Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, conducted an unreserved public auction on August 15, 2008 in Las Vegas with auction proceeds in excess of US$30 million. More than US$29 million of trucks and equipment (representing 95 percent of the total gross auction proceeds) was sold to buyers from outside the state of Nevada [...]

Mexoro Minerals Ltd. Adds Second Drill Rig To Its Cieneguita Project. Mexoro Minerals Ltd. announce that it is adding a second drill rig to its Cieneguita Project located in Chihuahua, Mexico. The current drill rig is now drilling to the west of the known limits of the mineralized zone and is finding significant intersection [...]

Intermap Technologies today announced that the Company has entered into a new distribution program with the Sabah Lands and Surveys Department in East Malaysia. The program, called Digital Sabah, will make available high-resolution 3D digital elevation data and imagery covering the entire State of Sabah.
Sabah, located on the Island of Borneo and the Malaysia Borneon [...]

Silver Dragon Resources Inc. announce that the Company has signed an agreement with Vector Engineering Inc. of Grass Valley, California to update a previously prepared National Instrument 43-101 technical report (see new releases dated February 6, 2007 and August 30, 2006).
The updated NI-43-101 technical report will cover five (5) new mineralized zones which were discovered [...]

Brush Wellman Inc. announced today that it has entered into a licensing agreement with Mafco Inc. of Largo, Florida to acquire corrosion protection coating technology as applied to beryllium materials.
The technology will be utilized on select beryllium metal and aluminum beryllium composite products manufactured by Brush Wellman’s Beryllium Products unit. The acquired Mafco technology includes [...]

Trade Winds Ventures Inc. announce the commencement of the 2008 exploration program on the Tuole Gold project, Xinyuan County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, P. R. China.
Xinjiang Entercor Mining Corp. (”Xinjiang Entercor”), a Joint-Venture Company between Western China Mining Corp. (80%), a Trade Winds subsidiary, and Xinjiang Dadi Mining Technology & Development Corp. (20%) is currently [...]

Constantine Metal Resources Ltd. announce that drill hole CMR08-14 has intersected mineralized rhyolite/chert and massive sulphide over a core length of 228.2 feet (69.56 meters) from 556.8 to 785 feet that correlates with Zone I mineralization in drill holes CMR07-09, CMR08-11 and CMR08-13. The better chalcopyrite-sphalerite mineralized part of the intersection is between 607.7 [...]

Inergy, L.P. announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Inergy Midstream, LLC, has executed a definitive agreement to purchase 100% of the membership interests in US Salt, LLC (“US Salt”), an industry-leading solution mining and salt production company located in Schuyler County, New York, between Inergy’s Stagecoach and Steuben County natural gas storage facilities. [...]

Devonshire Resources Ltd., is amending its recently announced non-brokered private placement.
The private placement will now consist of 2 million units at $0.16 per unit for gross proceeds of $320,000. Each unit will comprise one share and one warrant, each warrant entitling the holder to purchase one share at $0.21 per share for a period of [...]

Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. (PotashCorp) announced that unionized employees at its Allan Division, Cory Division and Patience Lake Division potash operations commenced strike action, effective 5:30 p.m. (CST) today. The 487 striking employees are members of United Steelworkers’ (USW) Local 7689 at Allan, USW Local 7458 at Cory and USW Local 189 at Patience [...]