Petaquilla Minerals Ltd. released news this morning providing details of the progress made at its 100% owned Molejon gold mine in central Panama. As mentioned, the Company is in the final stages of completing its Molejon gold production facility and has scheduled its first test production for the latter part of December 2008.
With respect [...]

Petaquilla Minerals Ltd. announces that it has closed a supplemental Senior Secured Notes financing , issuing a total of 20,000 Senior Secured Notes and raising gross proceeds of $20,000,000 USD.
Each Note represents a principal amount of $1,000 USD and matures on July 9, 2013, at 120% of the principal amount of such Note; provided however [...]

Hines Bending Inc., the leading original equipment manufacturer of mandrel bending equipment, announced today it had added a powerful interactive feature to its web site. “George W,” Hines’ new talking spokesperson, greets visitors and explains the many benefits buyers receive with a Hines Mandrel Bending Machine.
“The Prez is an advocate of small business,” said Jim [...]

Bellhaven Copper & Gold, Inc. announces that it has been granted three licenses (metallic exploration concessions) covering 6,440 hectares in the Department (Province) of Bolivar, Colombia approximately 275 kilometers from the Atlantic port city of Cartagena. The three licenses are located in the San Lucas Mountain Range in the Southern Bolivar Mineral Belt. The Southern [...]

Cabo Drilling Corp.’s U.S. subsidiary Advanced Drilling Inc. has been awarded a contract to drill a minimum of 35,000 feet of surface core drilling on Rio Grande Silver’s San Juan Silver Exploration Project, located north of Creede, Colorado.
The initial phase of drilling is designed to test the north extension of the Bulldog vein system which [...]

Cabo Drilling Corp. announces that New Millennium Capital Corp. of Calgary, Alberta, has awarded Cabo’s Ontario division a contract for up to 10,000 meters of reverse circulation drilling on New Millennium’s DSO (Direct Shipping Ore) projects near Schefferville, Quebec.
New Millennium’s 2008 summer drilling program, intended to upgrade New Millennium’s historical resources to NI 43-101 standards, [...]

Cabo Drilling Corp.’s Montreal division, Forage Cabo Inc., has been awarded a contract by Labrador Iron Mines Limited, of Toronto, Ontario, to complete 30,000 meters of reverse circulation drilling at Labrador Iron Mines’ Schefferville Project located near Schefferville, Quebec.
The purpose of Labrador Iron Mines’ reverse circulation drill program is to provide data for a NI [...]

Petaquilla Copper Ltd. announced its formal response to the unsolicited offer by 6910360 Canada Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Inmet Mining Corporation to acquire all of the outstanding common shares of PTC. The Company’s response and related materials will be mailed to PTC shareholders today and filed on SEDAR. The Directors’ Circular is also [...]

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 [...]

It’s taken almost four years and $3 billion, but Australia’s wealthiest individual Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest is about to turn his iron ore dream into reality.
The first commercial export shipment of his Fortescue Metals Group Ltd is due to commence loading on Thursday at Port Hedland in Western Australia’s remote Pilbara region.
The iron ore is from [...]