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Lake Victoria Mining is focused on the rich underdeveloped gold reserves in Tanzania. Tanzania produced 1.75 million troy ounces of gold during 2007 and is the 3rd largest gold producer in Africa, behind South Africa and Ghana. Lake Victoria Mining Company, Inc. currently holds an eighty percent ownership interest in the Kalemela Gold Project. Up to 15% of Africa’s exploration expenditure has been spent in Tanzania, which is thought to have Africa’s largest gold reserves, after South Africa.

The company announced the addition of Michele Ashby to their Board of Directors. Ms. Ashby is the founder, owner and Chief Executive Officer of MINE, LLC, a Colorado company organized to promote selected natural resource companies to the investment community through private conferences. From 1988 through 2005, she was the Chief Executive Officer of Denver Gold Group Inc., which is dedicated and operated as a trade association for the mining industry. In that

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Dow rallies 300 points ahead of Obamamania, Can the President Elect orchestrate a miraculous market Turnaround? Part one of your “chicken long” ideas and plenty more…

The people of the United States of America prayed for a political messiah. Now that he has stepped forth, we are left to wonder, what next?

Politics is not really our beat here at the Rude Awakening, so we won’t be offering up any four-legged sacrifices for the promise of financial salvation. In the harsh light of economic reality, miracles are hard to come by, even for those claiming to posses the kind of optimistic foresight that defies rational explanation.

A cursory glance toward the economic horizon reveals some perilous obstacles ahead. As we walk through the valley of 5-year market lows, the shadow of the death of consumer spending looms particularly large. American consumers, upon the backs of whom almost two-thirds of the world’s

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Lake Victoria Mining Company, Inc. (OTCBB: LVCA) recently received significant and encouraging assay results from soil samples collected at the Kalemela gold project, located 125 kilometers east of Mwanza in northern Tanzania.

Preliminary results collected from over 1,500 soil samples continue to support earlier reports of anomalous gold within the approximately 70.7 square kilometers Kalemela exploration license. Previously reported, the anomalous area covers about 2km X 6km, as recent assays from soil samples have values that contain up to 1.6 grams/metric ton of gold. In order to confirm these initial results, the company will be conducting an additional assay from the preliminary samples, and by collecting additional samples from the anomalous locations.

Additionally, a detailed ground magnetic survey has been completed that will define geological controls for the high gold values. Early results from the magnetic survey indicate that northeast trending fault and shear zone

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Uranium Hunter Corporation (URHN.OB), a natural resource company focused on the exploration and development of uranium and gold deposits in East Africa, continues to push forth effort at its Ruhuhu site in Tanzania.

Throughout the summer, Uranium Hunter has been working on the Ruhuhu site. In July, the company’s helicopter performed an airborne magnetic and radiometric survey of the area. The 1,000 line kilometer provided the company with information to make determinations on where uranium would be most likely be present. In August, the company began its advanced field program at ground targets that were determined from the helicopter survey data. Systematic sampling was conducted at each ground target, followed by pitting and trenching at areas that indicated promising results.

By the end of August, Uranium Hunter found that its Target 4 area had readings up to 870 cps over a 25 m interval at the northeast

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Trading on the American Stock Exchange (AMEX), Tanzanian Royalty Exploration Corporation is a financial gold company whose business strategy is to acquire royalty interests in gold production from their core assets. These assets are in the Lake Victoria Greenstone Belt of Tanzania. This Belt is considered prospective for precious metals, base metals, and diamonds. With a market capitalization of $241.60 million, the company has their corporate headquarters in Surrey, British Columbia.

Tanzanian Royalty’s strategy is to develop their licenses under royalty agreements with industry partners. They have royalty agreements with Barrick Gold and Northern Mining Explorations. The company is also the largest individual landholder in the Kabanga Nickel Belt of Tanzania. This Belt is home to the high-grade Kabanga Nickel Project, which is a joint venture between Xstrata and Barrick Gold.

Founded in 1990, the company was formerly Tan Range Exploration Corporation and changed their name to Tanzanian Royalty Exploration

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Uranium Hunter is a publicly traded corporation with headquarters in Toronto, Canada and a focus on developing a portfolio of quality uranium exploration properties in East Africa. The company is already well positioned in the area with its 100% interest in the Ruhuhu property and letters of intent to acquire a 100% interest in two properties found in Western Uganda.

The company’s Ruhuhu proptery is located in southern Tanzania. The property covers the sediments of the Karoo sequence which shares features similar to that of the rocks of the Colorado Plateau in the western U.S., where uranium exploration companies have become prolific producers. In recent news, the company announced that its ongoing advanced field program has delivered very high Geiger-counter readings and that they will subsequently push forward with trenching, pitting and systematic sampling.

To further expand its portfolio, Uranium Hunter has also entered into letters of

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Uranium Hunter Corporation is a natural resource company devoted to the exploration and development of deposits of uranium in East Africa. The company has acquired properties in Tanzania that further enhances their position to become an established leader within the renewable energy industry.

Around the world nuclear energy is becoming a core issue for many countries. Currently, 30 countries representing two-thirds of the world’s population use some 442 nuclear reactors to produce 16% of global electricity. Expansion of nuclear energy is underway in some countries already like China and India, who have plans to quadruple their nuclear capacity by 2020.

The International Atomic Energy Agency has significantly increased their projection of world nuclear generating capacity, and they now anticipate at least 60 new plants to be built in the next 15 years. East Africa and Asia are two regions

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Uranium Hunter Corp (OTCBB: URHN) announced that ground targets have been mapped by a field crew now in place at its Ruhuhu exploration site in Tanzania. Previously a helicopter survey identified targets based on the geophysics of the land.

“Much has been completed to finally be at this stage of the project,” said Ghaith Qamheiah, president of Uranium Hunter, “and we are anxiously awaiting results of the field program. With the recent strengthening of the price of uranium, and the progress of our projects, we feel the future is bright for Uranium Hunter shareholders.”

The advanced field work at the Ruhuhu site includes systematic sampling, followed by pitting and trenching of specific targets to reveal uranium outcropping of Karoo sediments underlying the area. When they become available, the company stated that it will release the field program test results.

Photos from the Ruhuhu exploration site have now been

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There is always a chance for a reversal of fortune, but when it comes to mining in many parts of the world, governments come and go but the land remains. East Africa is a solid example. Years of strife have started to recede in several parts of the region with capitalism, and the desperate search for capital, beginning to take hold. Finding a mining company that has a background in their country of choice and people in place that understand current conditions is a solid way to profit where others may fear to tread.

Uranium Hunter Corp., a uranium and gold exploration and development company, works to identify and exploit uranium and gold deposits primarily in Uganda and Tanzania. Based in Toronto Canada, the company has been having solid results with its exploration activities; expecting further progress in East Africa sooner rather than later.

Although

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