First Metals Inc. announce that the Company’s Fabie Mine has been named Development of the Year by the Quebec Mineral Exploration Association (Association de l’exploration miniere du Quebec, AEMQ). Since 1978, the association has honoured the dynamism and entrepreneurship of companies and individuals who contribute to develop the mineral exploration industry in Quebec.
The Fabie Mine [...]

Nevoro Inc. announces the commencement of exploration core drilling by Black Panther Mining Corp. on the Golden Loon Ni-Co-PGE-Au property located 80 km north of Kamloops, British Columbia.
As recently announced, Black Panther entered into an option agreement with Nevoro to earn up to a 50% interest in Nevoro’s interest in the Golden Loon property by [...]

South American Silver Corp., reported that tests at SGS Lakefield, Ontario have successfully recovered 99.2% of the indium from the acid chloride leach solution into an aluminous cement. The Company believes that this would be a saleable indium product.
Ralph Fitch, President of the Company stated “This is an important result for the project as it [...]

Farallon Resources Ltd. announces that that it has begun shipments of zinc concentrates from its high grade G-9 Project at the Campo Morado (zinc, copper, lead, silver, gold) property in Guerrero State to the port of Manzanillo, in Colima State on the west coast of Mexico. The first truckloads of zinc concentrates were shipped on [...]

Almaden Minerals Ltd. report on its 2008 exploration results from its wholly owned San Carlos property in Mexico where field crews of Almaden have been working in July, August and September of this year.
The 100% owned San Carlos Project is located in northern Mexico about three hours south of Monterrey City in Tamaulipas State. Almaden [...]

Zcom Networks, Inc. announces that the company has established a new wholly owned subsidiary, Allied Mineral Rights, Inc. which is in negotiation to acquire the gold mining rights and other mineral rights known as CLS #12 in Ridgecrest, California which includes a 160 acre placer mining claim. The mineral rights include the right to develop, [...]

ASARCO LLC attorneys announced today at a status conference with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Corpus Christi, TX that the Company’s plan sponsor, Sterlite (USA), Inc., has stated that it cannot and will not close the sale transaction under the parties’ existing purchase and sale agreement without a reduction in the $2.6 billion purchase price [...]

Amarc Resources Ltd. provides an update on its on-going exploration programs along the highly prospective Sitlika Copper-Zinc Belt, central British Columbia. The Sitlika Belt hosts significant potential for the discovery of copper-zinc rich volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposits.
Diamond drilling is testing the Bodine-Warren target, located within the 669 square kilometer Bodine Block of claims, in [...]

Copper King Mining Corporation, an ore mining, processing, and exploration company located in Southern Utah, today provided further updates concerning its operations.
Ore Body Discoveries
New drillings in the company’s current mine locations recently revealed that the ore body present is much larger than expected. In three drilled holes, several hundred feet from the known ore body, [...]

Happy Creek Minerals Ltd. wishes to provide a general update on the Company’s status. Happy Creek Minerals was designed from the beginning to minimize investment risk and maximize return potential.
The Company currently has $1.90 million of cash in the bank, and is taking steps to minimize overhead expenditures while continuing to perform low-cost exploration on [...]