Wallbridge Mining Company Limited is pleased to announce exploration plans for copper-zinc and nickel targets on two claim groups located in north-eastern Ontario. The copper-zinc and nickel properties are located within Wallbridge’s Shipley and Hong Kong Township claim groups, approximately 10 kilometres southeast of Sultan, and about 100 kilometres north-west of Sudbury, Ontario. Both properties [...]

Asian Mineral Resources Limited announced the steps it plans to take to deal with the impact on its Ban Phuc nickel project of the recently announced increase to 20% in the Vietnamese export tariff on nickel concentrates.
AMR has initiated discussions with the appropriate Vietnamese governmental authorities and has begun enlisting the support of other interested [...]

The Board of Gladstone Pacific Nickel Limited announces that GPNL has entered into agreements to acquire 100% of the issued share capital of Egidia Pty Ltd (”Egidia”) and Dasines Pty Ltd (”Dasines”) (the “Acquisitions”), companies owned 100% by Mr Clive Palmer, in consideration for the issue of GPNL Shares representing a minimum of 50% of [...]

Oriental Paninsula Resourses Group Inc or known is about to be investigated by the Philippine Stock Exchange. The investigation is done on request by Nickel mining firm Platinum Group Metal Corp Inc. PGMC requested that the PSE investigate and suspend the trading of its shares for persisting to conduct mining operations in Palawan despite [...]

Allegheny Technologies Incorporated expects second quarter 2008 earnings to be in the range of $1.65 to $1.67 per share, including a $0.11 per share one-time net tax benefit. ATI had previously said that it expected second quarter earnings to be somewhat higher than the $1.40 per share achieved in the first quarter 2008.
“ATI is benefiting [...]

Albidon Ltd. said its first nickel-copper-cobalt-PGM concentrate has been produced at Munali Nickel Project located near south of Zambia’s capital city Lusaka.
The mining company said saleable nickel-copper-cobalt-PGM concentrate is currently being stockpiled ahead of collection for smelting by Jinchuan Group.
It also added its focus is now to complete commissioning of the concentrator and increase concentrate [...]

Oroya Mining announced its farm in and JV partner in the Roe Hills Nickel Project, Vale Inco, a wholly owned subsidiary of Vale, has advised that approx 1,300m of diamond drilling is scheduled to commence on 10 July 2008. The Company reported ground EM (MLEM) has commenced at Roe 1 and north of Talc Lake [...]

Argonaut Resources announced the highest nickel grade intercepts to date at the Company’s Century tenement in Laos. The latest results include trenching intercepts of up to 22m at 1.0% Nickel across disseminated nickel sulphide mineralisation at the Nam Hone East prospect on the Century tenement. The Company is planning a concentrated drilling program on the [...]

Norilsk Nickel expects its net profit under IFRS to slide to $5.3bn in 2007 from $5.96bn posted for the previous year, the Russian precious metals producer said in a memo prepared for the company’s annual general shareholders’ meeting scheduled for June 30. Meanwhile, the document states that, net of damage to business reputation, Norilsk Nickel’s [...]

Great Western Minerals Group Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has signed a non-binding Letter of Intent to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Less Common Metals Ltd. (”LCM”) of Birkenhead, United Kingdom, subject to the required regulatory approvals in the UK and Canada. The purchase price of this acquisition is [...]