Friday, October 1, 2010

Meritus Minerals Appoints Ex Teck Executive To Special Advisory Board

I just want to highlight another recent winner that has a very prospective gold exploration property in Mongolia, Meritus Minerals MER.V. I posted about MER on September .20 when they released excellent high grade results from the first 3 holes at their Gutain Davaa property in Mongolia. Since then has traded between .22 and .25 cents giving you an excellent opportunity to get in. 10 days later you are up 50% :)

It seems that a lot of exploration companies I follow are scoring big with some big time execs. Earlier this week Mr. Harvey teamed up with Harte Gold Corp for a very good reason as they are going to aggressively explore the Sugar Zone property this year to see if it is indeed the birth of a new Hemlo style gold camp. Yesterday MER scored just as big appointing 21 year Teck exec Ken Thorsen to a Special Advisory Board. This man was responsible for building Teck! Well, not single handedly, but he ran exploration for Teck in Eastern Canada for 14 years and then 7 years out on the west coast as a senior exec in exploration with a 2 year spell as President. It all starts with exploration and if you don't have a good exploration team, then you will never build a mining company. Exploration is responsible for identifying early stage grass roots projects that eventually become company makers. It is how almost every mining good company is built.

Score a huge win for Meritus being able to appoint Ken Thorsen as Senior Technical Advisor to their newly established Advisory Board. Obviously the market approved in a sort of delayed reaction like Harte Gold Corp SP reaction and sent the stock to break out to a year high today and close a penny off that high at .34.

The volume could be a group that follows Ken Thorsen or it could be related to a leak of good news and more results going forward. Either way, Meritus' Gutain Davaa property in Mongolia just got a huge vote of confidence attracting such a big name as Ken Thorsen.

The first 3 holes drilled on the project all returned substantial intervals of gold mineralization
  • Hole 1 returned 7.3 meters grading 4.39 g/t au
  • Hole 2 returned 28.6 meters grading 8.78 g/t au
  • and 9.80 meters grading 4.06 au
  • Hole 3 returned 10.70 meters grading 8.05 g/t au
This is an excellent start to the drill campaign. In addition to these excellent drill results they announced they would adding a second rig to the property to complete the initial drill program by mid October.

Currently Meritus is awaiting assays from the lab from 6 more holes with 20 more holes planned to be drilled on the project by mid October.

They have also discovered a vein called the Ninja vein that is only partly exposed that they have traced for 25m with samples returning 113.4 g/t au, 122 g/t au, and 167 g/t au. All samples had widths between 0.5 and 1.39 meters.

See my original write up on September 20th...

http://westernrookie.blogspot.com/2010/09/mongolian-explorer-hits-bonanza-grades.html

Read the news of September 20th...


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