VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA - December 5, 2012 (Investorideas.com Mining Stocks Newswire) SilverCrest Mines Inc. (TSX.V:SVL) ( NYSE MKT: SVLC) (CW5.F) (the "Company") announces the grant of stock options to directors, officers, employees and consultants to purchase an aggregate of 1,760,000 common shares of the Company at an exercise price of $2.60 per share for a term of 5 years. One quarter of these options vest on the date of grant and a further one-quarter will vest every six months thereafter.

Read more: Mining Stock News: SilverCrest (TSX.V: SVL) (NYSE MKT: SVLC) Announces Grant of Stock Options

1. Pershing Gold Presses Forward: Low Hanging Fruit

While keynoting at the Hard Assets Conference in San Francisco two weeks ago Chris and I had the opportunity to meet with Pershing’s CEO Mr. Stephen Alfers.   This AM, Pershing Gold reported on their Fall 2012 drilling program.  The results were excellent.  The 83 hole program was designed to complete three objectives.  First to expand the gold resource, second to test the gold grades in the waste rock from previous mining in the 1980s and finally to test the depth of the water table.

Written by Chris Berry, MBA - [ Discovery Investing Web Site ]

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Point Roberts, WA - December 4, 2012 (Investorideas.com Newswire) Investorideas.com staff: Investorideas.com, an investor research portal specializing in sector research for independent investors issues a news and trading alert for agriculture stevia stock, Sunwin Stevia International, Inc. (OTCQB:SUWN). Yesterday the Company announced the installation of new High tech production lines to expand stevia production capacity to 1,300 Metric Tons.

The stock moved to .$0.30 in Tuesday morning trading following the news, making recent new highs.

Read more: Stevia Stock Alert: Sunwin Stevia (OTCQB: SUWN) Expands Production Facility: Health Canada...

Point Roberts WA - December 4, 2012 (Investorideas.com newswire) - Aethlon Medical, Inc. (OTCBB: AEMD), the pioneer in developing selective therapeutic filtration devices to address infectious disease, cancer and other life-threatening conditions, today announced the initiation of a compassionate-use clinical program to treat individuals infected with Hepatitis C virus (HCV). The compassionate-use program, which has been approved by the Institutional Review Board at the Medanta Medicity Institute (Medicity), will provide individuals who previously failed or subsequently relapsed standard-of-care drug regimens with treatment access to the Aethlon Hemopurifier®. The Hemopurifier® is a first-in-class medical device that selectively targets the rapid clearance of HCV from the entire circulatory system to improve benefit, dosing, duration and tolerability of drug therapies.

Read more: Medical Device Stock Trading Alert: Aethlon Medical (OTCBB: AEMD) Closes up 11.9% on News

BOGOTA - December 4, 2012 (Investorideas.com Mining stocks newswire) VSUS Technologies Inc. (OTCQB: VSUT) ("VSUS" or the "Company") announced today it has retired significant company debt. The Company is also announcing the resignation of two officers.

Kyle Gotshalk and Cherish Adams have resigned as officers of VSUS Technologies Inc. Their resignations were part of a debt settlement agreement and not due to any disagreements or conflicts with the company or its management. VSUS Technologies has entered into a debt settlement agreement with Ararat LLC that will reduce the company's liabilities by approximately $ 500,000.

Read more: Colombian Coal Stock Alert: VSUS Technologies (OTCQB:VSUT) Announces Retirement of Debt and Board...