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Constantine Extends Thick Zones of Massive Sulphide on the South Wall Target

August 11th, 2008
Constantine Extends Thick Zones of Massive Sulphide on the South Wall Target

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 Acquires Salt Production Company Located in Upstate New York

August 11th, 2008
Inergy Acquires Salt Production Company Located in Upstate New York

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 Announces Amendment of Private Placement

August 9th, 2008
Devonshire Resources Announces Amendment of Private Placement

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 [...]

PotashCorp Announces Strike by Unionized Workers at Allan, Cory and Patience Lake

August 8th, 2008
PotashCorp Announces Strike by Unionized Workers at Allan, Cory and Patience Lake

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 [...]

Pebble Creek engages consultants in India

August 8th, 2008
Pebble Creek engages consultants in India

Pebble Creek Mining Ltd. is pleased to announce that the Company has engaged two prominent consultants in India. A chronic problem in India is obtaining timely approvals for mineral rights and various required permits from state and central government officials. These engagements address this problem.
Mr. Darshan Lal served on the staff of the President [...]

Quadrem Teaches Strategic Sourcing to Mining Companies in Onsite Workshop

August 7th, 2008
Quadrem Teaches Strategic Sourcing to Mining Companies in Onsite Workshop

Quadrem Professional Services is offering companies in the Mining and Metals industries a new on-site, two-and-a-half-day class, “Strategic Sourcing: Seven Steps to Sourcing Success.” This workshop helps procurement and sourcing teams identify qualified suppliers, optimally manage RFP events, and negotiate effective contracts.
The class agenda includes a lecture for each of seven modules followed by a [...]

Polaris to purchase land in the Port of Long Beach, California

August 5th, 2008
Polaris to purchase land in the Port of Long Beach, California

Polaris Minerals Corporation announced that its subsidiary, Eagle Rock Aggregates Inc., (ERA) has satisfactorily completed its due diligence review of a parcel of land at Pier B, in the Port of Long Beach, California, and will complete the purchase for US$15.18 million. The transaction is scheduled to close on or about August 18, 2008.
With this [...]

Major Drilling Announces Purchase of Forage à Diamant Benoit Ltée

August 2nd, 2008
Major Drilling Announces Purchase of Forage à Diamant Benoit Ltée

Major Drilling Group International Inc. announced that it has completed the purchase of the exploration drilling company Forage à Diamant Benoit Ltée (”Benoit”) based in Val-d’Or, Québec (Canada) for an aggregate purchase price of $21,000,000 (consisting of approximately $17.5 million in cash and $3.5 million in liabilities) subject to customary price adjustments.
Through this purchase Major [...]

DuPont Titanium Technologies Announces a Price Increase for Titanium Dioxide Products in Latin America

August 2nd, 2008
DuPont Titanium Technologies Announces a Price Increase for Titanium Dioxide Products in Latin America

DuPont Titanium Technologies today announced a price increase for all DuPont(TM) Ti-Pure® titanium dioxide grades sold in Latin America.
Effective August 1 2008, prices for DuPont coatings, plastics, specialty, paper, and laminate titanium dioxide grades will increase $150 (US$) per metric ton in Latin America.
“While demand for TiO2 remains quite strong, our costs - from raw [...]

Long Beach Terminal acquisition agreement extended

August 1st, 2008
Long Beach Terminal acquisition agreement extended

Polaris Minerals Corporation today announced that its subsidiary, Eagle Rock Aggregates Inc., has extended the agreement to purchase the 12.4 acre Pier B site in the Port of Long Beach, California. The Company now has until August 4, 2008, to complete its due diligence review. Upon the conclusion of satisfactory due diligence, the transaction is [...]