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SILVER STANDARD RESOURCES Inc.
ARGENTINA
Pirquitas Silver Mine is located in northern Argentina in the province of Jujuy. The property is at an elevation of 4,100 meters and is accessible by two all-weather roads. The mine is powered primarily by natural gas, which is supplied by a 42 kilometer-long natural gas pipeline installed in 2008 from the mine to an existing Trans-Andean pipeline. The mine is operating as a conventional open pit mine utilizing 100 tonne trucks and 12 m3 loaders. Ore is crushed and treated in a conventional mineral flotation plant. The concentrates produced from the plant are shipped to various smelters around the world.
Production for the full year 2010 is expected to be 6.3 to 6.5 million ounces of silver at an average cash production cost of between $11.50 and $12.00 per ounce of silver (net of by-product credits) and $17.00 to $17.50 per ounce total cash operating costs including royalties and taxes.

ENTRÉE GOLD Inc.
MONGOLIA
Heruga (Cu-Au-Mo): is located in the
South Gobi Desert of Mongolia
Heruga is a world class, copper-gold porphyry deposit with elevated molybdenum content located approximately 570 km south of the capital city of Ulaanbaatar and 80 km north of the border with China. Heruga is the southernmost deposit of the Oyo Tolgoi mining complex which is currently being developed by Ivanhoe and its partner Rio Tinto. Entrée retains a 20% interest in the mineral resources of the deposit.
Heruga was discovered in 2007 from drilling of a deep IP chargeability anomaly by project operator Ivanhoe. The Entrée-Ivanhoe (now OTLLC) Joint Venture was formed in 2008 and covers an area of 39,864 hectares which also includes the Hugo North Extension deposit.
2009: Oyu Tolgoi Investment Agreement between Ivanhoe Mines, Rio Tinto and the Mongolian government Javhlant exploration licence converted to mining licence
2010: Updated Inferred mineral resource estimate for Heruga. Integrated Development Plan for the Oyu Tolgoi mining complex
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