White Mountain Test Work Succeeds in Recovery of Feldspar From Rutile Flotation Tailings

January 21, 2010 Filed Under: Mining Services  
White Mountain Test Work Succeeds in Recovery of Feldspar From Rutile Flotation Tailings

White Mountain Titanium Corporation reports that it has successfully completed flotation test work to recover feldspar from natural rutile (titanium dioxide) flotation tailings. The test work program was carried out at SGS Lakefield (“SGS”) in Ontario, Canada. The aim of the program was to produce a low iron, feldspar concentrate from waste stream tailings acceptable for possible use... 

Blackstone Mobilizes Drill to Uma Cu-Zn-Au Project in Northern Sweden

January 19, 2010 Filed Under: Copper Mining, Precious Metal, Zinc Mining  
Blackstone Mobilizes Drill to Uma Cu-Zn-Au Project in Northern Sweden

Blackstone Ventures Inc. announces that a diamond drill rig has now been mobilized to its 100% owned Uma Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide (VMS) project in northern Sweden and will begin drilling immediately. This first phase drill program at Uma South (southern portion of the 235,000 hectare property) will consist of approximately 12 – 20 holes. Drilling will begin in the Uma South area to test... 

NovaGold Files Final Base Shelf Prospectus for Future Financings

January 2, 2010 Filed Under: Mining Investment, Mining Stocks  
NovaGold Files Final Base Shelf Prospectus for Future Financings

Further to its news release of December 7, 2009, NovaGold has filed a final short form base shelf prospectus with the securities commissions in each of the provinces of Canada, except Quebec, and a corresponding amendment to its registration statement with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. This shelf prospectus is intended to replace the Company’s previous shelf prospectus,... 

Argonaut Gold Seeks to Acquire Castle Gold for a Minimum of C$1.25 Per Share

October 28, 2009 Filed Under: Lithium Mining, Mining Investment, Mining Stocks, Precious Metal  
Argonaut Gold Seeks to Acquire Castle Gold for a Minimum of C$1.25 Per Share

CASTLE GOLD CORPORATION announce today that it has entered into a support agreement with Argonaut Gold Inc. (“Argonaut”) in connection with the proposed acquisition (the “Offer”) by Argonaut of all of the common shares of Castle Gold Corporation (“Castle Gold”). Under the terms of the Support Agreement, Argonaut will offer to acquire, by way of a take-over bid, all... 

Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp. Announces Pricing of Underwritten Public Offering of Common Stock

October 27, 2009 Filed Under: Mining Investment, Mining Stocks, Oil and Gas  
Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp. Announces Pricing of Underwritten Public Offering of Common Stock

Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp. announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 12,000,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $2.20 per share. The offering is being made pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement that Kodiak filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 14, 2008. The net proceeds of the offering, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions... 

Fortune Minerals engages BNP Paribas to arrange NICO Project debt facility

October 21, 2009 Filed Under: Mining Investment, Mining Stocks, Nickel Mining  
Fortune Minerals engages BNP Paribas to arrange NICO Project debt facility

Fortune Minerals Limited announce that it has retained BNP Paribas to provide advice and financial services in connection with the arrangement of a US$ 200-250 million debt facility to finance the construction, start-up and operation of the Company’s NICO Gold-Cobalt-Bismuth-Copper development in the Northwest Territories. Based in Paris, France, BNP Paribas is a world class financial institution... 

Drilling Continuing on Three Hard-Rock Target Zones at Sacre-Coeur’s Million Mountain Gold Project

October 13, 2009 Filed Under: Precious Metal  
Drilling Continuing on Three Hard-Rock Target Zones at Sacre-Coeur's Million Mountain Gold Project

SACRE-COEUR MINERALS, LTD. announced that the second phase of core drilling is now underway on target Zone 9 situated on the 20km Million Mountain trend occurring on the Company’s Lower Puruni block of properties in Guyana, South America. As previously announced in a Press Release dated July 31, 2009, phase I drilling intersected several mineralized zones containing gold mineralization up to 4.0... 

Fleming Gulf’s Global Mining Technology Forum 1st -2nd March 2010, Dubai -UAE

October 11, 2009 Filed Under: Lithium Mining, Mining Services, Oil and Gas  
Fleming Gulf's Global Mining Technology Forum 1st -2nd  March 2010, Dubai -UAE

There is a real need of a highly modified technology for the mining industry today. Being an informational economy, we recognize the increasing availability of information given to us through various resources. On the other hand, we now have tools to enable us to garner great value from that information quite readily. New information products can better inform decision processes. As businesses are... 

Cronus Resources Ltd. Announces Reverse Take-Over

October 9, 2009 Filed Under: Mining Investment, Mining Stocks  
Cronus Resources Ltd. Announces Reverse Take-Over

Cronus Resources Ltd. announce that it has entered into an amended and restated letter of intent dated October 9, 2009 with Continental Gold Limited (“Continental”), an arm’s length Bermuda based gold exploration company with a portfolio of properties in Colombia, pursuant to which Cronus (or a subsidiary thereof) will amalgamate with Continental to further develop the properties... 

First Majestic to Acquire Normabec Mining Resources

September 15, 2009 Filed Under: Mining Investment, Mining Stocks, Precious Metal  
First Majestic to Acquire Normabec Mining Resources

First Majestic Silver Corp. and Normabec Mining Resources Ltd. have entered into a definitive agreement whereby First Majestic will acquire Normabec. The transaction will be an all-share transaction by way of plan of arrangement. The Agreement, among other things provides that First Majestic will acquire Normabec in exchange for the issuance directly to Normabec’s shareholders of 0.060425 First...