Melkior Resources Inc.: Ground Work Starts in Preparation for Drilling Eldorado

Melkior Resources Inc. has begun line cutting and ground geophysical surveying on seven grids designed to cover 9 separate electromagnetic conductors on its 100% owned Eldorado nickel property. The property is contiguous with Melkior’s Shaw Twp property and consists of 366 claim units or 5856 hectares and is located 20 kilometres southwest of Timmins city centre. A detailed VTEM survey by Geotech... 

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Nebu Reports Assay Results, Updates Timmins West Gold Area Exploration Progress

Nebu Resources Inc. provides the following update on exploration activities on its Denton Township projects adjacent to properties held by Lakeshore Gold Mines Inc., approximately 30 kilometers southwest of Timmins, Ontario. The Company holds two properties in the area, one of which has been the subject of recent diamond drilling while the other has been the subject of initial exploration and is now... 

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Blackstone Mobilizes Drill to Uma Cu-Zn-Au Project in Northern Sweden

Blackstone Ventures Inc. announces that a diamond drill rig has now been mobilized to its 100% owned Uma Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide (VMS) project in northern Sweden and will begin drilling immediately. This first phase drill program at Uma South (southern portion of the 235,000 hectare property) will consist of approximately 12 – 20 holes. Drilling will begin in the Uma South area to test... 

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Rockcliff Commences Drill Program at Snow Lake Project

Rockcliff Resources Inc. announce that drilling has commenced on its Snow Lake Project located in central Manitoba. A minimum of 5,000 metres (m) of drilling are planned in approximately 30 holes. Drilling is planned on the Rail, Reed, Freebeth, Tramping and Squall properties. The targets include extensions of a known copper-gold rich horizon (Rail), additional testing of DPEM & BHPEM anomalies... 

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Franconia Signs Land Agreement for Maturi Copper-Nickel-Platinum Group Metals Property

Franconia Minerals Corporation announces that it has reached an agreement with the South Kawishiwi Association LLC, a group of nearby cabin owners who are exchanging surface lands with the US Forest Service for surface rights over a portion of Franconia’s Maturi mineral deposit. Under the terms of the agreement, Franconia reinforces its right to access the Maturi Cu-Ni-PGM deposit – via... 

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Chesapeake Energy Corporation Announces $2.25 Billion Barnett Shale Joint Venture with Total E&P USA, Inc.

Chesapeake Energy Corporation announced the execution of an agreement for a $2.25 billion joint venture with Total E&P USA, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Total S.A. (NYSE:TOT, FP:FP) (“Total”), whereby Total will acquire a 25% interest in Chesapeake’s upstream Barnett Shale assets. Total will pay $800 million in cash at closing and will pay an additional $1.45 billion by funding 60%... 

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Vista Gold Corp. Announces Joint Venture Agreement for Awak Mas Gold Project in Indonesia

Vista Gold Corp. announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Vista Gold (Barbados) Corp., has signed a Joint Venture Agreement with Pan Asia Resources Corporation (“Pan Asia”) with respect to the development of the Awak Mas gold project in Indonesia. The Joint Venture Agreement provides Pan Asia, a privately held resource development company, with the opportunity to earn a 60% interest... 

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Silver Shield Further Increases Exposure to Gold in West Timmins Area

Silver Shield Resources announce that it has signed a Letter of Intent, to enter into an Option and Joint Venture located in what continues to be Canada’s hottest Gold exploration play, the West Timmins Area. The Company and a private company, Mhakari Gold, will each acquire 50% of four groups of strategically located mining claims, totalling 17 mining claim units, from an individual, and carry... 

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North Atlantic to Commence Trading on TSX Venture Exchange

North Atlantic Resources Ltd. announces that, further to its news release of December 1, 2009 the common shares of the Company will commence trading on the TSX Venture Exchange effective at the opening of trading on Friday, December 18, 2009. The Company is classified as a Tier 2 Mineral Exploration/Development Company on the TSX Venture Exchange. The common shares of the Company will cease trading... 

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American Petro-Hunter to Purchase Texas Gas Production and Reports on Operations

American Petro-Hunter, Inc. announce that the Company has entered into an agreement whereby the Company intends to purchase production from two existing gas wells from Texas-based Oxalis Energy Group. Under the terms of the Letter of Intent (L.O.I.), the Company is currently undertaking a period of due diligence on the project with a thorough review of project data and well production history of this... 

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