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First Nickel Inc.: Gerry Bilodeau Appointed as General Manager-Sudbury Opertations

First Nickel Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Gerry Bilodeau as General Manager – Sudbury Operations. Mr. Bilodeau has many years of senior operations management experience with Falconbridge/Noranda, most notably as Manager Mining at the Kidd Mine D Project in Timmins and as Project Superintendent during development and construction at Falconbridge’s [...]

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Signing of Mutoshi Joint Venture Amended Agreement and Update on Kinsevere Stage II

Anvil Mining Limited, announced that it had completed an agreement with La Générale des Carrières et des Mines (“Gécamines”) and the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (“DRC”) on the terms of its Mutoshi Joint Venture (“JV”) agreement.
The Company is also pleased to announce that it has recommenced the engineering and design work for [...]

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WestCan Uranium Receives Saskatchewan Coal Exploration Approval

WestCan Uranium Corp., announce the Company has received notification from the Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment that the project proposal for the Company’s exploration program on the Old Channel Project located near Tobin Lake, has been approved.
The program has identified 18 potential drill sites on Coal Prospecting Permits held by WestCan and 15 potential drill sites [...]

Aurora Gold Corporation Is Pleased to Announce Drilling Has Begun on the Santa Isabel Property in the Tapajos Gold Province, State of Pará, Brazil

Aurora Gold Corporation, a mineral exploration company focusing on exploration and development in the Tapajos Gold Province, State of Parã¡, Brazil, is pleased to announce drilling has begun on the Santa Isabel property in the Tapajos Gold Province, State of Parã¡, Brazil.
Exploration at the Santa Isabel property has focused on a series of parallel gold [...]

El Paso Corporation Announces Tot Discovery

El Paso Corporation announced that the Tot exploration well, 1-ESS-185D, located in the ES-5 block offshore Brazil, is a discovery. Through its Brazilian E&P subsidiary, El Paso has a 35 percent working interest in the Petrobras-operated well. The well is located 30 kilometers offshore in 61 meters of water, and was drilled to a total [...]

First Metals Inc. Awarded Development of the Year Honours and Fabie Mine Life Continues to be Extended

First Metals Inc. announce that the Company’s Fabie Mine has been named Development of the Year by the Quebec Mineral Exploration Association (Association de l’exploration miniere du Quebec, AEMQ). Since 1978, the association has honoured the dynamism and entrepreneurship of companies and individuals who contribute to develop the mineral exploration industry in Quebec.
The Fabie Mine [...]

Canadian-Owned Gold Mine in Suriname Temporarily Shuts Down Due to Strike

The Rosebel gold mine in Suriname has been temporarily shut down after workers went on strike, company officials said.
A number of workers began the strike Thursday night at the mine, located about 100 kilometers (60 miles) south of the capital of Paramaribo, the mine’s parent company IAMGold Corp. said Friday in a statement.
Several calls placed [...]

Indonesia, Japan to build high-quality coal plant

Indonesian and Japanese firms agreed Friday to jointly build a factory to produce upgraded brown coal (UBC) in South Kalimantan province with an investment of 68 million U.S. dollars.
The project involves Japan Coal Energy as a ready buyer, Kobe Steel as contractor, Indonesia’s PT Arutmin as coal supplier, state-run oil firm PT Pertamina and the [...]

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Sierra Geothermal Power Completes Drilling at Reese River, Nevada

Sierra Geothermal Power Corp. reported today that drilling has been completed at the company’s Reese River Project, Lander County, Nevada. Well 56-4 was successfully drilled to a total depth of 1200 m (3930 ft). Testing for geothermal reservoir characteristics has now begun with results pending. The drilling program was operated by Sierra Geothermal’s US [...]

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Largo Continues to Report Encouraging Results From Northern Dancer Project, Yukon

Largo Resources Ltd. announce that it has received additional results for nine (9) drill holes as part of the recently completed 2008 program of 38 holes totalling 11,500 metres at the Company’s Northern Dancer Tungsten-Molybdenum property in the Yukon. These down-dip and in-fill holes continue to upgrade and expand the limits of the higher-grade tungsten [...]