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Far East Gold (ASX:FEG) shares jumped 6% in quiet Thursday morning trades as it reveals a giant Chinese silver miner is picking up just short of a 20% stake in FEG. It isn’t silver the Shenzhen stock exchange-listed company –Inner Mongolia Xingye Silver & Tin Mining – wants. Rather, it’s a project Far East Gold recently acquired, the Idenburg Gold Project in Indonesian Papua. Far East’s capture of a 51% stake in Idenburg remains pending, but made obvious by Thursday’s news is that significant investors see the deal going ahead smoothly. Xingye will pick up a 19.99% stake in FEG by way of a pla…

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