Lions Gate Metals Inc.: Poplar Property Land Staking Completed

October 22, 2008 Filed Under: Copper Mining  

Lions Gate Metals Inc. announce that the Company has completed their staking of the Poplar Project land claim with a total of 49,683 hectares surrounding both the Poplar and China Creek projects. These claims were staked to cover the entire potential porphyry copper body in the region. Work has commenced on the Poplar/China Creek project to prepare the property for the permit application process in... 

Lions Gate Metals Announces NCIB Intention

September 16, 2008 Filed Under: Mining Stocks  

Lions Gate Metals Inc. announces that it has filed with the TSX Venture Exchange a notice of its intention to make a normal course issuer bid. The notice provides that the Company intends to purchase up to 527,853 of its common shares by way of normal course purchases through the facilities Exchange representing 5% of the Company’s outstanding common shares. The actual number of shares and the... 

Lions Gate Metals Inc.: New Staking for Poplar Project

September 11, 2008 Filed Under: Molybdenum Mining  

Lions Gate Metals Inc. announce that the Company has completed additional staking of 7,785 hectares around the Poplar Project and now has a total of 9,255 hectares surrounding both the Poplar and China Creek deposits. These claims were staked to cover the entire potential porphyry copper body in the region, as a classic copper porphyry ore body usually covers a large area with a fairly uniform distribution... 

U.S. Mine Makers Goes ‘Green’ With Their Gold Recovery Process

August 4, 2008 Filed Under: Platinum Group Metals, Precious Metal  

U.S. Mine Makers, Inc. prides itself as “eco-friendly,” and this company model is evident in the gold and platinum recovery process they have developed and are implementing in their new pilot plant. The company’s new pilot plant and their future full-scale production plant are being designed to be much more environmentally friendly than gold processing plants that have traditionally... 

Advisory Board Members Join Lions Gate Metals

July 28, 2008 Filed Under: Copper Mining, Lead Mining, Mining Stocks  

Lions Gate Metals Inc. is pleased to announce the addition of two new members to its Board of Advisors; Mr. Kenneth Morgan, CA, CPA, and Mr. Craig Noordmans, BA, MA. Mr. Morgan is currently the CEO of Strategem Capital Corporation, a publicly-traded merchant bank listed on the TSX Venture Exchange. Mr. Morgan also served as a director and Chief Financial Officer of Petaquilla Minerals, where he was... 

Congo mine lured suitor

November 22, 2006 Filed Under: Lead Mining, Mining Services  

Five months after it launched a failed bid to buy two of Canada’s largest metals producers, Arizona’s Phelps Dodge Corp. was itself swallowed by smaller rival Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., a $26-billion (U.S.) takeover that was driven in part by a promising African venture between Phelps Dodge and a small Vancouver company. The cash and stock deal, the richest so far in a furious... 

Nickel merger is a mining disaster

June 27, 2006 Filed Under: Lead Mining, Mining Services  

What started last fall as a straightforward merger between Sudbury’s two long-time nickel producers threatens to become a sell-off to U.S. interests of a huge chunk of Canada’s mining industry ”” one of our few industries in which Canadians still call most of the shots. The proposed $40 billion (U.S.) mega-merger announced yesterday among the Canadian industrial icons Inco Ltd....