Keep a lookout for these mining conferences being held in Australia that serious investors should attend.

2,000m RC program about to commence at the exciting Kollo gold project in BurkinaFaso. Testing infill and extension targets around previous high grade intercepts.Gold sector surging on the back of near record Australian dollar pricing.

Consequently Alto's initial target is a 1moz mineral resource capable of supporting 100kozpa gold production. Rating it as a SPEC BUY at 7c with a target of >15c. It should be noted that at 7c, Alto has a market cap of $10m and ~$4m in cash.

To be held in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, during October. If you are a serious investor you will not want to miss this event! Plus a quick easy to follow list of some of the main mining conferences being held in Australia that as an investor you should attend.

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Intro Text:If you have been wondering how the performance of companies in the Digger are going, here's a quick and simple review.

Oz Metals, looks at the Base Metals and Precious Metals Charts from a couple of months back, to give a complete overview of the market.

Inca Minerals Limited recently entered into an option to purchase 100% of the exciting Riqueza Project, located some 200km southeast of Lima in CentralPeru. The property is under-explored, given this, and with the quality of the management, and with strong leverage to exploration results should lead to be the key share price mover.

Unsurprisingly, the prices of most commodities have fallen in the wake of the UK's vote to leave the EU. The main exception is gold, which has benefitted from renewed safe-haven demand as well as the expectation that the uncertainty created by the UK vote could mean that interest rates stay lower for longer, notably in the US. That said, with falls of less than 5% on Friday, 24th June, the more industrial commodities have actually outperformed other "riskier" asset classes.

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If you have been wondering how the performance of companies in the Digger are going, here's a quick and simple review.

TNG has continued to progress the key Mount Peake V-Ti-Fe Project since our August 2015 update with the signing of a number of additional agreements relating to offtake, financing, development and permitting. These build on previous agreements as discussed in our earlier notes.

Development of Orinoco's 70% held Cascavel Gold Project in Brazil is well advanced. However hold-ups in customs clearances have delayed the expected start-up by 4-5 months, with commissioning now expected in the second half of June. All plant has now been delivered to site, with final construction underway.

Marindi Metals is commencing a 3,000m drilling programme on its highly prospective Newman Zinc Project, located at the northern margin of the Capricorn Orogen in central Western Australia. The Company acquired the project in mid-2015, and the results of subsequent work have highlighted the prospectivity of the Project.

Altech Chemicals has recently updated its Bankable Feasibility Study, as a result of ongoing optimisation activities on its proposed High Purity Alumina specialty chemicals operation, and is now concentrating on permitting and sourcing funding for the estimated A$100 million capital required to develop the project.