Pacific Coast Nickel Corp. (formerly Fargo Capital Corp.) (FGO.P) announces that it has granted options to purchase 1,925,000 common shares to directors, officers, and consultants of the Company at a price of $0.60 per share for a period of five years, subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange.
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Castillian Resources Corporation announces that the Board of Directors has approved a Cdn$9.0 million exploration budget to aggressively explore the Company’s three key nickel sulphide projects. The company has set an objective of completing the delineation drilling of the Mangabal South Deposit in Brazil and the Las Aguilas Deposit in Argentina, in order to commence [...]
Vulcan Minerals Inc. announces that it has been advised by Nortec Ventures Corp (Nortec) that Nortec is planning both an airborne geophysical survey and a drilling program on the TL Nickel property this late summer-fall subject to equipment availability. Nortec optioned the TL Nickel property from Vulcan and has the right to earn a [...]
Japan is feeling the heat over sharply rising prices for non-ferrous metals, especially rare metals, which are used in a wide range of high-technology products.
Global competition is intensifying for non-ferrous metals, including copper and lead, as well as for such energy resources as oil, natural gas and uranium. Prices have risen sharply in recent years [...]
Niger’s government is planning its first ever audit of mining and energy firms as foreign explorers flock to its expanses of mineral-rich desert, the West African country’s government said.
The world’s third largest uranium producer last year changed its mining law to allow the government to audit foreign firms, in line with the Extractive Industries Transparency [...]
OJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel announced that Norilsk Nickel’s proposed acquisition of control of LionOre Mining International Ltd. (Nachrichten) (”LionOre”) (Toronto Stock Exchange symbol: “LIM”; London Stock Exchange symbol: “LOR”; Botswana Stock Exchange symbol: “LIONORE”), which was notified in Norway on May 21, 2007, has been approved under the Norwegian Competition Act of 5 March 2004 [...]
The Democratic Republic of the Congo aims to not only revive its traditional copper sector, but diversify by exploiting potentially huge iron ore and bauxite deposits, Mining Minister Martin Kabwelulu said on Monday.
“Diversification of production is a key strategy,” he told a base-metals conference in Namibia.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo was once one of [...]
Rio de Janeiro-based CVRD (NYSE: RIO) is in talks with international steelmakers to bring new steel projects to Brazil, CFO Fábio Barbosa told analysts and investors in a presentation Thursday.
Barbosa was speaking in São Paulo during an event promoted by finance industry trade group Apimec.
CVRD has a 10% minority stake in the under-construction CSA steel [...]
Dumont Nickel Inc. is pleased to announce that drilling has commenced at its Rattler Project, Utah, to test the Carlin style disseminated sediment hosted gold target (see also press January 29, 2007).
This target comprises a series of surface gold anomalies in calcareous siltstone. The current drill program is the first such program to test [...]
