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Kinross Gold Corp. (TSX: T.K, Stock Forum) and (NYSE: KGC, Stock Forum) and its $7 billion (mostly stock) intention to purchase all of Red Back Mining Inc. (TSX: T.RBI, Stock Forum) of Ghana and Mauritania is in this Stockhouse article: delivered Tuesday.

We reported Kinross’s swift interest in West Africa via Stockhouse and Ticker Trax ™ fresh off our April 2010 trip to Ghana. That was when Kinross paid $600 million for most of Red Back Mining’s springtime equity serving. At the $1.21 stock price of today (Wednesday), Xtra-Gold is still just a $40 million company.

Robert Casaceli, a Nevada-based structural geologist who is allied with Xtra-Gold and is a director, tells me from Canada that Xtra-Gold’s Kibi Gold Belt soon will become “the latest undiscovered thing” for West Africa gold investors. “Keegan [Resources Inc.] (TSX: T.KGN, Stock Forum) and (AMEX: KGN, Stock Forum) was good enough to exploit the Esaase District there (I have seen it) and now Yves Clement and his Xtra-Gold team are doing the same in the Kibi. The alluvial at Apapam (base camp and chief prospect) and thereabouts for Xtra alone is hundreds of thousands of ounces. The granitoids along all of the structure point increasingly to 2 million ounces and possibly far greater amounts.”

I have a vested interest in Ghana. Xtra-Gold is a preferred client of Stockhouse, distributor of Ticker Trax ™. I help managing director of Ghana operations and large shareholder James Longshore get his story told. This is the only fee-based relationship I have personally with any subject covered at Ticker Trax and at Stockhouse. Stockhouse also has advertising and investor relations contracts with many natural resources companies. My coverage of any of them is in no way influenced by any Stockhouse links.

I am considering expanding my ownership of Ghana companies to include Keegan Resources. Perhaps Perseus Mining Ltd. (TSX: T.PRU, Stock Forum), whose Kevin Thomson, chief geologist in Ghana, tells it like it is. My desire for more Ghana comes after Kevin Williams at small gold-stock specialist Cormark Securities in Toronto said he sees a higher bid for Red Back from Newmont or Ashanti or someone out there. “We believe there is a high probability of a higher bid for Red Back given the exploration potential of the Tasiast asset, and we also believe Kinross will be hard-pressed to bid much higher than the current offer given the discount at which the company’s shares currently trade,” Mr. Williams says.

COLOMBIA: Bob Casaceli, Xtra-Gold’s consultant geologist, has other interests: royalty maker Franco-Nevada for one. Also an Ontario prospector: Creso Exploration Inc. (TSX: V.CXT, Stock Forum) in Ontario. In our Colombia space: Antioquia Gold Inc. (TSX: V.AGD, Stock Forum), a speculative and thus-far losing choice of our Ticker Trax service. I own the shares. When I spoke with Bob on Tuesday, I told him I was rattled that tiny Antioquia Gold is seeking money for its Cisneros drill program in the Department of Antioquia at this gosh-awful low stock price of 22 cents Canadian. He said, “They get no credit for anything in the ground as of yet. But the eggs are there and now that we have the structural approach down, I think we will see those pods connect quite nicely.” We shall see.

PERU COPPER: Antares Minerals (TSX: V.ANM, Stock Forum) CEO John Black says Xstrata Copper is now full steam ahead on the vast copper project right next to Antares’ Haquira in Peru. Australia’s Xstrata Copper, part of Switzerland’s Xstrata Plc (OTO: XSRAF, Stock Forum), says it will require about $4 billion for developing its Las Bambas project, which I flew over (with John Black and Antares founder Paul Zweng). “I don’t think we could ask for a better indication that Haquira is located in a favorable jurisdiction for investment in major mining projects,” Mr. Black says. “The development of the adjacent Las Bambas project may offer additional synergies that are yet to be explored. With six rigs turning and initiation of Pre-Feasibility Study (PFS) activities, we will see a steady news flow through to the end of the year and beyond. We have a solid cash position with more than $10 million in the bank. One of our most immediate challenges is to make the project as well known to the general investing public as it is to the world of companies interested in acquiring an asset of this quality. We are taking steps to answer this challenge with a near-term goal to see our market capital rise to a level more appropriate for a project of the quality of the Haquira Project. I think you will begin to see some results in from these initiatives in the next few weeks.” I do not own Antares shares but the idea is on my plate after a favorable review of Haquira in March and April of this year.

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NEW ORLEANS: This autumn I will be making two or three appearances outside of prospect tours. One of them is in New Orleans, where I appear each year at Brien Lundin’s New Orleans Investment Conference.

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