Buffalo Gold Ltd. is pleased to announce additional assay results from the diamond drilling program at the Mt. Kare Gold Project in Papua New Guinea. Specific highlights of the drill results include:
North-Western Roscoelite Zone
- 30.0 metres of 19.2 g/t gold in hole MK06-58
- Including 6.5 meters of 41.8 g/t gold
- 25.0 metres of 22.6 g/t [...]

Precision Drilling Trust (”Precision”) confirms today that the cash distribution for the month of September 2006 will be Cdn$0.31 per trust unit of Precision. The distribution will be payable on October 17, 2006 to unitholders of record on September 29, 2006. The ex-distribution date is September 27, 2006. A payment of Cdn$0.31 per unit will [...]

The huge tires that keep the global mining industry rolling are in short supply, causing operators of the Centralia coal mine to rethink the way they do business at the sprawling, 10,000-acre mine that hugs the Thurston-Lewis county line.
As the demand for raw materials such as coal and metals grows to feed the thirsty, growing [...]

sxr Uranium One (sxr), which owns the South Africa’s largest undeveloped uranium mine, is tight-lipped about a report that it held talks to acquire Canada’s Denison Mines.
Sxr’s chief executive Neil Froneman would not comment on questions regarding the talks, but he did state that Uranium One would consider acquiring assets as long as they were [...]

Alberta Clipper Energy Inc. (”Alberta Clipper” or the “Company”) advises that it has recently tested 2 new significant light oil discoveries in the Sylvan Lake area of Alberta. These latest discoveries bring the total number of new Leduc pools found by the Company this year to 4. In addition, an aggressive exploration expansion effort in [...]

Arian Silver Corporation announces that it has completed the initial phase of underground sampling, surveying and geological mapping at its San Celso mine workings located in Zacatecas State, Central Mexico.
The San Celso project area covers a number of colonial-era silver mines and prospects, including the San Celso and Las Cristinitas mines. Past production focused on [...]

Although one of the most publicized issues within the mining industry is “blood” or “conflict” diamonds, a recent survey found consumers aren’t concerned about where a diamond is mined, and will not pay more to ensure they don’t buy a blood diamond.
In their survey of 7,223 consumers in the U.S. and Canada, the Jewelry Consumer [...]

Kaminak Gold Corporation and project partner BC Gold Corp. today announced the assay results from grab samples taken from a new surface molybdenum discovery on Kaminak’s 100% owned Voigtberg Au-Cu-Mo Property. Kaminak has also completed the previously announced (see Kaminak News Release dated August 22, 2006) drill program at the Voigtberg Property.
The 2060 hectare Voigtberg [...]

Lumina Resources Corp. announces that it has signed an agreement with Western Copper Corp. , a Vancouver based copper development company, whereby Western Copper, through a plan of arrangement, will acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Lumina for a total consideration of approximately C$26 million. Under the plan of arrangement, Lumina shareholders [...]

A massive Beaufort County strip-mining operation wants to expand its extraction of phosphate ore in one of the state’s most environmentally fragile areas.
The proposal by PCS Phosphate, if approved, would represent the single largest destruction of wetlands permitted in the state — 2,500 acres including the headwaters of seven creeks near the Pamlico River.
The rich [...]