Denison Mines Corp. announced the discovery of three new zones of mineralization at its Mutanga uranium project in Zambia. The new zones were discovered during the drilling of the first three targets of Denison’s 2008 exploration program. The most significant hole (DMD77600-03) included 12.5 metres of 1,204 ppm eU3O8 at a depth of only 74 [...]

Geovic Mining Corp. announced the appointment of Conrad B. Houser to the position of Senior Vice President, as well as President of Geovic Energy Co., a wholly-owned subsidiary.
Mr. Houser has more than 25 years experience in international mining activities, including project management, strategic planning, finance, administration, mine design, environmental permitting, compliance, and marketing. Additionally, as [...]

Denison Mines Corp. announced that Denison Environmental Services (”DES”), a division of Denison Mines Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, has been awarded a contract for care and maintenance at the Faro Mine Complex in the Yukon.
The three year, $7.2 million per annum contract has been awarded following a six-month competitive public tender [...]

Denison has experienced delays in obtaining an Air Quality Permit, the only remaining permit required to mine Arizona 1, from the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (”ADEQ”). The application for the Air Quality Permit, which relates to surface air quality, was submitted to the ADEQ in January 2008 after three months of consultation. Concern was [...]

Mayfair Mining & Minerals, Inc. is pleased to announce that it is expanding its interests and activities within the Southern African Development Community by the formation of a joint venture mining company in the country of Malawi, for the purpose of pursuing additional gemstone and metal mining licences.
The Republic of Malawi is a landlocked country [...]

Albidon Ltd. said its first nickel-copper-cobalt-PGM concentrate has been produced at Munali Nickel Project located near south of Zambia’s capital city Lusaka.
The mining company said saleable nickel-copper-cobalt-PGM concentrate is currently being stockpiled ahead of collection for smelting by Jinchuan Group.
It also added its focus is now to complete commissioning of the concentrator and increase concentrate [...]

Zambia-focused miner Kiwara has negotiated an amendment to its joint-venture agreement with LM Engineering to include the mining of iron ore.
Kiwara is paying LM Engineering $100,000 to waive its rights to indepdently develop the iron ore prospects in the Licence 267 area in the Kabompo region of Zambia. The region is known to contain a [...]

India’s Era Engineering Innovations (EII) has committed an investment of US$5 million into coal-powered energy generation in Zambia following the just-ended Conclave on Indo-Africa Project Partnership in New Delhi.
Commerce, Trade and Industry Minister, Felix Mutati, who led the Zambian delegation to the meeting signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with EII director, Ajay Mishra over [...]

Albidon announced its JV partner African Energy has received final assay results from the initial phase of RC drill testing of the Chisebuka uranium anomaly in the Kariba Valley JV Project in Zambia. Significant intersections include: 7m @ 445 ppm U3O8 from 11m incl. 2m @ 762 ppm U3O8 from 11m and 2m @ 642 [...]

Caledonia Mining Corporation is pleased to announce it has accepted an offer for the purchase of the entire issued share capital of Eersteling Gold Mining Company Limited (”Eersteling”) in South Africa by a private Canadian company for C$3.81 million.
The offer is to be settled in cash on or before July 31, 2008 and a refundable [...]