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VANCOUVER, March 3 /PRNewswire/ - Guyana Frontier Mining Corp. ("Guyana Frontier", formerly Shoreham Resources Ltd.) is pleased to provide an update on its current exploration programs in Guyana, South America. Guyana Frontier has been active with camp development and diamond drilling at the Sardine Hill Gold Project, airborne geophysics covering five major property areas, and the interpretation of analytical results from the extensive geochemical sampling program in the Aunama...
VANCOUVER, March 3 /PRNewswire/ - Riva Gold Corporation (TSX-V: RIV) ("Riva" or "the Company") announces that it has commenced a diamond drill program on its Nine Mile Property ("Nine Mile"), a trenching/mapping program on its Honey Camp Property ("Honey Camp") and airborne geophysics on both its Nine Mile and Honey Camp Properties (together the "Properties") located in Guyana. "We are excited about initiating an extensive exploration program at our Nine Mile and Honey Camp...
VANCOUVER, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Guyana Frontier Mining Corp. (TSXV: GYG) ("Guyana Frontier", or the "Company", formerly Shoreham Resources Ltd.) and Infinito Gold Ltd. ("Infinito") have closed the transactions contemplated by the definitive purchase and sale agreement (the "Agreement") executed by the parties on December 22, 2010, and reported in a news release by the Company on December 23, 2010. Under the terms of the Agreement, Guyana Frontier has acquired (the...
LANGLEY, BC, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ - Shoreham Resources Ltd. ("Shoreham", or the "Company") (TSX-V: SMH) is pleased to announce that effective following the close of trading on January 28, 2011 it will change its name to Guyana Frontier Mining Corp. ("Guyana Frontier"). The shareholders of Shoreham approved the name change at the Company's Annual and Special Meeting, held in Vancouver, B.C. on November 30, 2010, and the Company has received approval from the TSX Venture Exchange...
VANCOUVER, Dec. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Riva Gold Corporation (TSX-V: RIV) ("Riva" or "the Company") announces that it has received approval from the TSX Venture Exchange for the previously announced transaction involving two agreements (through one of its subsidiaries) with the Pereira Group. The two agreements give Riva the option to acquire the rights to two groups of mineral properties in Guyana, the Nine Mile Properties and Honey Camp Properties, which include the Puruni...
TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- With the stock market so volatile and real estate in flux, many investors are banking on gold instead. A new website, Get24kt.com, lets investors buy directly from gold mines, minimizing financial risk and maximizing returns. Roger Singh, president of D.R.E.A.M. System, LLC, the parent company of Get24kt.com, explains that gold is a solid investment for anyone, not just investors with lots of market savvy. What makes gold such a prudent choice is its...
Two distantly related species of dolphin -- the Guyana and the Bottlenose -- often can be found socializing in waters off the coast of Costa Rica, according to a recent BBC report. Both species of dolphin make distinct sounds, but when they meet up, they change the way they communicate with each other by using a transitional language. It raises possibilities that the two species are communicating in some way. Details of the finding are published in the journal Ethology. It is not clear to...
TORONTO, June 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Guyana Goldfields Inc. (TSX:GUY) ("GUY" or the "Company") is pleased to announce more significant drill results at Sulphur Rose (property "A"), a new discovery at its Aranka group of properties. The Aranka group of properties are comprised of a contiguous 307,000 acre land package approximately thirty (30) kilometres northeast of the Company's flagship Aurora property, presently the subject of a definitive feasibility study. Assay results have been...
BEAVER, Pa., May 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Network of Digital Schools, a management foundation providing online curriculum and management services to schools around the world, has provided access to its premier Little Lincoln curriculum to the Bless the Children Home orphanage in Guyana, South America. "When NNDS learned of Bless the Children's efforts and desires to help children learn effectively, we wanted to find a way to help," said NNDS Director of Elementary...
CLEVELAND, April 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Stan Brock, the humanitarian who has been delivering free health care worldwide through his nonprofit organization Remote Area Medical (RAM) for 25 years, will receive the 2010 Inamori Ethics Prize, awarded by the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence at Case Western Reserve University on September 1 at the Inamori International Center in Cleveland, Ohio. He joins Dr. Francis S. Collins, previous leader of the Human Genome...
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The Red-throated Caracara, (Ibycter americanus), is a species of bird of prey in the Falconidae family. It is the only member of its genus Ibycter. It is sometimes incorrectly placed in the Daptrius genus with the Black Caracara. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. The habitats of this social bird are subtropical and tropical moist lowland forests...
The Ash-throated Crake, (Porzana albicollis), is a species of bird in the Rallidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its habitat is subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland and swamps. The Ash-throated Crake is a small bird with a short bill. It has black and olive brown streaks on the back. The tail is black and the underparts are slate gray. The...
The Yellow-banded Poison Dart Frog (Dendrobates leucomelas), or Yellow-banded Poison Frog, is a poison dart frog found in the northern part of South America in Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil. This amphibian is normally found in very humid conditions on trees or rocks. It can also be found in the seasonally drier forest islands in its range. It is commonly seen in leaf litter thought too dry for other Dendrobatids to survive. This species can handle lower humidity levels much better than...
The Ashy-headed Greenlet (Hylophilus pectoralis), is a species of bird in the Vireonidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and heavily degraded former forest.
The Venezuelan Red Howler Monkey (Alouatta seniculus) is a South American species of howler monkey. It is a type of New World monkey. It is found in Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, Guyana, French Guiana, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. It lives in groups of 3 to 9 individuals (usually 5 to 7).
