Rockcliff Commences Drill Program at Snow Lake Project

Rockcliff Resources Inc. announce that drilling has commenced on its Snow Lake Project located in central Manitoba. A minimum of 5,000 metres (m) of drilling are planned in approximately 30 holes. Drilling is planned on the Rail, Reed, Freebeth, Tramping and Squall properties. The targets include extensions of a known copper-gold rich horizon (Rail), additional testing of DPEM & BHPEM anomalies... 

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Alexis Completes Offer for Garson Gold Corp.

ALEXIS MINERALS CORPORATION announces that its bid to acquire Garson Gold Corp. has now resulted in over 90% of Garson shares being tendered to the Offer. This result confirms that Garson Gold shareholders are overwhelmingly in favour of the acquisition and the opportunity now present for growth in the value of the combined assets. The acquisition of Garson Gold gives Alexis a third project area located... 

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Newly Acquired Manitoba Intrusive Complex Yields High REE Values

Canadian International Minerals Inc (CIN) has been granted a 5000 hectare Mineral Exploration Licence (MEL) in the Knee Lake region in central Manitoba. The MEL covers the Cinder Lake alkaline intrusive complex (CLC) which has only recently been studied by the Manitoba Geological Survey (MGS) and the Department of Geological Sciences (DGS) of the University of Manitoba. The south eastern part of the... 

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HudBay to Re-Start Chisel North Mine and Snow Lake Concentrator

HudBay Minerals Inc. announced that it will re-start operations at its Chisel North mine and concentrator in Snow Lake, Manitoba effective immediately, with full production expected in the second quarter of 2010. The re-start of operations at Snow Lake is expected to provide approximately 30,000 tonnes of zinc concentrate feed to the company’s Flin Flon zinc plant annually. The capital costs... 

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EagleRidge Minerals Ltd Begins 2009 Newfoundland and Labrador Exploration Program

EagleRidge Minerals Ltd. (ERM) is pleased to announce that field exploration crews have been mobilized from the Manitoba sites to the Newfoundland project sites. Field exploration work was performed on the Baie Verte area. The crews are now working on the St. Julien’s exploration project. Both project areas offer great opportunity for the discovery of gold and base metals mineralization. The... 

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Western Areas-Mustang JV Commences Drilling at East Bull Lake

Mustang Minerals Corp. announced that a drill program at the East Bull Lake Project located 80 km west of Sudbury is commencing. The East Bull Lake Project is a joint venture with Western Areas NL, designed to investigate nickel-copper-platinum group metal (PGM) targets identified in the geophysical program. It is expected that three targets will be drilled in the current program. At East Bull Lake... 

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HudBay CEO Unveils Strategic Plan at AGM

HudBay Minerals Inc. unveiled a new strategic plan with a two-pronged growth strategy. “HudBay will pursue a strategy defined by two broad themes,” Peter Jones, HudBay’s chief executive officer, told the company’s annual meeting of shareholders. One emphasis will be to optimize operations in HudBay’s traditional home base of Manitoba. “We will grow our principal... 

Crowflight Declares Commerical Production at Bucko Mine

CROWFLIGHT MINERALS INC. announced that, as of June 1, 2009, it has achieved commercial production at its wholly-owned Bucko Lake Nickel Mine (Bucko) located in the Thompson Nickel Belt near Wabowden, Manitoba (commercial production being defined as throughput greater than 60% of mill nameplate capacity). Initial production at Bucko commenced during December 2008 and the first shipment of nickel concentrate... 

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Carlisle Goldfields Limited & Delta Uranium Inc. cancel business transaction

Further to press release dated February 26, 2009 Carlisle Goldfields Limited (Carlisle) wishes to announce the cancellation of a proposed business transaction with Delta Uranium Inc. (Delta). The transaction would have involved a vend-in of certain gold assets of a subco of Delta for consideration of 4 million shares and a post consolidated roll back of Carlisle shares on a 10:1 basis. As part of this... 

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Kinross Advises Canasia of Planned Drill Program on Debut Property in Nevada

Canasia Industries Corporation announce that it has been notified by Kinross Gold USA, who has a mineral lease agreement with Canasia on the Debut Prospect (announced Sept 9, 2008), that permitting to drill is expected to be filed in April on the prospect. The proposed plan will call for approximately 22 drill holes located on the property. Drilling is expected to take approximately 6-8 weeks. The... 

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