Category: Investor’s Corner

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire – Jan. 3, 2012) – Aura Minerals Inc. (TSX:ORA) (“Aura Minerals” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the appointment of Ian Stalker to the Company’s Board of Directors.

COUER D’ALENE, Idaho, Jan 03, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Star Gold Corp. (“Star Gold” or the “Company”) (otc markets:SRGZ) is pleased to announce the appointment of David Segelov to the Company’s Board of Directors. David Segelov is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and earned a Masters of Business Administration from Columbia University in New York. He also holds a law degree from Sydney University. He is the sole partner of Reverse Swing Capital, a financial consulting firm. Reverse Swing Capital provides financial analysis of investments and ideas for hedge funds. Prior to starting Reverse Swing Capital, Segelov was an analyst at various hedge funds including, for five years, at Para Partners in New York. Mr. Segelov currently holds no other management positions with any other public companies. For the past six years Mr. Segelov has primarily focused on resource companies in the USA, Australia and Canada with an emphasis in gold investments. Mr. Segelov has invested in a range of early stage projects encompassing various types of metals; including being an early investor in open pittable gold mines in Mali and Ghana and projects developing silver in New South Wales. Mr. Segelov’s personal philosophy as an investor is to identify long range “holds” in an attempt to capture value along the curve as companies are able to find and add resources and prove those resources into a viable mine.

DENVER, Jan. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — The Board of Directors of Vista Gold Corp. (TSX & NYSE Amex Equities: VGZ) (“Vista” or the “Corporation”) is pleased to announce that effective January 1, 2012, Frederick H. Earnest, President and Chief Operating Officer of the Corporation was appointed to the role of Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Earnest’s new title will be President and Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation. Mr. Earnest’s appointment follows the retirement of Michael B. Richings as Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Richings will continue to be actively involved with Vista in his role as a director and the Chairman of the Board of Directors.

El Tigre Silver Corp. is pleased to announce that it has closed the first tranche of its previously announced non-brokered private placement of 2,936,000 units of the Company for aggregate gross proceeds of $734,000. Each Unit consists of common share of the Company and one-half of a common share purchase warrant. Each whole Warrant entitles the holder to acquire an additional common share of the Company for a period of 2 years from the date of issue at a price of $0.40 per share.

HALIFAX, Dec. 23, 2011 /CNW/ – (CNW – December 23, 2011) – Terry Coughlan, President and CEO of GoGold Resources Inc. (“GoGold”), is pleased to announce that GoGold has closed its previously announced non-brokered private placement financing of $4,500,000. The private placement comprised the sale of 3,600,000 common shares at a price of $1.25 per share (the “Private Placement”) The common shares issued in this Private Placement are subject to a 4 month hold period which ends on April 24, 2012.

New Gold Inc. and Silver Quest Resources Ltd. today announce that New Gold has completed the acquisition of all the shares of Silver Quest. Under the terms of the court approved arrangement, 10.5 million New Gold common shares were issued to former Silver Quest securityholders on the basis of 0.09 of a New Gold share for each Silver Quest share and nominal cash consideration.

In calendar year 2011 Yale generated modest revenue of approximately $193,000 as a result of cash payments and management fees from optionees, sale of shares in optionees, oil and gas revenue, and consulting for third party companies. In addition, current free trading, saleable, shares amount to approximately $227,000 as of Dec. 22.

The Board of Directors of Fortunate Sun Mining Company Ltd. are pleased to announce that it has successfully completed its Initial Public Offering for gross proceeds of $1,500,000 under a prospectus dated October 18, 2011. Fortunate Sun issued 7.5 million units at a price of $0.20 per unit, with each unit comprised of one common share and one-half of a warrant, with each whole warrant exercisable into a common share for 18 months at $0.30 per common share. Haywood Securities Inc. (“Haywood”) acted as agent for the offering. Haywood received a cash commission of 10% of the gross proceeds of the offering, a corporate finance fee of $20,000 and Fortunate Sun granted agent’s options to Haywood and sub-agents to purchase up to an aggregate of 750,000 agent’s units at a price of $0.20 per agent’s unit exercisable for a period of 24 months.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Dec 16, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Guerrero Exploration Inc. (“Guerrero” or the “Corporation”) (tsx venture:GEX) announces that it has completed the last closing of its previously announced private placement financing. The Corporation issued 1,669,166 units ($250,375) for a total raise of 6,456,997 ($968,550) units at $0.15 per unit, with each unit consisting of one common share and one common share purchase warrant. Each warrant is exercisable for 12 months from closing at an exercise price of $0.30 per common share, subject to acceleration in the event the Corporation disseminates a press release advising that its shares have traded on the TSX Venture Exchange at a price per share greater than $0.60 for 10 consecutive trading days (including days where no shares are actually traded), in which case the warrants shall expire, without further notice, on the 31st day following the issuance of the press release. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall the Corporation be entitled to issue such a press release within four months of the date of closing. The Corporation plans to use the proceeds from this financing for general working capital and exploration. Guerrero paid finders’ fees in respect to this closing of $18,250 and issued 120,867 finders’ warrants, each of which will entitle the holder to subscribe for one additional unit at the issue price for a period of one year from closing.

Vancouver, December 16, 2011– Fortuna Silver Mines Inc. (NYSE: FSM | TSX: FVI | BVL: FVI) is pleased to announce that it has been added to the S&P/TSX Composite, effective at the market open on Monday, December 19, 2011. The Company joins Canada’s other leading silver producers on the 255-company index, which represents the largest businesses on the Toronto Stock Exchange.