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[energyi] 30/3/2006 20:36

Sydney and Band-Ore to Combine Assets and Form Two New
Gold Focused Companies

Major New Presence in Canadian Timmins and Mexican
Sierra Madre Gold Districts

VANCOUVER - March 30, 2006 -- Band-Ore Resources Ltd (TSX:BAN) and Sydney Resource Corporation (TSXV:SYR) announced today that their respective Boards of Directors have agreed to pursue a plan of arrangement to amalgamate and subsequently reorganize the companies' combined assets, establishing two new public exploration and development companies: ¡§West Timmins Gold Corporation¡¨ and ¡§Northern Sierra Minerals Corporation¡¨. This plan of arrangement is subject to shareholder, court and regulatory approval.

West Timmins Gold Corporation will emerge as the dominant land holder in the West Timmins Gold Camp. The company will control over 105 square kilometres of the western extension of the Timmins Gold Camp, North America¡¦s most prolific gold district.

Northern Sierra Minerals Corporation will hold three district scale gold exploration projects in Mexico¡¦s Sierra Madre Gold Belt. In addition, Northern Sierra will hold diamond exploration projects in the emerging Wawa diamond district and will partner on a proposed joint venture with Goldcorp Inc. in the Red Lake District, both in Ontario.

"The combination of Sydney and Band-Ore¡¦s assets in the West Timmins Camp creates a dominant land position completely surrounding Lake Shore Gold¡¦s Timmins West discovery. The scale and scope of the land holdings will allow for an aggressive exploration program on this important extension to the 70 million ounce Timmins Gold District,¡¨ said Darin Wagner, President of Sydney Resource Corporation. ¡§In addition, the opportunity to focus on the Mexican gold projects by employing Northern Sierra as a new exploration vehicle will ensure shareholders are gaining value from the entire asset pool.¡¨

¡§The management of both new ventures is extremely strong and experienced in mineral exploration, finance and operations. Around the board tables, we will have a wealth of financial and exploration experience,¡¨ said Wayne O¡¦Connor, President of Band-Ore Resources.

¡§In order to build strategic land positions and realize economies of scale, the gold industry is undergoing significant consolidation at the producer-level,¡¨ said Wayne O¡¦Connor. ¡§The plan of arrangement between Sydney and Band-Ore is one of the most logical mergers we¡¦ve seen at the explorer/developer stage in Canada.¡¨

Under the proposed terms of the plan of arrangement, shareholders of each of Sydney and Band-Ore will receive, in exchange for their respective shares in Sydney and Band-Ore, one common share in each of West Timmins Gold Corporation and Northern Sierra Minerals Corporation, for every two shares of Sydney or Band-Ore held. Mailing of a Joint Information Circular respecting the shareholders' meetings to be convened to approve the plan of arrangement is expected to occur within the next month.

The two new companies to be formed by the arrangement are:

West Timmins Gold Corporation which will control a land package of over 105 square kilometres completely surrounding Lakeshore Gold¡¦s Timmins West discovery. The property includes 30 known gold occurrences , joint ventures with both Lake Shore Gold Corporation and Placer Dome (CLA) Limited as Manager of the Porcupine Joint Venture ¡V soon to be Goldcorp Inc. There is an existing inferred gold resource of approximately 4 mT grading 3.0 g/t gold (approximately 400,000 contained ounces). See Band-Ore press release of February 20, 2003.

Northern Sierra Minerals Corporation will emerge with the 99 square kilometre Montana de Oro project located in the heart of the Sierra Madre District covering the headwater source area of one of the largest placer gold districts in Mexico. There are currently 12 known zones of gold mineralization on the Montana de Oro project which have yet to be drilled. Northern Sierra will also control exploration rights to the Yoquivo gold district in the Ocampo area of Mexico and an important new joint venture with Goldcorp in the Red Lake District of Ontario.

The management teams and boards of both new companies will combine the existing financial, management and technical expertise of the Band-Ore and Sydney teams.

The proposed West Timmins Gold management team and Board of Directors will include:

Mr. Darin Wagner, President of Sydney Resources
Mr. R. Michael Jones, co-discoverer of the Glimmer Mine in Timmins and President and CEO of Platinum Group Metals Ltd.,
Mr. Frank Hallam, CFO of Platinum Group Metals and MAG Silver Corp.,
Mr. Wayne O¡¦Connor, current President of Band-Ore with 15 years finance experience,
Mr. Peter Crossgrove currently a member of the Board of Directors of Barrick Gold Corporation and former Vice-Chairman and CEO of Placer Dome Inc.
Mr. Thor Eaton, a member of Band-Ore¡¦s board since 1996.

The proposed management team and Board of Directors for Northern Sierra Minerals will include:

Mr. Wayne O¡¦Connor,

Robert Duess, Band-Ore¡¦s current Vice-President of Exploration,
Mr. James Fairbairn CFO of Band-Ore,
Mr. Peter Crossgrove,
Mr. Darin Wagner,
R. Michael Jones
Frank Hallam.
Thor Eaton

Media Conference

A media conference with Darin Wagner and Wayne O¡¦Connor will be held today, Thursday March 30th, 2006 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Vancouver, B.C. at 9:00am Pacific. For information, please contact Erin Airton at 604-808-6420. Further background information, including b-roll, is available.

