents one of the most important ways mining companies can engage in a mutually beneficial dialogue with government  about how best to structure a equitable policy that supports the best interests of government, but at the same time enables the private mining sector to prosper and invest.


TAIA Lion Resources stakeholder management policy is reflected in the role the TAIA Peace Foundation TPF plays as a shareholder of TAIA 

"Taia aspires to be a leader in ethical exploration and mining, creating robust commercial value while establishing the industry standard for corporate, social and environmental responsibility."

 To this end, Taia Peace Foundation was formed in 2007 with a focus on Sierra Leone and with a single aim: to assist rural communities in overcoming the so-called “resource curse”. Taia Peace Foundation (TPF) is Taia’s conduit for social & rural development programs and also provides a tether for local communities to participate in Taia’s value creation.

Through TPF, TAIA is focused on Creating Shared Value (CSV) versus traditional CSR, pursuing development programs that have a joint company and community value proposition. The TPF ensures that TAIA will deliver the highest ethical standards in its operations and will promote economic and social development within their areas of operation through initiatives that will be of widest maximum benefit to our partner communities.

The TAIA Stakeholder Model reflects one of the most advanced forms of stakeholder and CSR management and should be considered as a significant benchmark for other exploration companies / investors.

Brazilian Gold Corp BGC.TSX.V Shares Advance 15% on Heavy Buying

Brazilian Gold Corp BGC.TSX.V shares advance 15% Tuesday as the company begins to advance its flagship Sao Jorge gold project in Northern Brazil. BGC shares had been caught in a market sell off in Toronto where investor appetite for exploration stage stocks had pretty much dried up. With a PEA on Sao Jorge and where the possibility of an upwardly revised resource estimate is due this year, BGC is now being recognised by investors as a company that is in the transition stage and in the case of Sao Jorge moving into a development scenario with an element of exploration risk now being taken out of the company. We would expect the BGC share rally to continue in line with the progress the company is making on Sao Jorge's development.

TAIA Lion Resources Breaking News at Gori Hills

TAIA Lion Resources, the fast track developer of the exciting Gori Hills and Lake Sonfon gold projects in Sierra Leone, have commenced phase two drilling on their Gori Hills Project. This comes off the back of a successful phase one drilling programme undertaken recently at Lake Sonfon.

TAIA Lion's Gori Hills property is set in Sierra Leone's granite greenstone geological belt, in what is a highly prospective gold bearing region. TAIA's drill team is fully mobilised on site.

Assay results from both drill programmes are expected to be released as soon as possible.

www.taialionresources.com

Brazilian Gold Corp (BGC:TSX.V) Add To Resource Base

Brazilian Gold Intersects 82 m Grading 0.85 g/t Including 4 m Grading 13.9 g/t Gold at the Surubim Project (Jau Target), Brazil


Brazilian Gold Corporation (TSXV: BGC, "Brazilian Gold" or the "Company") is pleased to report assay results for the final 11 holes of the 2011 drill program on the Surubim project (Jau target) in the Tapajós region of northern Brazil. Gold mineralization at the Jau target was discovered by Brazilian Gold in the first quarter of 2011 and has been intersected in drill holes (20 holes in 6,203 m) over a strike length of 700 m and up to a depth of 250 m below surface; the mineralization is open at depth and to the west. The target is located approximately 65 km southwest of the Company's advance stage São Jorge project and is accessed by the Transgarimpeiro Highway.

Highlights
- JAD-012-11 intersected 1.35 g/t gold over 12 m,
- JAD-013-11 intersected 0.85 g/t gold over 82 m that includes a higher grade interval of 13.8 g/t gold over 4 m,
- JAD-018-11 intersected 3.39 over 4 m, and
- JAD-019-11 intersected 1.16 g/t gold over 12 m (See table below for a complete set of drill intersections).
- Jau target represents one of several highly prospective gold targets identified on the Surubim project.
- Soil geochemistry and mapping currently underway on the Mariazinha target.
TABLE 1: DRILL RESULTS FROM THE JAU TARGET, SURUBIM PROJECT
                                                           
              From     To          Int.        Au
Hole ID        (m)     (m)         (m)*       (g/t)

JAD-012-11    221.00   233.00      12.00       1.35
JAD-013-11      50.00   132.00      82.00       0.84
includes      110.00   114.00       4.00      13.80
JAD-014-11     93.00   189.00      96.00       0.27
includes      139.00   171.00      32.00       0.51
JAD-014-11    237.00   241.00       4.00       1.69
JAD-015-11    178.00   232.00      54.00       0.32
JAD-016-11    256.00   262.00       6.00       1.08
JAD-01 7-11     54.00    68.00      14.00       0.32
JAD-017-11    160.00   164.00       4.00       0.89
JAD-018-11    278.00   306.00      28.00       0.30
JAD-018-11    360.00   364.00       4.00       3.39
JAD-019-11    260.00   272.00      12.00       1.16
JAD-020-11     24.00    29.23       5.23       1.00
* True thickness is approximately 70 to 80 per cent of drill interval.

