Pele Mountain Resources Inc. announced the start of diamond drilling at its East Highland Gold project in Northern Ontario. East Highland is 100-percent owned by Pele Gold Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. Pele focused its efforts at East Highland in the late-1990s, concluding with the successful mining and processing of bulk samples at the Markes and ‘A’ zones in 1999....
Alto Group Holdings, Inc., has announced that the Company has amended the previously announced Letter of Intent (L.O.I.) in regards to certain mining rights in Ghana, West Africa. Alto plans to form a joint venture with the mineral rights owners, Castle Peak Mining Ltd. and will formulate a definitive Joint Venture Agreement by the end of 2009. Under the terms of the amended L.O.I. the Company shall...
HudBay Minerals Inc. announced that it will re-start operations at its Chisel North mine and concentrator in Snow Lake, Manitoba effective immediately, with full production expected in the second quarter of 2010. The re-start of operations at Snow Lake is expected to provide approximately 30,000 tonnes of zinc concentrate feed to the company’s Flin Flon zinc plant annually. The capital costs...
Talon Metals Corp., announce the granting of two new exploration licences for potash and to provide an update on the Sergipe Potash Project located in Sergipe State, Brazil. In a news release dated May 25, 2009, the Company announced the acquisition of the Sergipe Potash Project and immediately commenced a detailed review of the available technical data. Subsequently, Talon submitted an application...
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...
Northern Superior Resources Inc. announce the initiation of its 2009 Wachigabau property summer exploration program. This program consists of bedrock mapping, sampling and prospecting with the intent of defining drill targets for the fourth quarter. Dr. T.F. Morris, president and CEO commented: “After the completion of a NI 43-101 report by Gestion Aline Leclerc on this project, a well defined...
Capella Resources Ltd. announce drill results (drill hole LJ-08011) from the Company’s 100% own Lajitas gold project in northern Chile. The core drilling intersected a zone of continuous gold mineralization of 261 meters grading 0.91 grams per tonne (g/t) gold between 90 meters and 351 meters down the hole. Contained within the intersection is 104.7 meters grading 1.59 g/t gold. LJ-08011 was drilled...
Lake Victoria Mining Company Inc. provide an update of exploration activities at its Kalemela Gold Project in northern Tanzania. This emerging gold exploration project lies northeast of the Company’s Geita Gold Project and 140 kilometers northeast of the town of Mwanza. The Kalemela Gold Project is assumed to be the western extension of the Kilimafedha Gold Mines, colonial mining district. At...
Meridium Inc., the global leader in asset performance management software and consulting solutions, announced that Samarco Mineracao S.A has implemented Meridium software to ensure the stability of its operations and industrial processes with practices that reconcile the best possible availability, with a guarantee of high reliability. Founded in 1977, Samarco is a pioneer in the processing of low-grade...
Silver Falcon Mining, Inc. announces its readiness to become a gold and silver producer at its mill in Melba, Idaho. Subject to final certification by the various regulatory agencies, startup, expected by the end of December 2008, will be conducted using tailings stored at the mill. Once the full milling circuit is online, precious metal production will be done on a continuous basis. The Company’s...