High River Gold Mines Ltd. would like to comment on the large share transaction volume and consequent share price decline resulting from trading late on Friday September 19, 2008. The Company believes that the share price decline was related to High River’s deletion from several S&P/TSX indices, and the resulting selling by index funds.
On September [...]

Silvercorp Metals Inc. provided an update on power supply issues in China. Due to inadequate power coal supply nation wide, and due to measures to insure power supply to the Beijing Olympic Games and to residential consumers during the Olympic Games, governmental rationing has been imposed for industrial usage. As a result, Silvercorp’s mining operations [...]

It is reported that Shares of Eclipsys Corp. rose Friday after Standard & Poor’s said it will add the health care software maker’s stock to its S&P SmallCap 600 index. The Atlanta-based company will replace W-H Energy Services Inc. on the index as W-H Energy is being purchased by oilfield services provider Smith International Inc., [...]

Responding the Nabors’ offering worth $750M, Moody’s investors had it reviewed. It is also said that it placed its “A3″ senior unsecured rating for Nabors Industries Ltd. under review for a possible downgrade after the oil and gas driller announced a senior notes offering. The Bermuda-based company said Thursday one of its subsidiaries, Nabors Industries [...]

Worldwide industrial services company Harsco Corporation announced it has successfully completed a bond offering of 5.75%, 10-year senior notes totaling $450 million. The notes were rated A3 by Moody’s and A- by both Standard & Poor’s and Fitch. The managing underwriters of the offering were J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., and Greenwich [...]

HudBay Minerals Inc. announces that it has entered into an exclusive option agreement pursuant to which HudBay, in its sole discretion, may acquire 100% of the Jason lead/zinc mineral property (Jason Property) in the Yukon from MacPass Resources Limited (MacPass), for C$1.0 million.
The option agreement provides for an initial payment of C$100,000 to MacPass with [...]