Pacific North West Capital Corp. and SOQUEM INC. are pleased to announce the completion of drilling at the Cheneville property, located approximately 120 kilometers northwest of Montreal, QC. The property was staked as part of the Taureau reconnaissance program, which is a 50:50 joint venture between PFN and SOQUEM designed to evaluate the Nickel-Copper-Platinum Group [...]

Gastem announced that following the summer 2008 program, including the drilling of two horizontal wells at St-Francois and St-Louis, Canadian Forest Oil (Forest) has fulfilled its spending requirement and earned a 60% interest in the Yamaska Property. As per the agreement, Forest is now the operator of the Utica Shale Program on Yamaska, covering some [...]

Rio Tinto Alcan will be the title sponsor of Montreal’s new BIXI self-service bicycle rental system, supplying funding for the project as well as aluminium for the construction of the bicycles. BIXI will be offered to the public as of April 2009, with 2,400 bikes available at a network of 300 stations covering central Montreal.
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Global Alumina Corporation, a corporation participating in a joint venture to develop an alumina refinery, mine and associated infrastructure in the bauxite-rich region of the Republic of Guinea (the “Project”), announced that it has received the aggregate first deferred subscription payment from its joint venture partners of approximately $42.2 million. The payment has been placed [...]

Blue Note Mining Inc. announced that it will be initiating a temporary care and maintenance program at its Caribou and Restigouche zinc and lead mines, owned through its wholly-owned subsidiary Blue Note Caribou Mines Inc.
Since commercial production was achieved in January 2008, operating performance has continuously improved with all of the original planned production targets [...]

Gossan Resources Limited has retained Hatch of Montreal, Canada, to provide engineering process support for the Inwood Magnesium Project The agreement covers a 5-phase work program culminating with the opening of a Certificate of Authorization file with the Manitoba government for construction and environmental approvals for a production facility at Inwood, located in south-central Manitoba.
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MDN Inc. announce the results of the first phase of the 2008 drilling program on the Viyonza project, located 15 km north of the Tulawaka Gold Mine in Tanzania. The drill program consisted in 708 metres diamond drilling (DD) in the main mineralized zone in Block A, 5,797 metres of reverse circulation (RC) drilling and [...]

Western Troy Capital Resources Inc. announced that its VP of Exploration, Wayne Holmstead, visited the Galloway Molybdenum Prospect located approximately 200 kilometers east of Montreal in Southeastern Quebec. The visit confirmed Western Troy’s earlier assessment that the prospect has the potential to host significant molybdenum mineralization as indicated by historic stream and soil sampling. Western [...]

Cadiscor Resources Inc. announce the results of an NI 43-101 Report from Genivar LP, based on analysis of existing data and new underground exploration drilling at IAMGOLD Corporation’s Sleeping Giant Mine. In December 2007, Cadiscor started a 19,000-meter underground exploration program to test the continuity of the gold zones in the Mine and at depth, [...]

Blue Note Mining Inc. reports its recent underground exploration drilling at its Caribou mine near Bathurst, New Brunswick has confirmed continuity of mineralization to a depth of 600 meters.
Eight holes drilled into Lens 3 on Levels 5 (480m) and 6 (560m) and Lens 2 on Level 5 have successfully delineated additional resources. The best hole [...]