Argonaut Resources announced the highest nickel grade intercepts to date at the Company’s Century tenement in Laos. The latest results include trenching intercepts of up to 22m at 1.0% Nickel across disseminated nickel sulphide mineralisation at the Nam Hone East prospect on the Century tenement. The Company is planning a concentrated drilling program on the [...]

Norilsk Nickel expects its net profit under IFRS to slide to $5.3bn in 2007 from $5.96bn posted for the previous year, the Russian precious metals producer said in a memo prepared for the company’s annual general shareholders’ meeting scheduled for June 30. Meanwhile, the document states that, net of damage to business reputation, Norilsk Nickel’s [...]

Great Western Minerals Group Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has signed a non-binding Letter of Intent to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Less Common Metals Ltd. (”LCM”) of Birkenhead, United Kingdom, subject to the required regulatory approvals in the UK and Canada. The purchase price of this acquisition is [...]

Norilsk Nickel is targeting a supplementary listing on the London Stock Exchange for the beginning of July, said the Russian metals giant’s chief executive, Denis Morozov.
“The listing will broaden the base for investors, give us more liquidity and, in time, a higher capitalization,” Interfax quoted Morozov as saying.
Norilsk initially had intended to list in London [...]

A Makati Regional Trial Court (RTC) has issued a writ of preliminary injunction against foreign-owned mining firm BHP Billiton, barring the company from operating in the Pujada Nickel mining site in the City of Mati, Davao Oriental.
In an Omnibus Order dated May 20, 2008, Judge Winlove Dumayas of the Makati RTC Branch 59 ordered BHP [...]

Australian nickel mining company, Albidon has discovered exciting drill results at its Sunnyside project, the company has announced.
Believed to be the most substantial nickel sulphide intersections in Botswana outside the Selebi-Phikwe and Tati nickel mining districts, the intersections include 8.6m@1.21 percent nickel, 0.30 percent copper within an intersection of 18.6 metres with grades ranging [...]

Emerging nickel producer Nickelore Limited (ASX: NIO.AX) is pleased to announce completion of the Share Purchase Plan, which raised a total of $0.25 million via the issue of 3,621,467 fully paid ordinary shares. In addition, the Company has raised a further $0.27 million from the sale of listed investments at a profit.
The Company previously announced [...]

Cabo Drilling Corp., Ontario Division, has signed a drilling contract with International Millennium Mining Corp. (IMMC) for an initial 2,500 meters of diamond drilling near the Waldman mine on IMMC’s Cobalt Area Property in Ontario. The purpose of the program is to test several strong targets identified by a MMI (mobile metal ion) sampling program [...]

Golden Chalice Resources Inc. is pleased to announce that drilling has commenced on the Company’s Radio Hill Property, which is located approximately 76 kilometres southwest of Timmins, Ontario. The Radio Hill Property has potential to host gold, nickel, copper, zinc or iron ore deposits.
A historical non-compliant 43-101 resource was calculated for the iron mineralization on [...]