Note: The large composite intervals are a result of several narrow high-grade veinlets within an interval that is anomalous in gold.

Ian Stalker, CEO of Brazilian Gold, commented "The Company is delighted to have discovered gold mineralization in its first holes at the Jau target. The drill program has outlined substantial near surface gold mineralization that has the potential for low cost open pit extraction. The Company is currently evaluating the continuity of the mineralization to determine if the drill spacing is sufficient for an independent NI43-101 inferred resource estimate to be completed at this time, which would further add to the updated NI43-101 resource estimate for our São Jorge project due to be completed this quarter. In addition to drilling at Jau, we have been busy with geochemical and mapping programs at the Mariazinha target, which is located 15 k m northeast of Jau, as well as reviewing the results of the airborne geophysical survey completed in Q3 2011 that we expect to generate a number of high priority targets for follow-up exploration."
The 2011 drill program was designed to test an east-west trending chargeability and magnetic anomaly that was coincident with auriferous quartz-sulphide veins exposed in an historic garimpeiro pit. Twenty drill holes (6,203 m) were completed on ten sections (7900E to 8800E) space 100 m apart; the holes were drilled towards the north or south at -55 to -60°.
The drill holes intersected an east-west striking, steeply dipping mineralized zone hosted in felsic volcanic (ignimbrites) and granitoid rocks. The mineralized zone is up to 70 m thick and is comprised of quartz+calcite+sulphide veinlets with envelopes of sericite-silica-pyrite; sulphides include pyrite, sphalerite, galena and chalcopyrite. Drilling has delineated the zone over a strike length of 700 m and up to 250 m below surface; it is open at depth and to the west.

Laboratory Procedures
Drill core is sampled at 3 metre or smaller intervals using a diamond saw. One half of the sample is archived and the other half is dispatched to Acme Analytical Laboratories Ltd.'s sample preparation facility in Itaituba, Brazil, where the sample is crushed, split and pulverized to -200 mesh. The pulp is shipped to Santiago, Chile or Vancouver, Canada for gold fire assay. Acme Analytical Laboratories Ltd. is an internationally certified ISO 9001 laboratory.
Garnet Dawson, M.Sc., P.Geo. (British Columbia), Vice President, Exploration for the Company and a Qualified Person, as defined by National Instrument 43-101, has reviewed and approved the technical disclosure contained in this News Release.

About Brazilian Gold Corporation
Brazilian Gold is a Canadian-based public company with a focus on the acquisition, exploration and development of mineral properties in northern Brazil. The Company has title to one of the largest land packages (3,750 km2) in the Tapajós and adjacent Alta Floresta gold provinces. The land package contains green fields to more advance stage projects including the Company's flagship São Jorge project.
The São Jorge project contains an indicated mineral resource of 11.365 Mt grading 1.0 g/t gold (379,000 ounces of gold) and an inferred mineral resource of 20.673 Mt grading 0.8 g/t gold (558,000 ounces of gold) at a 0.3 g/t gold cut-off (Coffey Mining, June 21, 2011).

Brazilian Gold Corp BGC:TSXV Begin work on the pre feasibility study for the exciting Sao Jorge Gold Project

Following a series of good drilling results on their flagship Sao Jorge Gold Project, Brazilian Gold Corp BGC:TSXV have commenced initial work on the pre feasibility study for the exciting Sao Jorge Gold Project
BGC has released a series of positive drill results from the Sao Jorge property where grades have been steadily increasing and where the company is expected to release soon, a revised and likely improved resource estimate.

URU Metals LSE:URU Shares Advance On Positive Uranium Outlook

URU Metals (LSE:URU) the London listed uranium exploration company who are currently drilling on their highly prospective Irhazer Uranim Project in the Republic of Niger, see their shares advance by 3.7% Wednesday as the market turns positive on uranium.

URU Metals is one of only a few London listed uranium exploration companies and the only London listed company with large scale exploration licences in Niger, where the world's fourth largest assured uranium resources exist.
Recently, both the United States and France have announced that nuclear energy will remain a strong feature of their energy generation mix. The United Kingdom is committed to the development of up to ten new nuclear power stations. There has recently been signs that the major uranium producers are looking to build up their resource inventories. Cameco's recent transaction with the private South American uranium exploration co, UrAmerica, where URU Metals has a 7.2% stake and the decision by Rio Tinto to place an offer for Hathor Exploration, provide some evidence of return to a more positive level of sentiment about the future of the uranium sector.
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