Pele Mountain Begins Drilling at East Highland Gold Project

January 18, 2010 Filed Under: Precious Metal  
Pele Mountain Begins Drilling at East Highland Gold Project

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.... 

Nevada Company Introduces First Scalable Dry Recovery System For Lode And Placer Ores

January 9, 2010 Filed Under: Mining Services  
Nevada Company Introduces First Scalable Dry Recovery System For Lode And Placer Ores

After years of research, development, and testing, AU Goose, a mining service company in Reno, Nevada, has unveiled a solution to a long-time industry problem for junior and mid-level mining operations: How to extract and test heavy metal ores using a timely, cost effective, and dry method of recovery. AU Goose’s technology is the industry’s first modular, dry, non-toxic recovery system for both... 

Geotrace Accelerates Oil and Gas Discovery With Isilon IQ

October 27, 2009 Filed Under: Oil and Gas  
Geotrace Accelerates Oil and Gas Discovery With Isilon IQ

Isilon(R) Systems, the proven leader in scale-out NAS, today announced that Geotrace, a leading reservoir services provider, has deployed Isilon IQ to power a robust suite of seismic data processing and analysis applications used to accelerate worldwide oil and gas discovery. Using Isilon scale-out NAS, featuring its OneFS(R) operating system, Geotrace has created a single global namespace for both... 

Romios Provides a Status Report on the Drill Program on Its Trek Property in British Columbia

August 31, 2009 Filed Under: Oil and Gas, Precious Metal  
Romios Provides a Status Report on the Drill Program on Its Trek Property in British Columbia

The management of Romios Gold Resources Inc., a progressive Canadian mineral exploration company established in 1995, is headquartered in Toronto and is actively engaged in precious and base metal exploration across North America with a primary focus on gold, silver and copper, provide a status report on the exploration program on its Trek property in northwestern British Columbia that was announced... 

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

June 23, 2009 Filed Under: Uranium Mining  
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... 

La Cortez Energy Announces the Start of Drilling Operations for the Mirto-1 Well

June 9, 2009 Filed Under: Oil and Gas  
La Cortez Energy Announces the Start of Drilling Operations for the Mirto-1 Well

La Cortez Energy, Inc. an early stage oil and gas exploration and production company currently pursuing a business strategy in the energy sector in South America announce that Emerald Energy Plc., the operator of the Maranta Block where La Cortez will hold a 20% working interest, has begun drilling operations for the Mirto 1 exploratory well. The Mirto 1 well will be drilled to an estimated target... 

Thelon Ventures Ltd.: Winter Drill Program Completed at Pasfield Lake, Athabasca

May 27, 2009 Filed Under: Uranium Mining  
Thelon Ventures Ltd.: Winter Drill Program Completed at Pasfield Lake, Athabasca

Thelon Ventures Ltd. announce that Triex Minerals Reports that Two vertical holes were completed on the property, for a total of 2,116 metres. Both holes targeted the trace of the regional Cable Bay shear zone east of the lake, and east of the basement uplift block discovered under the central part of the lake during 2007 drill programs. Drill targets were the integration of surface geochemical anomalies... 

Perseverance Paying Off for Aura Silver at High-Grade Gold / Silver, VMS Project in Nunavut

May 26, 2009 Filed Under: Precious Metal  
Perseverance Paying Off for Aura Silver at High-Grade Gold / Silver, VMS Project in Nunavut

Aura Silver Resources Inc. is pleased to report the results of the Company’s analysis of airborne geophysical data which was undertaken during 2007 and 2008 by Fugro Airborne Surveys Corporation on the Company’s 100% owned Greyhound Lake property in Nunavut, Canada. The geophysical analysis was performed by L.E. Reed Geophysical Consultant. This assessment supplements our geochemical analysis... 

Uranium Star Engages Engineering Group for its Green Giant Vanadium Project in Madagascar

May 21, 2009 Filed Under: Vanadium Mining  
Uranium Star Engages Engineering Group for its Green Giant Vanadium Project in Madagascar

Uranium Star Corp. announces that the recent significant advances to the Green Giant Vanadium Project in Madagascar have dictated that the Company retain a consulting mining engineering company in order that additional metallurgical work and an order of magnitude study can be completed. This work would provide guidance for the existing field work program and a future Preliminary Economic Assessment... 

Significant Uranium Oxide Values Confirmed on DIOS Opinaca Nord Project

May 5, 2009 Filed Under: Mining Investment, Mining Stocks, Uranium Mining  
Significant Uranium Oxide Values Confirmed on DIOS Opinaca Nord Project

DIOS EXPLORATION reports its final results from last year end follow-up program on its OPINACA NORD uranium project (option to earn 50% from its partner Sirios Resources), LaGuiche metasedimentary Basin, James Bay area, Quebec, Canada. DIOS is operator of the project. The uranium radioactive zone reaching 800 meters long (targets A1, A2, A3) returned values of 0.617%, 0.162 and 0.103% uranium oxides...