Entree Gold Inc. has commenced drilling on the western target at the Lordsburg, New Mexico copper-gold porphyry project. The Lordsburg project is located within a southeast-trending belt which hosts several large current and past copper producers, including Freeport McMoran’s Morenci, Tyrone, Chino and Safford operations.
The budgeted drill program is planned to include 2,700 metres (8,850 [...]
Thompson Creek Metals Company Inc., one of the world’s largest publicly traded, pure molybdenum producers, today announced that Pamela L. Saxton has assumed all the duties and responsibilities of the Chief Financial Officer and Vice President, Finance, effective October 16, 2008. Her appointment to this role was previously announced in a July 29, 2008 news [...]
Happy Creek Minerals Ltd. wishes to provide a general update on the Company’s status. Happy Creek Minerals was designed from the beginning to minimize investment risk and maximize return potential.
The Company currently has $1.90 million of cash in the bank, and is taking steps to minimize overhead expenditures while continuing to perform low-cost exploration on [...]
Freegold Ventures Limited announce that it has now vested with a 100% interest in the underlying long term lease at its Rob property. The Company is also pleased to announce that its initial mapping and geophysics have identified new prospective targets on the property, and that the initial step-out drill holes at Grey Lead are [...]
Cabo Drilling Corp., Ontario Division, has signed a drilling contract with International Millennium Mining Corp. (IMMC) for an initial 2,500 meters of diamond drilling near the Waldman mine on IMMC’s Cobalt Area Property in Ontario. The purpose of the program is to test several strong targets identified by a MMI (mobile metal ion) sampling program [...]
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. and Phelps Dodge Corp. announced each company will hold a special meeting of its stockholders on March 14, 2007, to vote on the proposed acquisition of Phelps Dodge by FCX. Stockholders who hold shares of FCX and Phelps Dodge common stock at the close of business on February 12, [...]
Phelps Dodge Corp. will conduct a live audio Webcast of its fourth quarter 2006 conference call with the financial community Monday, Jan. 29, 2007, at 9:30 a.m. EST. J. Steven Whisler, chairman and chief executive officer, will serve as host and will review fourth quarter 2006 financial results, which will be released before the opening [...]
Geocom Resources Inc. is pleased to announce that the Company and Kinross Gold Corporation have mobilized their geologic teams to Region Ten of south Chile to evaluate its claims and to develop drill targets.
In November 2006 Geocom and Kinross staked a total of 318 claims in six separate claimblocks in Region Ten, based [...]
Luoyang Luanchuan Molybdenum Group Inc., one of China’s biggest molybdenum producers, plans a Hong Kong initial public offering in early 2007, company officials said on Thursday.
The state-owned company, located in central China’s Henan Province, plans to list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange to fund a planned smelter and mine expansion, the officials, speaking on [...]
Although the sale isn’t final, a Canadian company has agreed to purchase the Thompson Creek Metals Company and its local molybdenum mine for $575 million.
Kent Watson, Thompson Creek Mine manager, told The Challis Messenger this week that Blue Pearl Mining Ltd. is in the process of acquiring the company’s two mines and molybdenum processing facility [...]
