Zinc Mining

Great Panther Develops Gold Rich Vein at Topia Mine

GREAT PANTHER RESOURCES LIMITED announce that continuing development along the Recompensa vein, at the Topia Mine, Durango, Mexico, is yielding exceptionally high gold grades in addition to silver, lead and zinc. The Recompensa Mine was one of many of the Topia mines that were reopened in January under new mining contracts. It contributed to the successful... 

Globex Royalty Remains Intact, Nyrstar Purchases Mid-Tennessee Zinc Asset

GLOBEX MINING ENTERPRISES INC. wishes to inform shareholders that Nyrstar NV, a significant European based, international supplier of zinc, lead and other valuable metals has purchased the Mid-Tennessee Zinc mine complex at Gordonsville, Tennessee. The sale, under U.S. Bankruptcy Court approval, includes all the assets of Mid-Tennessee Zinc Corporation... 

Franklin Resumes Phase I Operations at Bolivias Escala Mine Joint-Venture

Franklin Mining, Inc. CEO William Petty said the company has received funding necessary to resume operations at the Escala Mine effective May 1, 2009. Phase I operations at Franklin’s Escala Mine joint-venture are set to be underway at the end of this week including the delivery of stockpiled ore for processing at nearby plants. Revenues recorded... 

Pan American Silver Strike by Union Workers at Morococha Mine

Pan American Silver Corp. reported that Union workers at its Morococha mine in Peru initiated a strike yesterday after the Company and Union representatives failed to reach an agreement with respect to an increase in base pay and benefits. Contract workers are currently carrying out underground mining operations at a reduced rate while the Company attempts... 

Norsemont Mining Completes Strategic Land Acquisitions for Development of Constancia Project

Norsemont Mining Inc. announced the purchase of the fifth and final private land package for the development of the Constancia Cu-Ag-Mo project in southern Peru. San Antonio covers an area of approximately 1,443 hectares adjoining four other farms already owned by Norsemont, bringing the Company’s total land package at the Constancia project to... 

Arehada Updates on Operations and Related Party Loan

Arehada Mining Limited wishes to update on the operations of its wholly owned Chinese operating subsidiary, Arehada Mining Corporation . Currently, all personnel have returned to work and Arehada China is in the process of pumping water out of the mining wells. Arehada China expects to start mining and processing ore by the end of March 2009 and to... 

Slam Exploration announces zinc – lead – silver resource at Nash Creek

SLAM Exploration Ltd. announces it has received a draft 43-101 Technical Report and resource estimate from Wardrop Engineering Inc. for its wholly-owned Nash Creek Project in New Brunswick. Using a 2% Zinc Equivalent cut-off and after mill recoveries are factored in, Wardrop estimates the Nash Creek deposit contains an indicated resource of 7,807,900... 

Murgor starts drilling at Abbott Lake, Saskatchewan

Murgor Resources Inc. announced it will start a drilling program at its Fon property in Saskatchewan, on February 23rd, 2009. The drilling program will be testing a target defined by a large electromagnetic geophysical anomaly detected from surface by InfinitEM and confirmed by borehole Pulse EM method. The anomaly is located less than 100 metres on... 

Indochina Mining Corporation and Truong Son General Group Form Joint Venture Company for Nonferrous Mining in Northern Vietnam

PHI Mining Group, Inc., a majority owned subsidiary of Providential Holdings, Inc., announced that Truong Son Metal Mineral Joint Stock Company (TSM.CO), a joint venture company between Vietnam-based Truong Son General Group of Youth Volunteers and PHI Mining’s wholly owned subsidiary Indochina Mining Corporation (IMC), has been granted the corporate... 

Lundin Mining Closes Sale of Aljustrel Mine

Lundin Mining Corporation reports that the previously announced sale of its subsidiary Pirites Alentejanas SA, owner of the Aljustrel Mine in Portugal, has closed. All requisite regulatory approvals have been received and the Company has no further responsibility for the Aljustrel Mine. Lundin Mining Corporation is a diversified base metals mining company...