Trade Winds Ventures Inc "TWD" is a well funded Canadian based public company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange. The shares also trade on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the symbol of TVR.The company’s primary focus is to enhance shareholder value by identifying, exploring and developing world class gold projects in Canada.

Current properties under development have been targeted due to successful results from extensive geophysics and drilling having already taken place during prior work programs. Trade Winds Had focused most of it attention and resources, On Block A , in the Detour Lake area Where Placer Dome mined more than 1.7 million ounces of gold. This area in Ontario Canada is where both the Detour Lake and Red Lake/Birch Lake mining districts, are located, and which host some of Canada’s largest and most profitable mines. The company has a 43-101 compliant resource of 804,391 ounces in the indicated category using a 1 gram per tonne cut-off, and 1.499 million ounces in the inferred using the 1 gram cut-off.

The Block A property currently operated by Trade Winds is a 50/50 joint venture between Trade Winds and Detour Gold Corp. (DGC - TSX).

Trade Winds completed it's 50% earn-in from Pelangio Mines Inc. in May 2006. Pelangio then sold their 50% interest of the Block A property to Detour Gold Corp in January 2007.

The company also owns a 100% interest in the following properties: Dardanelle; Treasure Mountain; and Nunavut. In addition, Trade Winds owns 80% interest through its Chinese Subsidiary, in the Tuole property Xinjiang, PRC. , and 60% interest in the Silu property in Guangxi province of PRC.

Tuole Gold Property
Xinjiang, Western China
Situated within the Yisijilike Au-Cu metallurgic belt, western
Tienshan Mountains, Xinyuan County
Exploration permits cover an area of 109.79 km² at low elevation
20 km of anomalous gold bearing structures with strong copper
and silver presence
Excellent infrastructure – located 14 km from the town of Xinyuan

The Silu Zn/Pb property

The company has indicated that it will spin-off Western China Mining shares to it's shareholders as a divident in early 2008. The company has intentions to follow through with similar spin-offs of it's Canadian properties. For more information, please go to the link below to see a 32 page PDF presentation. In addition to the ongoing exploration program at Detour Lake, Trade Winds Ventures turned its attention to their Treasure Mountain property in BC. According to the Regional Geologist of the BC province, The Treasure Mountain property is regarded as the next possible success story in BC! We should expect some information from Trade Winds Ventures regarding the recent activity at this property!