Star Uranium Corp. Mr. Rick Walker reports that a $750,000 exploration program on the Company’s Alexander Lake and Pardoe Lake uranium properties will commence in May. The properties are in the vicinity of JNR Resources Inc.’s Way Lake project where JNR reported bedrock surface samples grading up to 48% U3O8. Initially, the program will consist [...]
A project announced Monday would make Emmetsburg the home of the first commercial-scale ethanol plant in the United States to use corn waste — stalks, leaves and cobs — as the raw material to make fuel.
The $200 million project is headed by Broin Companies of Sioux Falls, S.D., which already operates six ethanol plants in [...]
SIERRA VISTA — The old joke about useless rocks being scientifically categorized as “Leaverites†often makes rock seller Ashton Bergstrand indignant.
But it wasn’t so offensive, the Tucson-based rock and mineral vendor added, in light of the good turnout on the first day of the Huachuca Gem & Mineral Club show Saturday. “It depends on the [...]
Robert T. Boyd, President and CEO of Ashton Mining of Canada Inc. , is pleased to report an estimated diamond content of 91 carats per hundred tonnes (”cpht”) for a 18.4 tonne sample collected from the North Anomaly kimberlite dyke on the Foxtrot property in north-central Quebec. Additionally, summer exploration drilling conducted by Ashton and [...]
Collection of 50 and 100 tonne samples in progress on North Anomaly and Hibou dykes
Robert T. Boyd, President and CEO of Ashton Mining of Canada Inc. (“Ashton†or the “Corporationâ€), is pleased to report early success from the Quebec summer exploration program with the discovery of a new diamondiferous dyke on the Foxtrot property. Additionally, [...]
Robert T. Boyd, President and CEO of Ashton Mining of Canada Inc. (“Ashton†or the “Corporationâ€), is pleased to report that a 71.3 tonne sample collected from the Renard 9 kimberlitic body on the Foxtrot property in north-central Quebec has returned 31.9 carats of diamonds, giving the sample an estimated diamond content of 45 carats [...]
Largest diamond a 1.71 carat octahedron
Robert T. Boyd, President and CEO of Ashton Mining of Canada Inc. (”Ashton” or the “Corporation”) (TSX:ACA), is pleased to report that the cumulative 49.8 tonnes of kimberlitic material collected from the northern end of the Renard 4 kimberlitic body (”Northern Zone”) on the Foxtrot property in north-central Quebec has [...]
