Cardero Resource Corp. (”Cardero” or the “Company”) (Toronto:CDU.TO)(AMEX:CDY)(Frankfurt:CR5.F) is pleased to announce that, as part of the Company’s strategy to focus on its pre-eminent Pampa De Pongo and Pampa el Toro Iron Ore deposits in the Marcona District of Peru, it has signed a letter of intent dated June 12, 2008 (”LOI”) with Ethos Capital [...]
US oil giant Chevron on Monday rejected a court report holding it liable for 16.5 billion dollars in alleged environmental damage in Ecuador between 1964-1990, saying it owes the Ecuadoran government exactly “nothing.”
“What we’ll do is challenge it point by point … and insist that the report is absurd and illegal,” Chevron’s Ecuador representative Rodrigo [...]
Toxic, radioactive dust released from armour-piercing depleted uranium shells lingers for decades in the environment and contaminates land far from where it is used, according to British scientists.
The finding raises fears that communities living in or returning to war zones may be forced to live on contaminated ground, in danger of inhaling the substance or [...]
Dumont Nickel Inc. is pleased to announce that drilling has commenced at its Rattler Project, Utah, to test the Carlin style disseminated sediment hosted gold target (see also press January 29, 2007).
This target comprises a series of surface gold anomalies in calcareous siltstone. The current drill program is the first such program to test [...]
More than two years ago, the Techsol chemical spill in Westmoreland drove five hundred people from their homes. Marathon Ashland has already settled with many of the neighbors in the affected area…but now, they’re worried about more drilling for soil samples near their neighborhood.
It all started in October 2004, when Techsol tried to transfer about [...]
Portal Resources Ltd. is pleased to announce that drilling has commenced on the Refugio porphyry molybdenum-copper zone at the Arroyo Verde project in Chubut province, Argentina.
The Company recently completed 15 kilometers of pole-dipole IP/Resistivity survey indicating the presence of two large, discrete IP chargeability anomalies coincident with anomalous molybdenum and copper geochemistry in surface rock [...]
Luiri Gold Limited announced that the 5,000m combined RC and Diamond core drilling programme at Dunrobin and Matala is now in progress with almost 1,000m having been completed. Drilling has been planned to expand the current resource estimates at both deposits, and to evaluate, over a distance of 4km, the New Matala Extension immediately west [...]
True North Gems is pleased to announce the completion of the 2006 airborne program for its wholly owned Bandito (formerly known as Corundum Dome) nickel property in the Watson Lake Mining District, Yukon Territory, Canada.
McPhar Geosurveys Ltd. has concluded its low altitude airborne, THEM time domain EM and magnetometer geophysical survey over the Bandito [...]
Augyva Mining Resources Inc is pleased to announce high grade grab sample results in copper and highly anomalous soil samples results in gold, nickel and copper on its Yasinski property in James Bay. All analyses were carried out by ALS Chemex in Val d’Or, Quebec, an internationally recognized essayer.
The Rock samples and soil samples [...]
Candente Resource Corp. and Orex Ventures Inc. are pleased to announce that drilling commenced on Thursday October 19th on the Pamel Property in Central Peru. Diamond drilling is being carried out by MDH S.A.C. of Lima, Peru. The drill being used is a Longyear 38 which is expected to be able to core to [...]
