Nuinsco Resources Limited provided an update of ongoing activity at the Huston Lake/Marijane Lake uranium property. Huston Lake is part of a 50:50 joint venture with Temex Resources Corp. covering both the Marijane Lake and Huston Lake properties located in southeastern Manitoba and northwestern Ontario.
As previously announced, a 2,705 line-kilometre helicopter-borne magnetic and radiometric [...]

Rio Tinto is to invest an additional US$300 million in the modernisation of the Kitimat aluminium smelter in British Columbia, Canada, bringing the current project funding total to over US$500 million.
“The Kitimat Modernisation Project leverages two of our greatest competitive advantages - clean, self-generated hydropower and internationally renowned AP smelting technology. This investment continues construction [...]

Lions Gate Metals Inc. announce that the Company has completed their staking of the Poplar Project land claim with a total of 49,683 hectares surrounding both the Poplar and China Creek projects. These claims were staked to cover the entire potential porphyry copper body in the region.
Work has commenced on the Poplar/China Creek project to [...]

Zcom Networks, Inc. announced that company management will visit the company’s 160 acre precious metals mine CLS#12 in Ridgecrest, California later this week. Management has also scheduled meetings with a team of geologists, mine engineers, and analysts to examine existing data and formulate a course of action for the installation and execution of preliminary extractions [...]

Continental Nickel Limited announce additional assay results from the second season of drilling on its 70% owned Nachingwea nickel sulphide project in Tanzania. The Nachingwea project is a 70:30 Joint Venture with IMX Resources NL (”IMX”) of Australia. Continental Nickel is conducting a C$7.0 million exploration program at Nachingwea in 2008 and is well funded [...]

Silver Standard Resources Inc. report that diamond drilling in 2008 at its wholly-owned Snowfield project has outlined a new gold-copper zone. The Snowfield property is located 40 kilometers north of the town of Stewart in northern British Columbia and 15 kilometers southeast of Barrick’s high-grade gold-silver mine at Eskay Creek.
The new Snowfield North Zone [...]

The Svea Court of Appeal has declared that the previous decision, made by the local Commercial Court in Seville, regarding provisional attachment to a value of EUR 141 million on assets belonging to Boliden, is enforceable in Sweden. The enforcement can only take place if the other party first provides Boliden with a security to [...]

Kalimantan Gold Corporation Limited announce the appointment of Arif Hadian as Manager of its Coal Division. Arif Hadian, who is a geologist, has worked in the East Kalimantan region for a number of years and has extensive experience in the coal sector, working for large international companies such as BHP Billiton, Essar and Sumitomo Corporation. [...]

Ted Drummond, Kingsman’s Chief Operating Officer, is pleased to announce the appointment of Boyd Hardwicke, P.Eng., a graduate of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. in 1955, as a consultant to the Board of Directors.
As a student, Mr. Hardwicke worked at Granby’s Copper Mountain mine at Princeton. He became Chief Engineer at the Granby [...]

FNX Mining Company Inc. announced that, due to low commodity prices and low provisional metal accountabilities along with high operating costs at its Levack nickel contact deposits, the Company has suspended “commercial” production from that part of its Levack Complex.
However, mining from the Levack nickel deposits will continue during the fourth quarter to produce about [...]