Robert Duess, P.Geo and Vice-President, Exploration is the qualified person for Band-Ore Resources Ltd. technical disclosure in this release. Darin Wagner, P.Geo and President is the qualified person for the Sydney Resource Corporation technical disclosure in this release.

For further detail on both Band-Ore and Sydney Resources, please refer to prior disclosure at www.SEDAR.com.

[t0rnado] 30/3/2006 20:08

Best picks info here

[holdontightuk] 30/3/2006 20:05

Looks like good news to me.....wish I hadnt sold them!

[energyi] 30/3/2006 16:05

HALT! : who goes there?

1/
SUBJECT: Something is up?????????? Posted By: drillcore18
Post Time: 3/30/2006 08:21

For SYR and BAN to be halted at the same time.
We shall soon.


2/
SUBJECT: RE: Something is up?????????? Posted By: kzetmeir
Post Time: 3/30/2006 09:26

Its sure looking like a takeover to me.
Any thoughts on the selling price?

[energyi] 14/3/2006 22:58

HOT,
I hold a few shares and loads of $0.45 wts from last year's pp

[holdontightuk] 14/3/2006 22:46

Interesting one this. Dont understand the detail but like the management team. I hold as a result.

[energyi] 28/2/2006 08:07

Financial and market data
Issued and outstanding : 35,673,114
Fully diluted ........ : 43,800,30952
week high/low .... : $0.60/0.16
Recent price ..... : $0.35
Market capitalization $12.5 million

[energyi] 25/2/2006 11:46

Sydney Resource to focus on Allerston Deformation zone


2006-02-14 08:26 ET - News Release

Mr. Darin Wagner reports

SYDNEY TO DRILL GOLD OCCURRENCES ON ALLERSTON PROPERTY, WEST TIMMINS

Sydney Resource Corp. has recommenced diamond drilling on its Allerston property, a portion of the West Timmins project. The first drill rig has arrived on the property and a second is expected to be operational within the next 10 to 14 days.

"We are excited to have a drill up and running again on Allerston, a key component of our West Timmins project," said Darin Wagner, president. "Drilling will focus on two shallow zones of gold mineralization located 1.5 kilometres apart within the Allerston Deformation zone."

The first drill rig has been mobilized to test the West Allerston zone. Five drill holes are planned to systematically test the Allerston Deformation zone which, based on previous work, mapping and geophysical data, has a width of 350 metres in the West Allerston area. Prior work has identified a number of visible gold occurrences on surface in this area.

The second drill will focus on the Allerston Main zone located 1.5 kilometres to the northeast. Two zones of gold mineralization were intersected in late 2005 drilling in the Main zone area (see news as reported in Stockwatch Dec. 8, 2005) and will be the targets of this part of the program. The second drill is expected to arrive on-site shortly and begin drilling within 10 to 14 days.

[energyi] 09/12/2005 23:36

LSG: $2.08 +0.18 9.47% 1,725,205

[energyi] 09/12/2005 23:35

LSG's SURPRISING DISCOVERY

"The TGP was discovered by a couple of local prospectors in 1911 after a surface showing indicated 0.5-2 grams per tonne gold. Back then, drilling was time-consuming and expensive, so the property languished for a while, changing from prospector hands to those of major mining companies.

None of them did the obvious, which was to gather the database of information, put it into a modern platform and view it through computerized
technology.

Lake Shore officials did. They followed it down plunge and came up with an indicating mineral resource of 724,000 ounces of gold uncut.

"Holmer is almost a half-ounce (per tonne) grade deposit," says Lake Shore president and CEO Brian R. Booth.

"That sits head and shoulders above most deposits, except for Goldcorp Inc. At a half ounce it would survive a low gold price."
. . .
But the real jewelry box is not revealed until one passes 250-metre depths where results indicate a 25-metre intersection bearing 13 to 14 grams of gold per tonne. With the current drilling program, Booth is confident the results will reflect a positive economic position, allowing the company to push the pre-feasibility study forward to identify the parameters of mine development.

"We want to take the property to the next level," Booth says, "but we need to build ounces."

They also want to build ounces at their partnering DeSantis Gold Property with Explorers Alliance Corp. Recently, Lake Shore signed an agreement that could allow them to earn up to 70 per cent interest on the next "pearl" property.

...MORE:

[energyi] 07/12/2005 15:50

LSG: 1.87 +0.17 10.00% 487,299

SUBJECT: After The News Posted By: SGGroup
Post Time: 12/7/2005 09:38

Obviously, the folks waiting to 'Sell On The News' ambushed us yesterday, and now they're gone.
Not only was the news a 'Discovery', but it added very significantly to the share value of LSG as shown in the Raymond James analysis. The problem is that the market has been conditioned to employ trading tactics based upon past volatility of the sector.

