Vantex Acquires One Exploration Permit for Oil and Natural Gas in the Moose River Basin

June 15, 2009 Filed Under: Oil and Gas  
Vantex Acquires One Exploration Permit for Oil and Natural Gas in the Moose River Basin

The management of Vantex resources Ltd has obtained one exploration permit for oil and natural gas in the Quebec portion of the Moose River Basin, located in the James Bay Lowlands. The permit covers an area of 25,000 hectares. The Salomon Lake oil seep, found within the exploration permit, is characterized by a milky white to greenish film on the surface of numerous ponds south of Salomon Lake (Salomon... 

Conway Releases Preliminary Results of Bulk Sampling on the Conway Paquin Property

December 2, 2008 Filed Under: Precious Metal  

Conway Resources Inc. announce the preliminary results of a bulk sampling program on the Conway and Paquin gold-bearing veins at its Conway Paquin property near Belleterre, in northwestern Quebec. Preliminary results from check samples returned weighted average grades of 31.15 g/t gold for the Conway vein and 19.88 g/t gold for the Paquin vein. “These spectacular results are very encouraging,”... 

Victory Nickel Acquires Additional Common Shares of Independent Nickel

October 18, 2008 Filed Under: Mining Stocks, Nickel Mining  

Victory Nickel Inc. announced today that pursuant to its offer (the “Offer”) to acquire all of the outstanding common shares (the “Independent Shares”) of Independent Nickel Corp. (“Independent”) (Toronto:INI.TO) on the basis of 1.1 of a Victory Nickel share for each Independent Share, pursuant to its offer to purchase and takeover bid circular dated August 19, 2008,... 

A 2000-Meter Drill Program on the Abcourt-Barvue and Aldermac Properties Starts Today

October 6, 2008 Filed Under: Precious Metal, Zinc Mining  

Mr. Renaud Hinse, president and C.E.O. of Abcourt Mines Inc., announce that a 2000-meter drill program on the Abcourt-Barvue properties starts today. On Abcourt-Barvue, one 175-meter hole is drilled to increase the indicated resources and on the Aldermac property, several holes will be drilled to extend the mineralized zone where excellent copper-zinc values were intersected in our 2008 winter drilling... 

Victory Nickel Extends Offer to Acquire Common Shares of Independent Nickel

September 25, 2008 Filed Under: Mining Stocks, Nickel Mining  

Victory Nickel Inc. announced that it has extended its offer to acquire all of the outstanding common shares of Independent Nickel Corp. on the basis of 1.1 of a Victory Nickel share for each Independent common share, pursuant to its offer to purchase and takeover bid circular dated August 19, 2008, as amended by its notice of variation and extension dated September 2, 2008, to 6:00 p.m. (Toronto time)... 

Northern Superior Resources Commences Fall Drill Program at Ti-pa-haa-kaa-ning Gold Project

September 18, 2008 Filed Under: Precious Metal  

Northern Superior Resources Inc. announce the commencement of a new drill program on its 50%-owned Ti-pa-haa-kaa-ning Gold property in Northwestern Ontario. Northern Superior is the project operator. The new drill program follows detailed bedrock mapping and sampling in the eastern part of the 33,248 hectare Ti-pa-haa-kaa-ning property over the course of the summer where several existing gold and base... 

Drilling Continues to Confirm Continuity at Victory Nickel’s Minago Deposit

August 29, 2008 Filed Under: Nickel Mining  

Victory Nickel Inc. reported further drilling results from the 2008 winter drilling program that continue to confirm continuity of nickel mineralization to depth beneath the large, open pit exploitable resource and for substantial expansion of the known resource at its Minago sulphide nickel project in Manitoba. The results from these holes complement those reported earlier from the 2008 work program.... 

Diamond Drilling Begins on Radisson Mining Resources’ Massicotte Project (Detour Lake Area)

August 26, 2008 Filed Under: Precious Metal  

Radisson announce that Arianne Resources Inc., its partner in the Detour Lake area Massicotte project, has advised that a diamond drill was mobilized to the property on August 11, 2008. The Massicotte property is adjacent to Detour Gold Corporation’s (Detour Gold) property, for which Detour Gold announced measured and indicated resources of more than 10.76 million ounces of gold . Inferred resources... 

Arianne Starts Drilling on Massicotte/Detour Lake

August 26, 2008 Filed Under: Precious Metal  

Arianne Resources Inc. announce that drilling is starting on the Massicotte/Detour Lake, Abitibi, Quebec. This property is under option from Radisson Mining Resources. The Massicotte property is adjacent to Detour Gold Corporation’s (Detour Gold) property, for which it announced measured and indicated resources of more than 10.76 million ounces of gold (press release of July 2, 2008). Inferred... 

Quest Acquires Uranium Property in the LG4 Area, James Bay Region, Quebec

August 22, 2008 Filed Under: Uranium Mining  

Quest Uranium Corporation announce that it has entered into an exploration property agreement with a Montreal-based prospecting group for the right to acquire a 100% interest in claims located in the LG4 area of the James Bay region, Quebec. The agreement with the prospectors covers a single block of 14 contiguous mining claims comprising more than 709 hectres in the Sakami Lake area of northwestern...