Vena Resources Inc. is pleased to announce that the second drill program has commenced at Azulcocha West. An additional 27 drill holes have been designed for a total of 8,000 metres of drilling. Drilling includes targets on the Cantagallo, Recuperada and El Triunfo areas along the southern area of the Azulcocha West property including a [...]

Barrick Gold Corp., the Canadian mining company, has abandoned its plan to sponsor a seminar here on global warming in May that will have former Vice President Al Gore and Chilean President Michelle Bachelet as the main speakers.
It wasn’t clear how the decision was made.
A representative for Gore said his office requested that Barrick Gold [...]

RIDDLE - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today proposed adding an abandoned copper and zinc mine near the southwestern Oregon town of Riddle to the list of Superfund toxic waste cleanup sites.
After a 60-day public comment period, the agency will decide whether to add the Formosa Mine to the Superfund priority list, making it eligible [...]

Dynatec Corp., a Canadian mining company, said it sold stakes in a $2.5 billion Madagascar nickel project to Korea Resources Corp. and Sumitomo Corp. to raise $852 million in funding. The shares rose the most in 15 months.
Sumitomo and Korea Resources will each own 27.5 percent stakes in the Ambatovy venture, Richmond Hill, Ontario-based Dynatec [...]

Iamgold, a Canadian mining company, said that it would buy Cambior, a rival, for about 1.33 billion Canadian dollars ($1.2 billion) in stock, to create a gold mining operation with more than one million ounces of annual production. The deal will push Iamgold to the top of the midtier gold producers and comes six months [...]