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Xanadu Mines has revealed a significant increase in the mineral resource estimate for its flagship Kharmagtai copper-gold project in Mongolia, reporting a 463,000-tonne increase in contained copper and a 746,000-ounce rise in contained gold. The boost has been driven by both the results of new drilling at the White Hill deposit and a refined pit design generated as part of the company's current prefeasibility studies.

Twigger's Tales (Aka Argonaut's deputy chair Liam Twigger) talks about the academic thrashing given to the methodologies used by the institution that many have used to make multi-million-dollar investments in far flung mining jurisdictions. He poses the question – who should we believe when assessing “in-country” jurisdictional risk when investing?

Billionaire geologist Robert Friedland's Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold discovery in Mongolia is of biblical proportions and just 120kms to its north west, ASX-listed Xanadu Mines is onto a copper-gold discovery that has already ticked over a billion-tonne resource and counting. Xanadu's Kharmagtai deposit is now taunting the market with its potential in a region that is capable of brewing ridiculous sized mineral deposits like Oyu Tolgoi.

Blackstone Minerals' recent drilling program at the company's Gold Bridge gold and nickel-copper project in British Columbia has returned a series of mineralised sulphide hits in Canada's western-most province. After the successful results, the company is gearing up for more exploration on the country's eastern coast.