Intermap Technologies, a leading worldwide 3D digital mapping company, announced that highly accurate elevation models, derived from their fully collected NEXTMap® Europe program, were licensed by the survey section of GEOinfo, the organization responsible for the acquisition, generation, and dissemination of geodata in Lower Austria. Intermap’s uniformly accurate elevation datasets were acquired through GeoVille Group, [...]

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.
The [...]

Northern Shield Resources Inc. announce an encouraging update regarding its 100% owned Eastbank Property in the James Bay Lowlands of northwestern Ontario. Microprobe analysis of 15 chromite grains recovered from a previously completed till sampling program at Eastbank (see press release dated April 29, 2008) show four of these grains to have high chrome content [...]

Intermap Technologies today announced that the Company has entered into a new distribution program with the Sabah Lands and Surveys Department in East Malaysia. The program, called Digital Sabah, will make available high-resolution 3D digital elevation data and imagery covering the entire State of Sabah.
Sabah, located on the Island of Borneo and the Malaysia Borneon [...]

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 [...]

ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest and most global steel company, today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Bakermet, a market leader in the scrap metal recycling industry in Eastern Ontario, Canada.
Bakermet, which specializes in all types of ferrous and non-ferrous metal, processed approximately 130,000 short tons of ferrous and 40 million pounds of [...]

Ur-Energy Inc. is pleased to announce the signing of a letter of intent with Titan Uranium Incorporated whereby Ur-Energy can earn up to an undivided 51% working interest in Titan’s R-Seven and Rook I properties by funding Cdn $9 million in exploration programs managed by Titan over a 4-year earn in period. Diamond drilling of [...]

While many local business organizations have voted to support a $1.3 billion coal-fired power plant in northeast Waterloo, one local businessman says he’s withholding his support for the project until traffic and environmental questions are addressed to his satisfaction.
Bob Molinaro, president of Warren Transport Inc. and a member of the Waterloo Industrial Development Association board [...]

Pakistan will reconsider a plan to mine areas of its border with Afghanistan to stop terrorists crossing the frontier, after Canada offered to help find alternative controls, Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri said.
Pakistan is “happy to receive suggestions,” Kasuri said after meeting Canadian Foreign Minister Peter MacKay yesterday in Islamabad, according to the official Associated Press [...]

Phoenix Matachewan Mines Inc. announces that a diamond drilling program will commence immediately at its Steel River base metal project, on the north shore of Lake Superior, in Ontario. The drilling will target high priority airborne electromagnetic responses, obtained from an 1100km property wide geophysical survey, that are coincident with prospective zinc-copper-gold geochemistry and geology [...]