Revett Minerals Inc. 67% held subsidiary, Revett Silver Company, and its wholly owned subsidiary RC Resources Inc. is pleased to announce it has received notice from the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) that the draft Environmental Assessment (EA) covering final design modifications of the Rock Creek Project, located in Sanders County Montana, has been [...]

Opawica Explorations Inc. announces that it has closed a non-brokered private placement of $570,000 through the sale of 5,700,000 flow-through units at $0.10 per unit with Mineralfields Group acquiring 5,000,000 units of the offering. Insiders subscribed for 150,000 units of the offering. Each unit consists of one flow through share at $0.10 and one non-flow [...]

Benton Resources Corp. announce that it has agreed, subject to certain conditions, to subscribe to a non-brokered private placement in Coro Mining Corp.. The Company will, upon closing, acquire 27,272,727 units of Coro at a price of $0.11 per unit for a total investment of CAD$3,000,000, each unit consisting of one common share and one [...]

Iberian Minerals Corp. and its wholly owned subsidiary Minas Aguas Tenidas S.A. are pleased to announce that the first copper concentrates have been produced at the Aguas Tenidas mine on December 21st, 2008. The Aguas Tenidas mine is located in the Andalucia region of Spain. The copper concentrate was produced out of the copper flotation [...]

Northgate Minerals Corporation commented on the large trading volume of the Company’s shares and subsequent share price decline, which took place during market trading hours on Friday, December 19, 2008, on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and the NYSE Alternext. The company believes that the noted market activity was due to its deletion from the [...]

Copper Canyon Resources Ltd.and Egoli Resources Inc. (a private British Columbia Corporation) have agreed to amend Egoli’s option to earn a 75% interest in Copper Canyon’s wholly owned Abo Gold Property located in the Harrison Lake area of south-western British Columbia, approximately 130km east of Vancouver. Under the modified terms of the agreement, Egoli may [...]

George A. Brown, CEO, and Cary Pothorin, President, of Duran Ventures Inc. provide the following update for the Aguila Cu-Mo Target and the Pasacancha Ag-Au-Pb-Zn Target. Cary Pothorin, P.Geo., is a Qualified Person as defined in National Policy 43-101, and is responsible for all technical information contained in this news release.
In late November 2008, [...]

Pacific North West Capital Corp. announce the signing of a letter agreement pursuant to which it has acquired an option, exercisable until February 15, 2009, to purchase a 100% interest in Mystery Creek Resources, Inc. (MCR), a wholly owned Alaskan subsidiary of St Andrews Goldfields Ltd.. MCR’s assets include the Nixon Fork gold mine, located [...]

Indonesian lawmakers passed a new mining law Tuesday that will give the mineral-rich nation greater control over its resources, though analysts warn it could deter investment by multinational corporations.
Indonesia has some of the most abundant reserves of coal, copper, gold, tin and nickel and in the world has lured mining giants like Newmont Mining Corporation, [...]

Rockcliff Resources Inc. announce that it plans to carry out a winter drill program at its Snow Lake Project located in central Manitoba. Rockcliff intends to drill approximately 3,000 m during the first quarter of 2009. Additionally, Geotech Ltd. has completed a third phase airborne VTEM and magnetic survey totalling 927 line kilometres on the [...]