There are two types of headaches in the mining game, start-up headaches and production headaches. The first sets of headaches are painful as paperwork and approvals just never seem to end. The second sets of headaches are painful but perfectly pleasant as product rolls out and profits roll in.

Finding a company that has been through the first set and is ready to happily enjoy the second is one of the best ways to invest in an exploration and development mining company. An investor that can find a mining company that is past the exploration phase and in the production phase is an investor that will profit nicely, when commodity prices behave.

Petaquilla Minerals Ltd., an exploration and development mining company, works to find and extract gold resources primarily in Panama. The company has been working to delineate and define this particular find for some time and expects its first gold