India's Trade Minister Nirmala Sitharaman recently announced that illegal gold seizures had jumped 30% in the previous year to $150 million.

In the last two years, Peru's government has aggressively reigned in and regulated 200,000 small scale miners - establishing environmental controls and creating tax revenue from the massive rogue industry.

The Company reported consolidated net revenues in the third quarter of 2014 of $123.9 million, a 6% increase over the preceding quarter.

Westhaven hunts for bonanza grade gold on its Shovelnose gold property.