North American Gem Inc. announce that the TSX Venture Exchange has accepted for filing an option agreement dated September 5, 2008 between North American Gem Inc. and Appalachia Coal Corp., whereby the Company will acquire a 100% interest in Appalachia Coal Corp., a British Columbia incorporated company with 20,000 acres of coal leases located in [...]

Northern Shield Resources Inc. announce that an airborne VTEM survey has just been completed by Geotech Ltd over its 100% owned Wabassi property which is being explored for Ni-Cu-PGEs. In addition, Impala is funding an airborne VTEM survey over a portion of the Highbank Lake Property, which is believed by Northern Shield’s management to be [...]

Copper Mountain Mining Corporation announce that Mitsubishi Materials Corporation will join the Company in developing the Copper Mountain Project located near Princeton, BC. Effective September 30, 2008, the Company and MMC have signed a Memorandum of Understanding. Under the terms of the MOU, subject to several conditions, including approval of the board of directors of [...]

Xstrata Copper Canada announces that the Kidd Metallurgical site and CAW-Local 599 were unable to agree to the terms for a new collective agreement. As a result, CAW Local 599 initiated a strike. The existing collective agreement expired at midnight, September 30, 2008.
“Despite the Union having broken off talks at 2 pm on Monday, the [...]

James Bay Resources Limited announce that the Company has begun drilling on its McFauld’s Lake ‘Ring of Fire’ property in northern Ontario.
The initial 5,000 metre diamond drill program is focused primarily on the Company’s C and C-Extension Blocks. Drill targets have been chosen for testing based on highly-accurate VTEM airborne surveys which indicates a large [...]

EXMIN Resources Inc. announce the signing of the definitive agreement with Canarc Resource Corp. for a joint venture option on a portion of its 45,000 hectare Batopilas project land holdings. A letter agreement was originally signed in September, 2007. EXMIN has received 15,000 Canarc shares and a payment of US$25,000 as part of the [...]

Pacific North West Capital Corp. and Benton Resources Corp. are pleased to announce that drilling has commenced on the Heenan Property’s Hussey-Aube gold zone which is part of the Benton-PFN joint venture in the Swayze Greenstone Belt, southwest of Timmins, Ontario. Gold mineralization was first discovered by prospectors J. Hussey and A. Aube in 1997 [...]

Rio Tinto Alcan has successfully completed its rehabilitation of the Pramont industrial residue disposal site in the Valais region, which is now integrated into a regional framework for environmental protection on the left bank of the Rhone River between Sierre and Granges, Switzerland.
“This rehabilitation is the outcome of eight years of hard work and regional [...]

East West Resource Corporation and its 50% joint venture partner, Marshall Lake Mining PLC (PLUS: MLM) have received assay results for their recent drilling campaign on their Marshall Lake VMS (Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide) property, 252 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, Ontario. A total of ten holes were completed in the western portion of the property [...]

Petaquilla Copper Ltd. announced that Jochen Tilk, Ian Pirie, Fernando Martinez-Caro, Steven Astritis and John Sanders have been appointed directors of Petaquilla Copper effective immediately. Concurrently, Ralph Ansley, John Cook, Richard Fifer, Dale Lucas, Marcel Salamin and Marco Tejeira have each resigned as a director.
Additionally, Petaquilla has announced that Jochen Tilk has been appointed Chairman [...]