Hindustan Copper Ltd. , India’s third-largest copper producer, is planning to revive a closed copper ore mine with annual capacity of 450,000 tonnes before the end of 2007, a company official said on Friday.
Deals have also been signed with arms of four overseas firms for exploring other copper deposits in India.
“Maybe we will have a [...]

Alto Ventures Ltd. is pleased to announce the start of the 2007 winter diamond drilling program on its projects in the Beardmore Geraldton Gold Belt. In the past this prolific gold belt has produced over four million ounces of gold at grades that are comparable to the Red Lake gold mining camp in north western [...]

Copper gained for a second day in London on speculation that a labor dispute at a mine in Chile, the world’s largest producer of the metal, may disrupt supply.
A union at the Cerro Colorado copper mine voted yesterday to strike as part of wage negotiations with BHP Billiton Ltd., the world’s biggest mining company. Supply [...]

Hecla Mining Company is pleased to announce the opening of an additional corporate office in Vancouver, British Columbia, scheduled for February 5, 2007.
Hecla’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Phillips S. Baker, Jr., said, “Vancouver is widely recognized as a major mining center, and certainly a hub of exploration activity. Our strategy is to be a [...]

PRB Energy, Inc. announced the election by the Board of Directors of Paul L. Maddock, Jr. (Jay) and Sigmund J. Rosenfeld to its Board of Directors effective February 1, 2007.
Robert W. Wright, Chairman and CEO, stated, “We are exceptionally pleased that Mr. Maddock and Mr. Rosenfeld are joining our board. Both Jay and Sig bring [...]

Acergy S.A. announced that it had been awarded a contract by Statoil for survey services in the North Sea.
This frame contract, valued at $120 million, is for the provision of survey services for a period of five years from March 15, 2007 with two options, each of two years for the extension of this contract. [...]

The oil ministry on Monday offered oil companies a record 48 exploration licenses for 85 offshore blocks, most near existing fields that Norway hopes will stimulate future production.
Norway, the world’s third largest oil exporter after Saudi Arabia and Russia, began offering unexplored blocks near existing, or mature, finds in 2003 in what it calls Awards [...]

Glencairn Gold Corp. announced that it has initiated a CDN$2.5 million exploration program at its Nicaraguan gold properties. The program will focus on the Limon Mine and the Mestiza Project as well as the Libertad Mine, where there has been no exploration since 1998.
“We are pleased to be starting the exploration program for all three [...]

Nuinsco Resources Limited (”Nuinsco” or the “Company”)(TSX: NWI) (www.nuinsco.ca) today announced that the shareholders of Nuinsco overwhelmingly approved the previously announced plan of arrangement (the “Arrangement”) involving Nuinsco and a new company, Victory Nickel Inc. (”Victory Nickel”). Of the votes cast at Nuinsco’s Special Meeting of Shareholders on January 26, 2007, 99.77% were in favour [...]

The union representing Xstrata Plc nickel mine, mill and smelter workers in Canada said talks to avert a Feb. 1 strike will likely resume today for the first time since the union rejected a company offer Jan. 25.
Negotiations have been on hold as Xstrata reviewed the union’s counteroffer over the weekend and delayed the scheduled [...]