Now that the crowd waiting to "Sell On The News" is out of the way, could today be the day that yesterday should have been? Somewhere soon, this value is going to be realized, and the minor uptrend is rising about 50 cents per month.

Hit that line and another big rise.... Hit that line and another big rise. LSG still looks powerful technically and the 'On Balance Volume Indicator (3 Years weekly) blasted up to a convincing new high yesterday.

A big flock of traders left yesterday and they're out of the way.

[johnrxx99] 24/11/2005 10:36

blueliner - re Shiloh, how much time and money do you estimate? Energy costs will hit everyone.

[blueliner] 24/11/2005 09:25

Impressive results despite my earlier scepticism
Extending decontamination business into Europe
Accent on TLM with Dunstable facility bedding in
Shiloh business obviously in a mess will need extra money & time to sort out.
Still concerned about energy costs ie gas if they're a user

[johnrxx99] 23/11/2005 11:14

A nice set of results:-

Synergy Healthcare H1 profit up 48 pct

LONDON (AFX) - Synergy Healthcare PLC, which supplies of surgical and
patient support services to hospitals in the UK and the Netherlands, has turned
in a 48 pct rise in first-half profits thanks to strong organic sales growth
across its operations.
Pretax profit rose to 5.0 mln stg from 3.4 mln stg previously, while sales
rose 75 pct to 50.4 mln stg
Dr Richard Steeves, chief executive of Synergy, said: "Looking forward, the
development of wider support services for patients together with our surgical
developments in the UK and Netherlands should see the group continue to sustain
its consistent track record of growth and profitability."
The group will pay an interim dividend of 2.0 pence per share, an increase
of 18 pct.
tc

Although this year has not been exciting, the company has done well and when the recent purchase is fully embedded it will go a lot further imo, dyor. Momentum Investor are still a holder.

[johnrxx99] 03/11/2005 15:12

Synergy Healthcare PLC
03 November 2005


For immediate release 3 November 2005


Synergy Healthcare plc

Notifitication of Results

On behalf of our client, Synergy Healthcare plc, we notify the London Stock
Exchange that the Company will be announcing Interim Results for the 26 week
period ended 2 October 2005, on Wednesday 23 November 2005.

An analyst briefing will be held at 09:30 am on the day of the announcement at
Buchanan Communications, 107 Cheapside, EC2 6DN.


For further information please call:

Isabel Podda, Elly Williamson
BUCHANAN COMMUNICATIONS TEL: [phone]



This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

[energyi] 03/10/2005 21:57

LSG continues to Zoom higher

[energyi] 28/9/2005 15:44

The SYR wts. (at $0.35) change price this week- to $0.45

[johnrxx99] 28/9/2005 08:00

oils - me too mainly but getting a bit toppy.

[blueliner] 27/9/2005 12:34

johnrxx99 to clarify : TLM = total linen management (laundry), scenario where the contractor can opt to employ staff on customer's site managing/distributing linen stocks on par and reacting to hospital usage.
Can be renumerative is you see what I mean, Sunlight is the market leader by a country mile.
But not SYR's major activity in UK, but could be in Holland is it?

Not holding though had a good opportunity to buy 3-4 yrs ago but passed on it
I'll stick to oils.

[johnrxx99] 27/9/2005 10:17

blueliner - thanks for that. I agree with most of what you say but for as long as management get it right, the share price will grow and that's all I'm interested in as I'm sure you are. I don't know the management quality of TLM, indeed, who are TLM? Not into so called market leaders myself unless they are small and nimble.

Do you hold by the way?

[blueliner] 27/9/2005 07:15

johnrx99- My reference to less than rosy comments coming from the market leader, albeit mainly TLM as they are not into serious sterile instruments but have considerable clout in sterile textile side, was only trying to temper some gung ho expectations on this bb. Acquisitions so far have been astute, and after teething problems well sorted. Numbers have been consistently good to the state of wonderment and they have had taken the share price with it even for this sector, also holders can look forward to a time & surprised it had not happened already when somebody wants to sell out.

'it assumes SYR management are as thick as plants' from my comments above there not in the pond life league, neither is anybody who can transform a sows ear into a silk purse so quickly: backed by impressive net operating cash flow .
I am aware of NHS tender process being index linked, but you still have to kick off with a marketplace opening bid and thats where competitive margins are obviously being found. I haven't read the blurb of their TLM contracts in terms of forward business booked, just expect the unexpected, IMO, but I'm just a sceptic but don't ignore those cost pressures, they're not going away.

[johnrxx99] 26/9/2005 09:33

blueliner - what you state about costs, well power anyway, is true but I disagree with your conclusion because it assumes SYR management are thick as a plank. They know as well as I do, and I am thick, that energy costs have been rising for years.

The NHS contacts you refer to are not single page deals. They are very detailed and allow escalators for such increases and have done for decades.

Have no fear SYR are an astute operator and I suspect with the NHS under the cosh to clean up their act, the management (UK Government politicians) are not going to allow one of their potential saviours to go under or walk away. There are others out there but arn't they all in the same boat?