Strathmore Minerals Corp. is pleased to update progress on its uranium mill and tailings design and studies being carried out by the Company for its uranium projects in northwestern New Mexico. The Company and its Joint Venture partner, Sumitomo Corporation of Japan, have made considerable progress in the evaluation of designing and identifying the optimal [...]

Almaden Minerals Ltd. has received results from a 2008 winter exploration program on its 57.7% owned ATW diamond property located at Mackay Lake, NWT. The project is located proximal to a number of active diamond projects: The Diavik Mine lies about 18 miles north, the Snap Lake Project is about 42 miles southwest, and Mountain [...]

SunOpta Inc. (NasdaqGS:STKL - News) (Toronto:SOY.TO - News) today announced Opta Minerals Inc. has acquired 67% of the outstanding common shares of MCP Mg-Serbien SAS (“MCP”) of France. The transaction includes an option to acquire the remaining 33% minority interest on similar terms. For fiscal 2007 MCP recorded revenues of approximately US$6.3 million selling ground [...]

United Uranium Corp. were advised today by the Registrar of the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal that the appeal taken by Shore Gold Inc. (SGF.T) (”Shore”) from the decision of the Saskatchewan Court of Queen’s Bench granting the Companies the right to record Mineral Dispositions in the Fort a la Corne area was dismissed.
In the March [...]

Oriental Minerals Inc. is pleased to announce the grant of three uranium exploration and mining licenses known as Daejeon 80 (Reg. No. 77073), Geumsan 81 (Reg. No. 77072) and Goisan 116 (Reg. No. 77074) in the Ogcheon region of South Korea.
These are the second set of uranium licenses granted to a foreign company in South [...]

Golden Share Mining Corporation is pleased to provide an update on its on-going exploration programs.
The Company is advancing four projects and intends to execute three drill programs before the end of the year. Golden Share is sufficiently funded to achieve this objective and adequate field personnel are available. A diamond drilling contract has been awarded [...]

The Board of Directors of Uranium International Corp. has appointed Marek J. Kreczmer as the President/Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Uranium International effective as of July 9, 2008.
Mr. Kreczmer, M.Sc., P.Eng., has been a geologist and mining executive for more than 30 years. He has worked for major [...]

State-owned Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Maaden) yesterday launched an initial public offering to raise 9.25 billion riyals ($2.47bn) in the Middle East’s biggest mining IPO, valuing the firm at $4.9bn.
Maaden plans to sell 462.5 million of stock - equivalent to 50 per cent of its share capital - at 20 riyals each with subscriptions closing [...]

Quest Minerals & Mining Corp., announced today that its Pond Creek Location is ready to commence coal production operations pending the issuance of final directional engineering reports “spats” by its internal engineering firm, Alchemy Engineering. Management expects said reports to be issued by July 9, 2008 and plans to update the public with production numbers [...]

AmMex Gold Mining Corp. announced that it has decided not to proceed with the acquisition of 100% of the mining rights to the Cold Creek Gold Project, located in Cassia County, Idaho, near the Utah-Nevada border.
Management and the Board of Directors concluded that the Cold Creek property, while being a property of merit, does not [...]