Prize Mining & Eagle Plains Pour Gold at Yellowjacket Project, Atlin, BC

Prize Mining Corp. and its Joint Venture Partner, Eagle Plains Resources Ltd., have completed mining and milling activity for the 2009 season and have commenced seasonal clean-up and maintenance. The first gold bar was recently poured from concentrate materials milled on-site and weighs 2.284 kg. The project is operated through the Yellowjacket Joint-Venture (“YJV”), jointly owned by Eagle... 

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ECU Silver Achieving Excellent Progress on Mineral Resource Recoveries

ECU Silver Mining Inc. provides an update on recoveries attained on its mineral resource. ECU Silver’s mineral resource is primarily contained in sulphide mineralization plus additional oxide mineralization. The Company has been testing various methods to improve metallurgical recoveries within both these environments and has attained excellent results. Metallurgical recoveries are very important... 

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Great Basin Gold Successfully Completes Refurbishment of Esmeralda Mill

Great Basin Gold Ltd announces that it has completed the refurbishment of the Esmeralda Mill. The Esmeralda Mill will process material extracted from the Hollister Gold Project at which trial mining is currently underway. The commissioning process at Esmeralda commenced in mid July. The commissioning will proceed in two phases. Following the completion of a concrete ore pad, low grade material from... 

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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... 

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Slam Exploration announces zinc – lead – silver resource at Nash Creek

SLAM Exploration Ltd. announces it has received a draft 43-101 Technical Report and resource estimate from Wardrop Engineering Inc. for its wholly-owned Nash Creek Project in New Brunswick. Using a 2% Zinc Equivalent cut-off and after mill recoveries are factored in, Wardrop estimates the Nash Creek deposit contains an indicated resource of 7,807,900 tonnes grading 2.72% zinc, 0.55% lead and 18.26... 

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Global Gold Registers Significant Discovery in Armenia at Toukhmanuk

Global Gold Corporation announce that its exploration, test mining, and processing work has uncovered a significant gold and silver discovery in the Central Area of its Toukhmanuk property in the north central mineral belt of Armenia. Results of recent test mining, diamond drilling of over 20,000 meters, surface sampling of the No. 1 and 15 mineralized areas indicate that there are at least eighteen... 

South American Silver Corp. Reports Successful Extraction of Indium From Leach Solutions at Malku Khota

South American Silver Corp., reported that tests at SGS Lakefield, Ontario have successfully recovered 99.2% of the indium from the acid chloride leach solution into an aluminous cement. The Company believes that this would be a saleable indium product. Ralph Fitch, President of the Company stated “This is an important result for the project as it demonstrates very high recoveries of indium,... 

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Sabina Silver Announces Hackett River Study Update

Sabina Silver Corporation announced an update on work progressing at its 100% owned Hackett River silver-zinc project in Nunavut, Canada. Hackett River is a major silver-zinc deposit located approximately 75 kilometres from tide water in the Canadian arctic. Not only is it one of the largest undeveloped silver deposits of its type in the world, but it is located in one of the world’s most appealing... 

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Royal Standard Minerals Inc.: Goldwedge Project, Nye County, Nevada

The latest shipment of gold concentrates to Metals Research, the offsite facility has resulted in the production of 257 ounces of dore’. This current shipment of dore’ and the previous shipment that resulted in the production of 149.01 ounces dore’ are currently stored at the processing facility for safe storage. Upon the accumulation of at least 1,000 ounces dore’ this product... 

Scorpio Continues to Increase Lead-Zinc Concentrate Production at Nuestra Senora Project, Mexico

Scorpio Mining Corporation provide an operations update for the month of September from its 100% owned Nuestra Senora project, Sinaloa State, Mexico. Peter J. Hawley, Chairman, CEO reports, “Our Nuestra Senora operation continues to increase the amount of concentrates produced and delivered to our various off take partners, resulting in a constant cash flow stream. The Company’s plant personnel...