On Monday, Romarco Minerals (TSX: T.R, Stock Forum) shares climbed as much as 15% to $1.97 after the gold junior said it has drilled the fourth best hole ever completed on the Haile property in South Carolina, which included 23.0 meters of 45.8 grams per tonne (g/t) gold.
As well, shares of Manson Creek Resources (TSX: V.MCK, Stock Forum) shot up 186% to 20 cents as the micro cap explorer announced the discovery of three new gossans on the Tell property, located immediately south of ATAC Resources Ltd. Rau claims, in the Yukon. Reconnaissance soil samples collected in 2005 down slope from the Crystal Springs and Ash Springs Zones returned highly anomalous zinc, lead, arsenic and numerous other gold pathfinder element values. Manson Creek believes the four Tell property gossans to be of extreme significance due to the number of successful drill discoveries made on similar gossans in the region.
In Tuesday trading, Trafina Energy (TSX: V.TFA.A, Stock Forum) shares jumped as much as 15% to 39.5 cents after the oil and gas junior reported that its second well in the McMullen area of Alberta has been drilled, cored, tested and cased. Completion operations are underway and first production could occur in early August 2011, the company announced. Trafina also said it recently increased its working interest in the Rangeview/Divide area of Saskatchewan from 80% to 90%.
Also, shares of ZoomMed Inc. (TSX: V.ZMD, Stock Forum) moved up 29% to 13.5 cents as the company announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, ZoomMed USA, has entered into a major strategic alliance agreement with a Healthcare service provider, a web-based healthcare provider that offers a connectivity solution to about 30,000 U.S. physicians.
Wednesday’s market action saw shares of Golden Predator (TSX: T.GPD, Stock Forum) surge 19% to $1.26 after the gold junior announced initial drill results from Brewery Creek's newly discovered Sleeman Zone in the Yukon, which included 191.5 metres of 1.46 grams per tonne (g/t) gold.
In addition, shares of Critical Elements (TSX: V.CRE, Stock Forum) gained 27% to 26 cents as the micro cap explorer reported an update to the independent resource estimate for its Rose deposit in Quebec. The Rose deposit now consists of 26,500,000 tonnes of indicated resources containing 1.30% Li2O (lithium oxide) Equivalent (Eq) or 0.98% Li2O (259,700 tonnes of Li2O or 642,238 tonnes of Li2CO3 Eq), 163 ppm of Ta2O5 (tantalum pentoxide) (9,514,317 pounds of Ta2O5) and 10,700,000 tonnes of inferred resources containing 1.14% Li2O Equivalent (Eq) or 0.86% Li2O (92,020 tonnes of Li2O or 227,565 tonnes of Li2CO3 Eq), 145 ppm Ta2O5 (3,417,400 pounds of Ta2O5).
On Thursday, Rubicon Minerals (TSX: T.RMX, Stock Forum) shares powered 29% higher to $3.94 after the gold junior announced that Agnico-Eagle Mines will make a strategic investment of $70 million in Rubicon Minerals by way of a non-brokered private placement of 21,671,827 common shares at $3.23 per share. As a result of the private placement, Agnico-Eagle will own 9.2% of the issued and outstanding shares of Rubicon Minerals.
As well, shares of Carlisle Goldfields (TSX: T.CGJ, Stock Forum) added as much as 13% at 35 cents as the micro cap explorer reported results from the first six surface diamond drill holes from its 2011 drill program at the MacLellan Mine deposit in Manitoba, which included 47.46 grams per tonne (g/t) gold and 39.4 g/t silver over 3.0 metres.
And, in Friday trading, Brookemont Capital (TSX: V.BKT, Stock Forum) shares climbed 19% to 19 cents after the micro cap explorer reported that its field manager has visited the site of the recently-uncovered 4.5 km arsenic soil sampling geochem anomaly on its Tanzanian property adjacent to the north of Canaco's Magambazi Prospecting License. Trenching of the zone has uncovered a silicified zone and quartz vein and is being sampled for gold. Visible arsenopyrite was observed in the amphibolites associated with the quartz vein.
Finally, shares of Aura Silver Resources (TSX: V.AUU, Stock Forum) slid 26% to 16 cents as the junior miner said it has uncovered a new area of bedrock gold and silver targets in the northeastern part of its Greyhound claim group in Nunavut. Soil values greater than 2,000 ppb gold (2.0 g/t) and 5.98 g/t silver were delineated. Surface sampling of bedrock returned samples up to 6.49 g/t gold. To date, four targets have been defined for drill testing.