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Arian Silver was recently profiled in Zeal Reports Favourite 20 Silver Stocks Research Report. Below is the excerpt on Arian Silver from the report. The full report is available via subscription only and can be accessed here. The report below was published in March 2007. ZEAL REPORTS SILVER STOCKS www.ZealLLC.com Excerpted from pages 20-21 AGQ Arian Silver Exchange TSX-V Cash $2m Market Capitalization C$37m Current Ratio 4.4 52-week Low C$0.225 52-week High C$0.65 Arian Silver is a fast-growing silver explorer that has ambitious plans for the future. Arian happens to be a United Kingdom-based company in which its name appropriately stems from the Welsh word for silver. Arian was founded by Welshman and distinguished geologist Jim Williams. Williams has extensive experience in the mining industry and has assembled a very strong management team that includes the current Chairman of Zeal Favorite junior gold company European Minerals and the CEO of Zeal Favorite gold/copper producer Northern Orion Resources. Arian Silver’s combined management team can boast extensive mining-industry successes and looks to be the right group of professionals that are capable of bringing to life profitable silver mines. And those active in the silver-stock world may be familiar with Arian. Since its listing on the TSX Venture Exchange last summer, Arian has aggressively marketed itself trying to get its story out to the investing public. Though think there is a fine line juniors walk in the whole promotional game, I do believe that Arian Silver has a story worthy of consideration for investors that are speculating in the small-cap silver realm. AGQ has a lot of room to run. Like many up-and-coming silver producers, Arian centers it operations in Mexico, an area that Jim Williams has been exploring for many years. And within this silver-rich country Arian is quite active in the prolific Zacatecas mining district, a region that has drawn countless mining companies in recent years due to its vast resource potential. Though it is just getting its feet off the ground, Arian has already set a short-term target of identifying at least 100 million ounces of silver resources. And given its already excellent prospects it appears to be well on its way to achieving this goal. Jumping right into Arian’s activities, December saw it initiate an aggressive exploration program at a number of the mineralized vein systems on its Calicanto concessions. Very small-scale historical mining has occurred on the Calicanto property and Arian Silver is currently focusing on two declines that intersect identified vein systems that may bode quite well for future mining operations. Drilling results from this exploration program are yielding excellent assay results with high-grade silver potential. The next area of focus for Arian lies in the Ojocaliente district. One of its main projects in this area is the recently acquired San Jose property. This property hosts the pastproducing San Jose mine that was operated by Penoles until its closure in 2001. There is a lot of potential at San Jose not only along the main vein that was previously mined but other identified veins on the property that have not yet been explored using modern exploration techniques. Since San Jose ceased operations due to bear-market-low silver prices, not because its resources were tapped, Arian believes there is significant potential on this property. It has just recently initiated an exploration program in order to identify resources and guide the direction Arian will take in possibly bringing San Jose back into production. San Jose was acquired for only $1.5 million and a small NSR and came with excellent infrastructure. If Arian is going to be producing silver by 2008 according to aggressive goals set forth by its CEO, San Jose might just be what gets it there. Also in the Ojocaliente district is Arian’s San Celso property which hosts several past-producing mines. There are a number of high-grade silver veins that Arian is targeting and a 2006 rehabilitation program refurbished two of the mine shafts in order to allow for extensive mapping and sampling. Arian believes the mineralogy of the current veins is conducive to advanced mining techniques that allow for a widening of the past work zones. It also sees great opportunity within the deeper never- exploited sulphide ores. Arian is currently evaluating its options on how to proceed at San Celso and 2007 should shine some light on this project. Another project that Arian will focus on this year is the recently acquired Tepal deposit. Tepal has a lot of potential and could turn out to be a monster find. The exploration concessions Arian now controls have previously been explored by mining majors Inco, Teck Cominco and Hecla. Arian is in the process of analyzing the piles of historical data on this project and is gathering more definitive data on what looks to be four very promising copper/gold/silver deposits. Arian is ramping up for a phase I drilling program on Tepal that it hopes to commence in the second quarter that should get it closer to defining resources. In addition to various other projects, Arian is in the process of evaluating tailings projects on producing properties in order to generate near-term cash flows. Arian Silver hopes to have something in the works by the end of this year. After a very active 2006 that greatly bolstered Arian Silver’s portfolio of excellent projects, 2007 should prove to be an exciting year. Considering its small market cap, Arian Silver is well financed to proceed with its aggressive exploration and acquisition plans which should move it closer to its ultimate goal of becoming a near-term silver producer. Arian’s current operations in the Zacatecas mining district are quickly moving this junior silver explorer into the limelight. And once its projects start pumping out qualified resource numbers, this stock should catch quite a bid.