Kirrin Resources Announces Drill Start-Up at Boxey Point Uranium Project
Kirrin Resources Inc. announced that field activities for the 2009 exploration program at the Boxey Point uranium project will commence on or about November 1, 2009. All supplies and equipment are expected in-place within 48 hours thereafter and drilling is scheduled to commence on November 3, 2009. The Boxey Point project is located on the south coast of Newfoundland. The Boxey Point program follows-up...
Cliffs Natural Resources to Exercise Right of First Refusal and Acquire Partners’ 73.2% Interest in Wabush Mines
Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. announced that it plans to exercise its right of first refusal and acquire U.S. Steel Canada’s 44.6% interest and ArcelorMittal Dofasco’s 28.6% interest in the Wabush Mines joint venture. On Oct. 9, Consolidated Thompson Iron Mines Ltd. announced an agreement with Wabush Mines’ other two joint venture partners, U.S. Steel Canada (44.6%) and ArcelorMittal Dofasco...
Royal Roads & Benton award drilling contract to drill new copper sulphide zone on Long Range Joint Venture, Newfoundland
Royal Roads Corp. and Benton Resources Corp. announce awarding a drill contract to commence diamond drilling of the recently discovered copper sulphide zone on the Long Range Joint Venture property in central Newfoundland. The contract has been awarded to Logan Drilling of Stewiacke, Nova Scotia and is expected to commence the week of October 12, 2009. The program is expected to include two drill holes...
Mountain Lake Provides Exploration Update on Little River Gold Property, Southern Newfoundland
Mountain Lake Resources Inc. report that field exploration work continues on the Little River Gold Property in southern Newfoundland and the Company is currently preparing access trails and trench sites for the next phase of sampling. Analytical results from the 2009 soil geochemical survey, carried out to the northeast of the 2008 survey grid, have returned the highest gold values to date. The trenching...
Marathon Announces Analyst Day at Marathon PGM-Cu Project
Marathon PGM Corporation announce it will host a site tour of the Marathon PGM-Cu Project on October 15, 2009. The site tour will provide mining analysts and investors with an up close and hands on view of the Marathon Project including geology and favourable infrastructure. Phil Walford, P.Geo, President and CEO, David Good, P.Geo, Vice President of Exploration and Raymond Mason, Vice President of...
AuEx Ventures, Inc.: Pequop South Gold Exploration Property Optioned
AuEx Ventures, Inc. a TSX listed precious metals exploration company that has a current portfolio of twenty three exploration projects in Nevada, one project in Spain and two projects in Argentina announce that it has entered into an Exploration Earn-in Agreement (“Agreement”) with Golden Dory Resources, Corp. (“GDR”) of Gander, Newfoundland, Canada concerning the Company’s...
Universal Approved to Commence Drilling Nevada Gold Property
Universal Uranium Ltd. report that its Notice of Operation for proposed drilling on its newly acquired Tact Project in Humboldt County, Nevada has been accepted by the Bureau of Land Management office in Winnemucca. Universal is currently bonding the proposed activities with the State Bureau Land Management office which includes 15 to 20 reverse circulation drill holes from 15 permitted sites within...
EagleRidge Minerals Ltd Begins 2009 Newfoundland and Labrador Exploration Program
EagleRidge Minerals Ltd. (ERM) is pleased to announce that field exploration crews have been mobilized from the Manitoba sites to the Newfoundland project sites. Field exploration work was performed on the Baie Verte area. The crews are now working on the St. Julien’s exploration project. Both project areas offer great opportunity for the discovery of gold and base metals mineralization. The...
Freeport Advances towards Feasibility at Hutton Garnet Beaches
Freeport Resources Inc., a junior mineral exploration company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange is advancing towards the feasibility study stage at its high grade Hutton Garnet Beaches project in Labrador, Canada. Permitting is in process for the 2009 bulk sample, and several governmental meetings were held in Newfoundland and Labrador last month to explain the proposal. The work is needed to confirm...
Paragon Minerals Options Winterhill Property to GFE Capital Corp.
Paragon Minerals Corporation announce the signing of a option agreement with GFE Capital Corp. on its 100%-owned Winterhill VMS Property. The Winterhill property is located 17 kilometres northeast of Harbour Breton on the south coast of Newfoundland, Canada. “We are pleased to have GFE Capital as a new exploration partner,” said Michael Vande Guchte, President and CEO of Paragon. “The...
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