Golden Chalice Resources Inc. is pleased to announce that drilling has commenced on the Company’s Radio Hill Property, which is located approximately 76 kilometres southwest of Timmins, Ontario. The Radio Hill Property has potential to host gold, nickel, copper, zinc or iron ore deposits.
A historical non-compliant 43-101 resource was calculated for the iron mineralization on [...]

Research and Markets has announced the addition of “Hydrometallurgy: Principles and Applications” to their offering.
The book is concerned with the theoretical principles of hydrometallurgical processes and engineering aspects and also discusses the hydrometallurgical processes of production of copper on the example of leaching of chalcopyrite as the main sulphide mineral of copper processed in industry.
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Thundelarra has updated its financial model for the Copernicus Nickel Project incorporating the rates from recently awarded mining and construction contracts. Thundelarra’s share of cash flow from mining of the initial reserve, net of all establishment and operating costs, has been estimated at $28.1m over four years. THX’s 40% share of the new NPV is [...]

Norilsk Nickel made a net loss of $916.4 million calculated to Russian Accounting Standards (RAS) in the first quarter of 2008, the world’s largest nickel and palladium company has said in a statement.
Norilsk Nickel posted on Wednesday a preliminary output report saying its nickel production increased 22% to 74,572 metric tons in the first quarter [...]

Russian metals giant Norilsk Nickel said on Wednesday first-quarter 2008 nickel output rose to 74,572 tonnes from 60,913 tonnes in the same quarter of 2007.
Palladium output in the first quarter was 597,000 ounces, Norilsk said in a statement. First-quarter palladium output in 2007 was 716,000 ounces.
The palladium figures did not include output by Norilsk’s U.S. [...]

Fox Resources announced that RC drill hole 08BERC003 has intersected shallow, fresh massive nickel and copper sulphides at the Bertram Prospect, located 12km south of the Company’s Radio Hill nickel mine in WA. Preliminary analysis of the massive nickel sulphides by the Company’s Radio Hill laboratory has resulted in the best intersection of 2m @ [...]

Hawk Uranium Inc. is pleased to announce that Geotech Ltd., of Aurora, Ontario has commenced a 2,000 km helicopter-borne Time Domain Electromagnetic Geophysical Survey with a VTEM system over Hawk’s wholly owned Cluff Lake Uranium Project in Northern Saskatchewan. Geotech Ltd. has advised Hawk that it expects to complete this survey by the end of [...]

Indonesia plans to limit the area that metal and coal miners can explore to prevent domination by a few companies, a legislator said on Monday, a move analysts said could hurt already poor levels of investment.
Indonesia has some of the world’s largest deposits of coal, copper, tin, nickel and gold, and is keen to earn [...]

Canadian Arrow Mines, Ltd. is pleased to provide an update on the metallurgical test-work program underway on ores from the Kenbridge Nickel Project in Northwestern Ontario. Xstrata Process Support (XPS) of Sudbury, Ontario recently completed a series of variability tests as part of the Phase 1 program to verify and optimize the flotation circuit for [...]

East Delta Resources Corp. announced today that its majority owned subsidiary, Sino-Canadian Metals Inc. has completed construction of a metals processing plant that produces a nickel-copper aggregate from ore supplied by local mines.
The facility, owned by Sino-Canadian through its Joint Venture in China, is located in Qinghai Province and has been in development for over [...]