Drilling results include 211.68 metres grading 2.41 g/t Au, 91.63 metres grading 2.16 g/t Au, 55.90 metres grading 5.99 g/t Au and 11.30 metres grading 5.05 g/t Au
Toronto, Canada – January 23, 2007 - Banro Corporation is pleased to announce further results from the Company’s core drilling program at its wholly-owned Twangiza project, located [...]

Bronco Energy Ltd. announces that it has completed the drilling, completion and equipping of six horizontal wells in the Wabiskaw formation on Indian Oil and Gas Canada (”IOGC”) Mineral Lease OL 6117, located at Wabasca, Alberta in the heart of the Athabasca Oil Sands Deposits, and has placed the wells on production to temporary [...]

Nickel prices surged to an all-time peak above 37,000 dollars in London trading owing to concerns over dwindling stockpiles of the metal.
Tin also reached an historic high Monday, close to 12,000 dollars, on supply concerns.
A tonne of nickel for delivery in three months climbed to 37,349 dollars on the London Metal Exchange (LME), which is [...]

Lexaria Corp. has begun drilling on its second phase program in Mississippi. Lexaria has an Area of Mutual Interest (”AMI”) of up to 50 additional wells and is the largest single participant in this Phase II AMI with a 40% interest.
The first well in Phase II, the CMR-USA-39-14, reached total depth of 3,200 feet [...]

Guinea’s general strike has halted all shipments of bauxite from the world’s biggest bauxite exporter, Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinee (CBG), its operator Alcoa Inc. said on Monday.
Company officials in the West African country, the top bauxite exporter, had previously said ship loading operations could continue for around a week using security stocks, but Alcoa [...]

Canadian Natural Resources Limited announced that Toronto Stock Exchange has accepted notice filed by Canadian Natural of its intention to make a Normal Course Issuer Bid through the facilities of Toronto Stock Exchange. Purchases may also be made through the facilities of the New York Stock Exchange.
The notice provides that Canadian Natural may, during the [...]

GOLDCORP INC. announced that it has received all permits required for full mine and mill construction and operation of its Penasquito project in Zacatecas, Mexico. Penasquito mine is projected to be the largest mine in Mexico when full production is achieved. Current reserves represent seventeen years of gold, silver and zinc production.
The approvals granted include [...]

Micron Enviro Systems, Inc. is extremely pleased to announce that it has been notified by the operator that the seismic operations are now complete and the data is being assessed. The seismic data, combined with the core sample, will be interpreted with the evaluation on this first test hole finished shortly. The operator stated, [...]

An ad campaign launched last month asks jewelers to boycott gold from a proposed open pit mine that many Alaska Natives fear will ruin their way of life.
The campaign in National Jeweler, an industry newspaper, is designed to educate jewelers about the Pebble Mine project in the Bristol Bay watershed, home to the largest sockeye [...]

A clean coal project that would be the first of its type in the world might be constructed on the north side of the 49th parallel.
Sask Power of Regina, Saskatchewan, is talking about a $1.5 billion plant north of Estevan in the same province.
“It would not even need a smoke stack,” said project spokesman Larry [...]