Ronson Corporation reported:
DECLARATION OF 5% COMMON STOCK DIVIDEND — The Company’s Board of Directors on February 1, 2007 declared a 5% stock dividend on the Company’s outstanding common stock. The 5% stock dividend is payable on April 16, 2007 to stockholders of record March 30, 2007. The 5% stock dividend will increase the outstanding common [...]

Chevron Corp. , the No. 2 U.S. oil company, said on Friday its fourth-quarter profit fell 9 percent, pulled down by weaker natural gas prices that have pared record earnings across the industry.
The decline in Chevron’s profit mirrors similar fourth-quarter drops at U.S. rivals Exxon Mobil , ConocoPhillips , and Marathon Oil Corp. — a [...]

Pioneer Natural Resources Company announced that Scott Sheffield, Chairman and CEO, will present at The Credit Suisse Energy Summit on February 8, 2007 at 8:50 a.m. MT.
Any interested person may listen to the live presentation and view the presentation slides during the conference, or hear an archived version afterwards, by logging on to Pioneer’s [...]

Fischer-Watt Gold Company, Inc. has completed the first tranche of the sale of its 65% ownership interest in its Mexican subsidiary, Minera Montoro, S.A. de C.V. to Rogue River Resources Corp. At the closing of this first tranche Fischer-Watt received $695,000 for 31% of its share ownership in Minera Montoro.
Fischer-Watt will receive $745,000 at each [...]

Global Gold Corporation (www.globalgoldcorp.com) announced that its board of directors has unanimously elected the following individuals to the corresponding offices:
Van Z. Krikorian, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Michael T. Mason, President & Chief Operating Officer Hrayr Agnerian, Senior Vice President Dr. Ted Urquhart, Vice President Drury J. Gallagher, Chairman Emeritus, Treasurer & Secretary Lester Caesar, [...]

Toronto stocks were poised to open lower on Wednesday, as weakening crude oil and natural gas prices drag down shares of energy companies, while investors digest quarterly results from aluminum giant Alcan Inc. and Nova Chemicals Corp..
Alcan said it swung back to profit in its fourth quarter, driven by higher aluminum prices and as the [...]

Xstrata Plc, the world’s fourth- biggest nickel producer, and workers at its Sudbury unit in Canada reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, avoiding a strike that would have shut down 4 percent of world production.
Details of the three-year agreement, reached minutes before a strike was set to begin at midnight on Jan. 31, [...]

Nuinsco Resources Limited announced that it has received final approval from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice of its previously announced plan of arrangement (the “Arrangement”) involving Nuinsco and a new company, Victory Nickel Inc. (”Victory Nickel”). Assuming receipt of other regulatory and third-person consents and approvals required in connection with the Arrangement, it [...]

Pure Nickel Inc. (”Pure Nickel”) is pleased to announce the commencement of its first phase of its 2007 exploration program on the Fox River belt in Northern Manitoba.
Pure Nickel has contracted Geotech Ltd. of Aurora, Ontario to carry out an extensive targeted high resolution VTEM airborne electromagnetic survey of approximately 2600 line-km over six blocks. [...]

GlobeStar Mining Corp. is pleased to announce an update on their Dominican Republic operations. The Company is focusing on three core activities, namely the construction of the Cerro de Maimon copper/gold mine, copper/gold exploration of the surrounding massive sulphide belt and nickel exploration of the Falcondo nickel belt, adjacent to Xstrata’s Falcondo nickel smelter.
Cerro [...]