The Company is pleased to announce that all of the warrants with an expiry date of April 11, 2008 have been fully exercised. These warrants were from the private placement announced on March 1, 2006. The total number of warrant shares exercised was 970,200 shares at an exercise price of $4.50 per share for total [...]

Ashburton Minerals announced excellent first-pass results of a surface geochemical survey completed over the Sunday Bore Project (E09/1308) in WA which indicate the presence of two uranium anomalies and one copper anomaly within the project area. In addition, field observations have identified the possible continuation of the Gifford Creek Carbonatite Complex into the project area. [...]

For major mining companies such as Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, the future life is a combination of their exploration work and enterprise: to find things on their own, to be approached by other companies in deals , or make acquisitions.
Rio growth with Alcan bought last year and is now off fighting an attempt by [...]

Copper King Mining Corporation, under the direction of its PR Firm Alexander Lindale L.L.C., has installed 55 full-sized billboards in LA County with 24 to follow in Utah. The billboards invite people to come and view the website for Copper King.
In conjunction with the billboards, there will be the release of a several-minute video [...]

Copper King Mining Corporation is pleased to announce that programmers are working to unite the websites of the two companies upon completion of the merger of the assets of the companies. The combined holdings will be very significant and the name of the company will be Copper King Mining Corporation.
Interested parties may view photos and [...]

Tri Origin Minerals Ltd - Strong estimates for zinc-copper project - Mr Bruce Robertson, MD; Boardroomradio is pleased to announce that Tri Origin Minerals Ltd has published an audio file. The following presentation “Strong estimates for zinc-copper project” is now available as an instant audio download to your computer. You may also transfer this [...]

Nickel fell for a second day in London on speculation rising stockpiles signal slowing usage as producers seek alternatives to the metal in stainless-steel manufacturing. Copper also dropped.
Nickel inventories monitored by the London Metal Exchange rose 1,446 metric tons, or 27 percent, to 6,834 tons, the exchange said today in a daily report, the biggest [...]

Shanghai copper fell on concern that overseas purchases by China, the world’s biggest consumer of the metal, may slow following a surge in imports this year and growing domestic stockpiles.
China’s copper imports rose 61 percent to 1.1 million metric tons from January to April from year-ago levels. Shanghai Futures Exchange stockpiles are at their highest [...]