Gossan Resources Limited has retained Hatch of Montreal, Canada, to provide engineering process support for the Inwood Magnesium Project The agreement covers a 5-phase work program culminating with the opening of a Certificate of Authorization file with the Manitoba government for construction and environmental approvals for a production facility at Inwood, located in south-central Manitoba.
The [...]

MagIndustries Corp. report that it has received an updated National Instrument 43-101 Technical Report entitled “Updated Reserve and Resource Estimate for MagMinerals Mengo Permit Area, Kouilou Region, Republic of Congo” (the “Technical Report”) in respect of the property owned by its wholly-owned subsidiary MagMinerals Potash Corp. (”MagPotash”). The Technical Report updates the National Instrument 43-101 [...]

Wallbridge Mining Company Limited is pleased to announce exploration plans for copper-zinc and nickel targets on two claim groups located in north-eastern Ontario. The copper-zinc and nickel properties are located within Wallbridge’s Shipley and Hong Kong Township claim groups, approximately 10 kilometres southeast of Sultan, and about 100 kilometres north-west of Sudbury, Ontario. Both properties [...]

Bolivia’s state-run Empresa Siderurgica Mutunhas has signed a $2.1bn (£1bn) deal with Indian firm Jindal Power & Steel to mine large deposits of iron.
President Evo Morales said the deal marked the largest foreign investment the central South American country.
The area to be mined, on Mount El Muntun near the border with Brazil, has 40 billion [...]

BASE metals and coal company GVM Metals, which took a secondary listing on the JSE late last year, hoped to complete its bankable feasibility study on the Holfontein coal project before the end of March, it said yesterday.
The group recently raised its stake to 100% of the project through the purchase of the shares held [...]

Kodiak Exploration Limited is pleased to announce mobilization of its Phase II diamond drilling program at Caribou Lake, Northwest Territories. The drilling is planned to test the economic potential of this nickeliferous layered intrusion at depth, along the nine-kilometre nickel-copper-cobalt trend that was established by Kodiak’s shallow Phase I drilling in 2006.
The Phase I [...]

Russia’s Natural Resource Ministry’s environmental watchdog Rosprirodnadzor has begun examining the performance of the British company Peter Hambro Mining (PHM) in fulfilling its licensing agreements for the exploration and extraction of gold and titanium-magnesium ore in Russia.
In 2006, Rosprirodnadzor examined the execution of five licensing agreements issued to Peter Hambro Mining and the inspectors found [...]

Hydro is well-positioned for long-term profitable growth in its energy and upstream aluminium operations but industry capacity constraints delay oil and gas production growth, the Norwegian-based company said at its Capital Markets Day. Growing Hydro’s oil and gas resource base, pursuing upstream aluminium growth opportunities and maintaining cost control remain top priorities, together with completing [...]

Nuinsco Resources Limited announced positive metallurgical test results confirming that its 100%-owned Minago deposit will produce an extremely high-grade nickel concentrate. The concentrate produced in testing by SGS Mineral Services (Lakefield) (”SGS”) graded 27% nickel with a 57% recovery. Higher grades can be produced with a lower recovery.
“We’re extremely pleased with these results, particularly the [...]

Minera Andes (TSX VENTURE:MAI.V - News)(OTC BB:MNEAF.OB - News) is pleased to report the discovery of a new high-grade silver/gold vein parallel to the Frea vein at the San Jose project in Argentina. The new vein, drilled from underground workings accessed by the Frea vein ramp, intersected 1.24 meters of 4.56 g/t gold and 1,500 [...]