Freegold Ventures Limited announce that it has now vested with a 100% interest in the underlying long term lease at its Rob property. The Company is also pleased to announce that its initial mapping and geophysics have identified new prospective targets on the property, and that the initial step-out drill holes at Grey Lead are [...]

Zijin Mining Group Co. Ltd. has completed its initial feasibility study on a gold-copper mine in Benguet province owned by Far Southeast Gold Resources Inc. (FSGRI).
China’s second largest gold miner is in the process of negotiating a final agreement, it said in a disclosure filed with the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
Listed local miner Lepanto Consolidated Mining [...]

World Gold Council (WGC), the organisation formed and funded by the world’s leading gold producers, has today announced that it has partnered with a leading Russian jewellery manufacturer, Choron, to bring the Gold Expressions jewellery collection to Russia for the very first time. Choron will present Gold Expressions at the New Russian Style Fair 2008 [...]

GOLDCORP INC. is pleased to declare its fourth monthly dividend payment for 2008 of $0.015 per share. Shareholders of record at the close of business on Thursday, April 17, 2008 will be entitled to receive payment of this dividend on Friday, April 25, 2008. Goldcorp has paid a monthly dividend to its shareholders since 2003.
Canadian [...]

Newmont Mining Corp., one of the world’s leading gold producers, on Thursday said sharply higher gold prices powered a more than threefold increase in fourth-quarter profit, even as sales volumes dipped.
The Denver-based miner said net income swelled to $223 million, or 49 cents per share, in the last three months of 2006 from $62 million, [...]

Valencia Ventures Inc. is pleased to advise shareholders and prospective investors that diamond drilling has been completed at its Cachinal Silver Project in Chile. The program was designed to confirm twin high grade silver intersections previously indicated by reverse circulation drilling. This additional data will assist with completion of the resource estimation and NI43-101 report [...]

GOLDCORP INC. announced that it has received all permits required for full mine and mill construction and operation of its Penasquito project in Zacatecas, Mexico. Penasquito mine is projected to be the largest mine in Mexico when full production is achieved. Current reserves represent seventeen years of gold, silver and zinc production.
The approvals granted include [...]

Shares of gold producers ended mixed Tuesday after gold prices stumbled before regaining their footing to finish higher.
The March gold contract rose after a volatile trading day to settle up $5.60 to $618 an ounce on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
A report by Barclays Capital said speculators have increased their long positions in the gold [...]

Polyus Gold OJSC has acquired an exploration and mining license in the Apsakanskaya prospect in the Amur Region, the Company says.
The license was bought by Polyus CJSC, a subsidiary of Polyus Gold, upon the auction held on November 17, 2006. The once-only payment for the subsoil use totaled RUB 6.3 mln following the results of [...]

Canadian gold miner Goldcorp Inc. has agreed to buy Reno, Nevada-based rival Glamis Gold Ltd. for about $8.6 billion in stock in a deal that will create one of the world’s largest gold producers.
The new company will have proven and probable reserves of about 41.1 million ounces of gold with focused operations in the Americas [...]