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WCB Resources Receives Drill Testing Results from Red Hill Project

WCB Resources (WCB) has announced that it has obtained the results from the drill testing program conducted at the Red Hill project.

28 Feb 2012

Orestone Mining Announces Diamond Drilling Results from Captain Porphyry Project

Orestone Mining has reported the results of the hole DDHC12-01diamond drilled at the Captain Porphyry project, containing gold and copper. This project lies 43 km towards the northern part of Fort St. James in BC and around 30 km towards the Mt. Milligan deposit’s southern part.

27 Feb 2012

VMS Ventures to Start Drilling at Cowan River Project

VMS Ventures has announced the beginning of the drill program at its projects located near Snow Lake. Cowan River, McClarty, Morton Lake and Puella Bay are the projects chosen for this year’s drilling program. The company has awarded the drill contract to Westcore Drilling of British Columbia.

24 Feb 2012

Mining Resumes at Collahuasi Copper Mine

Mining operations have resumed at the Collahuasi copper mine in Chile. The world’s third largest copper mine had seen a production halt following the death of a worker. The mine had an output of 453,000 tonnes of copper last year. This was down by 10% compared to the previous year.

23 Feb 2012

Messina Minerals Reports Final Copper Assays from Brook Prospect

Messina Minerals has announced the final assays from a nine hole diamond drilling conduced at the Brook prospect, located in the Victoria property, Canada. The company intersected 5.5% copper over 4.0 m in the hole VIC11-02.

23 Feb 2012

Trouble Brewing for Freeport-McMoRan in Indonesia

As the government of Indonesia renegotiates contracts for mining with multi-national miner Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, there are demands to up the royalties that are earned from the mining company.

22 Feb 2012

Orvana Receives Draft Mining Permit for Michigan-based Copperwood Project

Orvana Minerals, a multi-mine copper and gold producer with assets in Michigan, Eastern Bolivia and Northern Spain has announced that the company has received the draft mining permit from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality for the Michigan-based Copperwood copper project.

From Orvana Minerals Corp. 21 Feb 2012