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JNR Discovers New Mineralized Zones on Way Lake Uranium Project

JNR Resources Inc. announce initial results from its 2008 exploration program, including the discovery of widespread outcrops of uranium mineralization on its 100% owned Way Lake uranium project. The project lands are located 55 kilometres east of the Key Lake uranium mine in the Athabasca Basin of northern Saskatchewan and comprise 17 contiguous claims totalling [...]

Nevada Copper-Intersects 773 Feet of 1.03% Copper in the Open Pittable North Deposit

Nevada Copper Corp. announce very significant high grade drilling results from the Company’s current 40,000 meter drill program, at its 100% owned Pumpkin Hollow Copper Development Property located in Nevada. Drilling continues to define continuity, thickness and expand the high grade copper mineralization. Specifically, following are the latest drilling results from the North Deposit.
Drill hole [...]

Shift to underground mining on way, Randgold Resources CEO Bristow predicts

The mining industry was about to experience a shift to underground mining away from opencast mining for environmental and cost reasons, Randgold Resources CEO Mark Bristow predicted in Johannesburg on Thursday. Just as underground mining had been rejected in favour of opencast mining in the 1980s, Bristow now foresaw opportunities for the reverse.
This would be [...]

Sector Roundup: Chinese Demand Boosts Nickel Producers, Regional Banks Slump on Bad Loan Worry

Among the sector activity stories for Wednesday, March 26, from AP Financial News:
NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of companies that produce nickel, a key ingredient in making stainless steel, rose Wednesday on fresh evidence of China’s growing appetite for the commodity.
NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of regional banks fell Wednesday after an analyst said bad [...]

U2009 Global Uranium Symposium Announced

The U2009 Global Uranium Symposium will be held May 9-13, 2009 at the Keystone, Colorado Resort & Conference located in the scenic Rocky Mountains, a two-hour drive from Denver International Airport and near several other ski resorts, lakes and snowcapped mountains.
The symposium will bring together uranium industry professionals and students representing the beginning of the [...]

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Mechel OAO Announces Inclusion of Its Shares on MICEX Quotation List

Mechel OAO, one of the leading Russian mining and metals companies, announces inclusion of its ordinary registered book-entry shares on MICEX quotation list V.
On October 9, 2008, MICEX Stock Exchange closed joint-stock company approved the inclusion of Mechel OAO ordinary registered book-entry shares, state registration number 1-01-55005-E as of April 29, 2003, on the list [...]

Crescent Point disposes of shares of Painted Pony Petroleum Ltd.

Crescent Point Energy Trust announces that on August 5, 2008 it closed the sale of 4,110,000 Class A Shares of Painted Pony Petroleum Ltd. to Shelter Bay Energy Inc. by way of private sale, and not through any market. The disposition is further to the April 11, 2008 Crescent Point press release announcing the [...]

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Xcel Energy Issues Additional Common Stock in over-Allotment Exercise

Xcel Energy today issued an additional 2,250,000 shares of common stock pursuant to the underwriters’ exercise in full of their over-allotment option. The over-allotment option was exercised in connection with the Company’s recently completed registered public offering of 15,000,000 shares of common stock sold on September 15, 2008. The additional shares were sold to the [...]

Mesa Uranium Retains AGORACOM To Provide Investor Relations

Mesa Uranium Corp. is pleased to announce it has retained the services of AGORACOM to provide marketing services.
AGORACOM will be responsible for raising awareness about Mesa amongst retail investors for the purposes of attracting new and prospective shareholders. As an exclusive small-cap content provider to Yahoo Finance Canada, AOL Finance Canada and every Blackberry device [...]

American Bonanza Restarts Copperstone Drilling

American Bonanza Gold Corp. (TSX: BZA)(FWB: AB2) (“Bonanza”) is pleased to announce that it has started its substantial exploration drilling program designed to significantly expand the recently announced high grade gold resources at the 100% owned Copperstone gold project in Arizona.
The drill program and targets have been selected by the Bonanza geologic staff based upon [...]