VIPR Industries Inc. announces that it has executed a term-sheet for the acquisition of revenue producing Vancouver B.C. based Zereko Inc. and its highly touted proprietary IVAC Industrial unit. Some of Zereko’s current clients include notable companies such as General Motors, Inco, and Falconbridge among several others.
VIPR Industries has been in the process of reviewing [...]

Newmont Mining Corporation announced the selection of Brian Hill as Executive Vice President, Operations and other executive management appointments, effective October 1, 2008.
Richard O’Brien, Newmont’s President and CEO, said, “Our Executive Leadership Team is now established and well positioned to drive further improvement in our operational and project execution. As we continue to develop our [...]

Vangold Resources Ltd. (CDNX:VAN.V) (Other OTC:VNGRF.PK) (”Vangold”), further to a news release of May 21, 2008 announcing the drill program, drilling commenced at the Kafunjo concession on May 25th. Mr. Locke Goldsmith, P.Eng., P.Geo., reports that as of June 1, the drilling was going well and that the first hole, logged to 288 meters, showed [...]

PAN AFRICAN MINING CORP. is pleased to announce that it has identified seven new nickel laterite targets within its license area in Madagascar. These targets were identified by the detailed analysis of recently flown airborne magnetic and radiometric surveys in conjunction with the processing of Landsat remote sensing data. Detailed analysis was performed by consulting [...]

CROWFLIGHT MINERALS INC. is pleased to announce that it has acquired additional property adjacent to the former producing Manibridge Nickel Mine in the central portion of the Thompson Nickel Belt, approximately 15 kilometres south of its Bucko Lake Nickel project, currently under development.
Crowflight has added approximately 83 square kilometres (32 square miles) to its [...]

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 [...]

BRAZIL’S Companhia Vale do Rio Doce has signalled its confidence in the nickel market by granting final board approval for the $US3.2 billion Goro laterite project in New Caledonia, despite years of delays, cost blowouts and disputes with locals.
Goro has been one of the most-watched nickel developments in the world amid speculation CVRD could cancel [...]

The owners of a large Dominican Republic nickel mine will consider refining oil to sell in this energy-starved Caribbean country, an Xstrata Nickel company spokesman said Wednesday.
The company will hire a consultant to look into expanding an in-house oil refinery that services the former Falconbridge mine, some 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Santo Domingo, [...]

Xstrata plc, the fourth-largest copper and nickel producer in the world, has agreed to sell aluminium plants and a bauxite mine to New York-based Apollo Management LP for US$1.15 billion as it focuses on more profitable commodities.
The operations in the US and Jamaica were acquired by Switzerland-based Xstrata in 2006 when it bought Canada`s Falconbridge [...]

First Nickel Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Gerry Bilodeau as General Manager - Sudbury Operations. Mr. Bilodeau has many years of senior operations management experience with Falconbridge/Noranda, most notably as Manager Mining at the Kidd Mine D Project in Timmins and as Project Superintendent during development and construction at Falconbridge’s [...]