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Golden Tag Completes Initial Option on Aquilon Gold Property, Commencing Exploration for Additional 20% Interest

Golden Tag Resources Ltd. announce that it has completed its earn-in on a 40% interest in the Aquilon Main Gold Property in James Bay, Quebec. The Company recently issued assay results from its 2008 winter program on the Lingo Gold Occurrence on the Property (see press release, June 26, 2008) which included a gold intersect [...]

Kat Exploration Announces “Rusty Ridge” Property Ready for Drilling

Kat Exploration announce that exploration on it’s “Rusty Ridge” (IOCG) property was highly successful in identifying coincidental magnetic IP resistivity and soil geochemical anomalies that suggest potential for a body of Iron Oxide +/- Base, Precious and Rare Earth type mineralization, similar in style and setting to the giant Olympic Dam deposit in Australia.
Olympic Dam [...]

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Independent Nickel Corp.: Shareholder Meeting Set for Hunter Dickinson Transaction

Independent Nickel Corp. announced today that, further to its announcement of a proposed transaction with the Hunter Dickinson group, it has set a meeting date of September 17, 2008 to consider the proposed $14 million financing by a private company in the Hunter Dickinson group. The record date for such meeting has been set as [...]

Palladon Ventures Ltd.: Mining Begins Today at Iron Mountain

Palladon Ventures Ltd. (“Company”) (CDNX:PLL.V – News)(Frankfurt: PV-1) through its subsidiary, Palladon Iron Corporation, resumed mining operations today at the Iron Bull Mining & Milling facility at Iron Mountain, Utah. The historic mine has produced over 80,000,000 tons of material since 1853, but has not been actively mined since 1996.
Blasting and mining began today as [...]

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Mining employment slips

The average number of mining and natural resources jobs in Fairbanks dropped 14 percent in the first quarter of 2007 after five consecutive years of first quarter growth, according to figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
While preliminary figures show a recovery in the second quarter of 2007, the dip provides a glimpse of [...]

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Uranium Energy Corp. Announces Results of AGM

Uranium Energy Corp. is pleased to announce that, in conjunction with the holding of the Company’s recent annual general meeting of stockholders on July 24, 2008, the following matters were duly ratified by the Company’s stockholders and have now been implemented by the Board of Directors in the following manner:
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Particle Drilling Technologies to Present at the IPAA 2007 OGIS Small Cap Symposium

Particle Drilling Technologies, Inc. announced that the Company will be presenting at the IPAA 2007 OGIS Small Cap Symposium to be held in Florida, February 6 – 8, 2007.
J. Chris Boswell, Particle Drilling’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, is scheduled to present on Thursday, February 8, 2007 at 10:35 am Eastern Time. [...]

Alcoa Sends Letter to Alcan Board Outlining Commitments to Quebec; Will Meet Requirements of Agreement between Alcan and Quebec Government

Alcoa Inc. announced that it has reviewed Alcan’s continuity agreement with the Government of Quebec which identifies the requirements that Alcoa must meet regarding Alcan’s future operations in the Province in order to maintain certain of Alcan’s hydroelectric and water rights. In a letter to Alcan’s Board of Directors, Alcoa outlined the many ways in [...]

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South Australia is recording its highest ever level of mining exploration

The Department of Primary Industries and Resources has announced 11 new applications for exploration licences around the state, including one for uranium near Tumby Bay on Eyre Peninsula.
Mineral Resources Development Minister Paul Holloway says the mining industry is now worth $110 million to the state every year.
“As resources are discovered then they will in the [...]

Moncton wants N.B. to ban uranium mining

City council in Moncton, N.B., voted unanimously Monday night to call on the province to ban all uranium exploration and mining in New Brunswick.
The councillors are particularly worried about uranium exploration on the outskirts of the city.
The mining giant Vale Inco (formerly known as CVRD-Inco) is exploring for uranium south and west of Moncton.
A smaller [...]