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Victoria and Gateway Sign Definitive Agreement to Complete Victoria’s Acquisition of Gateway

October 1st, 2008
Victoria and Gateway Sign Definitive Agreement to Complete Victoria’s Acquisition of Gateway

Victoria Gold Corp. and Gateway Gold Corp. confirm that, further to each of their press releases dated August 19, 2008 and September 23, 2008, they have entered into an arrangement agreement to complete their previously announced friendly transaction pursuant to which Victoria will acquire all of the outstanding common shares of Gateway.
Pursuant to the terms [...]

Midlands Minerals Announces Adoption of a Shareholder Rights Plan

October 1st, 2008
Midlands Minerals Announces Adoption of a Shareholder Rights Plan

Midlands Minerals Corporation announce that the Company’s Board of Directors has adopted a shareholder rights plan effective September 30, 2008. The Rights Plan is effective immediately subject to ratification by the Company’s shareholders within six months.
The Rights Plan is designed to provide adequate time for shareholders of Midlands and the Board of Directors to consider [...]

Mineralogy Pty Ltd acquires a further .2047% interest in Waratah Coal Inc.

October 1st, 2008
Mineralogy Pty Ltd acquires a further .2047% interest in Waratah Coal Inc.

Mineralogy Pty Ltd, a privately-held corporation based in Brisbane, Australia, announced today that the Company acquired 115,400 common shares (the Shares) in the capital of Waratah Coal Inc. representing .2047% of the issued and outstanding shares of Waratah. The company bought the shares on market on 30th September 2008. The company has agreed to [...]

Fording Announces Securityholder Approval of Proposed Sale of Assets to Teck Cominco

October 1st, 2008
Fording Announces Securityholder Approval of Proposed Sale of Assets to Teck Cominco

Fording Canadian Coal Trust announced that the Fording securityholders have approved the plan of arrangement respecting the announced sale of Fording’s assets to Teck Cominco Limited. The special resolution to approve the transaction received the support of 98.71% of the votes cast by securityholders voting together as a single class and 98.70% of the votes [...]

Ivanhoe Mines Issues Statement on Market Activity and Discussions on Mongolia Project

September 30th, 2008
Ivanhoe Mines Issues Statement on Market Activity and Discussions on Mongolia Project

In response to queries received from investors, Ivanhoe Mines President and CEO John Macken said today that there are no adverse material events that would account for recent selling pressure on Ivanhoe Mines’ stock in trading on the Toronto, New York and NASDAQ exchanges.
Mr. Macken said that senior management of Ivanhoe Mines and its strategic [...]

Solid advances funds to Bearing Gold’s project in Columbia

September 30th, 2008
Solid advances funds to Bearing Gold’s project in Columbia

Solid Resources Ltd. announces that it has advanced a loan in the principal amount of $75,000 to Bearing Gold Resources Corp. As security for the Loan, Bearing Gold has issued: (a) a non-convertible promissory note with a term of one year and with an interest rate of 10% per annum; and (b) a general [...]

Jasper Mining Corporation closes $1,179,040 private placement with Anacort Capital Inc.

September 30th, 2008
Jasper Mining Corporation closes $1,179,040 private placement with Anacort Capital Inc.

Jasper Mining Corporation announce that further to its news release of August 21, 2008 it has now completed the non-brokered private placement, which closed in two tranches.
The first tranche closed August 28, 2008 and the Corporation issued 1,853,332 hard dollar units (”NFT Units”) at a price of $0.30 per NFT Unit and 971,621 flow-through units [...]

Petaquilla Copper Announces Transition of Petaquilla Copper’s Board of Directors

September 30th, 2008
Petaquilla Copper Announces Transition of Petaquilla Copper’s Board of Directors

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 [...]

MagIndustries Retains Morgan Stanley to Review Financing Strategies for MagMinerals Potash Corp.

September 29th, 2008
MagIndustries Retains Morgan Stanley to Review Financing Strategies for MagMinerals Potash Corp.

MagIndustries Corp. has announced that it will undertake a review of financing strategies for MagMinerals Potash Corp., and as a result has retained Morgan Stanley as financial advisor to assist with the process. MagIndustries effectively holds 69.7% of MagPotash.
MagIndustries Corp. is a Canadian company whose common shares are listed on the TSX-V Exchange and trades [...]

Alcoa Named to Climate Disclosure Leadership Index for Sixth Consecutive Year

September 29th, 2008
Alcoa Named to Climate Disclosure Leadership Index for Sixth Consecutive Year

Alcoa announced that it has been named to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index for the sixth consecutive year. This index, a key component of CDP’s annual Global 500 Report, highlights companies within the FTSE Global 500 Index that have displayed the most proficient approach to corporate governance in regards to climate [...]