Grande Portage Resources Ltd. announce the start of its drill program at the Pass Property near Smithers, B.C.
The program commenced on August 9, 2008 and the first hole, PAS-08-01, was completed to a final depth of 63.4 metres. The hole intersected a rusty stained, pyrite-bearing quartz vein from 44.35 metres to 45.11 metres. From 45.11-48.16 [...]
Rio Tinto announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Cloud Peak Energy Inc., has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in connection with Cloud Peak Energy’s proposed initial public offering (IPO) of its common stock. Cloud Peak Energy, comprised of most of the North American [...]
Forsys Metals Corp is pleased to report that diamond drill hole VAL-152 encountered uranium mineralization to a depth of 499.7 m, 149 m below the proposed pit bottom at the Company’s wholly-owned Valencia Uranium project (”Valencia”) located in Namibia, Africa. The deep diamond drill hole was recently completed in addition to the current infill percussion [...]
Alcan Composites, part of Alcan Engineered Products - a business unit of Rio Tinto Alcan - received the 2008 BEX Award in the Best Use of Architectural or Structural Design category, using ALUCOBOND® for the modernization of a housing scheme in the Scharnhorst district of Dortmund, Germany.
“It is an honour to receive this significant award,” [...]
Katanga Mining Limited reports the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with its joint venture (JV) partner Gecamines that will be the basis for amending the Kamoto Copper Company (KCC) Joint Venture Agreement to incorporate provisions of the February 7, 2008 Agreement releasing the Dikuluwe and Mashamba West Deposits; merging the DRC Copper and [...]
Rio Tinto has announced an investment of US$652 million (Rio Tinto share US$341 million) to support continued pre-feasibility studies on a large, tier-one copper deposit at its Resolution Copper Mining LLC (RCML) operation in Superior, Arizona.
Pre-feasibility studies are expected to be completed by 2012 with production at the new mine expected to start by 2020, [...]
The Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC, a publicly listed company on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX: TAQA), announced today that it will release its second quarter and first half 2008 financial results for the period ending June 30, 2008 before markets open on Thursday August 7, 2008. In conjunction with the financial results [...]
Major Drilling Group International Inc. announced that it has completed the purchase of the exploration drilling company Forage à Diamant Benoit Ltée (”Benoit”) based in Val-d’Or, Québec (Canada) for an aggregate purchase price of $21,000,000 (consisting of approximately $17.5 million in cash and $3.5 million in liabilities) subject to customary price adjustments.
Through this purchase Major [...]
