Fronteer Reports 87.5% Uranium Recovery From Aurora’s Pilot Plant Testing

Aurora Energy Resources, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fronteer Development Group Inc., announce that pilot plant leaching and resin-in-pulp (“RIP”) extraction tests on the Michelin and Jacques Lake uranium deposits in Labrador (the “Michelin Project”) provide strong support for the project’s viability and production potential. Highlights from the pilot plant and bench... 

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Aurora Introduces Michelin Project Community Panel Members

Aurora Energy Resources Inc. announce that the members of the Michelin Project Community Panel have been selected. The Company would like to thank all applicants for their expressions of interest. “We are pleased with the very high calibre of the people who applied,” said Mr. Bruce Dumville, President and CEO of Aurora. “From this diverse and talented group, a great team has been... 

Aurora Announces 2008 Exploration Program in Baker Lake Basin, Nunavut

Aurora Energy Resources Inc. announce its 2008 exploration program at its recently acquired Baker Lake Basin property in Nunavut, Canada. “We believe the Baker Lake Basin property hosts prospects that have potential for rapid growth and resource definition,” said Mr. Bruce Dumville, Aurora’s President and CEO. “We are impressed with the 2007 drill results and this year we will... 

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Aurora to Hold Public Information Meetings in Labrador on the Mining Process and the Michelin Project

As part of its ongoing commitment to consultation with residents of Labrador, Aurora Energy Resources Inc. to hold public information sessions called ‘mining and the future’, offering community members an opportunity to learn more about the mining process and the proposed Michelin Project. “The sessions will help people understand the proposed mine in the context of other mines in... 

Bayswater Commences Drilling Program on Newly Discovered Minisinakwa Lake High-Grade Uranium Showing, Central Mineral Belt of Labrador

Bayswater Uranium Corporation report on a high-grade uranium showing discovered in the Lake Minisinakwa area of the Central Mineral Belt of Labrador. Prospecting has uncovered a series of angular, frost heaved uraniferous boulders that are believed to be near source. The boulders occur along a linear topographic feature which coincides with a magnetic high anomaly, over a minimum strike length of 1.7... 

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Azimut outlines an extensive radioactive zone at Daniel Lake

Azimut Exploration Inc. reports the prospecting discovery of a 6-km-long radioactive zone on its Daniel Lake property in the eastern part of the Ungava Bay region of Nunavik, Quebec. The delineation of this new zone (the “Puqila Zone”) further confirms the district-scale uranium potential of the region. Azimut previously reported significant uranium mineralization on its adjacent North... 

Drilling Continues to Expand Anna Lake Uranium Deposit, Central Mineral Belt Uranium Project, Labrador

Bayswater Uranium Corporation is pleased to report additional drill results and provide an exploration update on its 2008 exploration program for the Central Mineral Belt Uranium Project, Labrador. Currently, exploration efforts are in full swing on the Company’s 100% owned property. Diamond drilling, geophysical, radon flux, soil geochemical, line-cutting and prospecting crews are all currently... 

Iran, Switzerland sign gas export deal

Iran and Switzerland signed an agreement Monday to major exports of Iranian gas to a Swiss company, in a rare energy deal between Tehran and the West in their nuclear tug-of-war drags on. “Today we have witnessed the signing of a gas contract between the two countries,” Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki announced at a joint press conference with his Swiss counterpart Micheline Calmy-Rey. Financial... 

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Bayswater’s Kanairiktok Bay Uranium Prospect in Central Mineral Belt, Labrador Yields 6.9% U3O8

Bayswater Uranium Corporation is pleased to report that final assays from its 2006 program in the Central Mineral Belt, Labrador have now been received and results include a grab sample from a biotitic shear zone on the Kanairiktok Bay Prospect that assayed 6.9% U3O8 and have confirmed the discovery of two new uranium mineralized radioactive targets-namely Stomach Lake and Stipec River Zone E (see... 

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HRM aims to buy a third of power from wind farms within the next three years

Halifax Regional Municipality hopes to buy about a third of its power from wind farms by 2009 – the equivalent of lighting every street lamp in the city with renewable energy. Jim Donovan, the city’s manager of economic development, said city staff will recommend council approve a plan to buy green energy. “It can happen just as quickly as us having approval from council and then...