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Debut Diamonds Announces Fall Work Program Update from Timmins South Project

Debut Diamonds Inc. (the "Company" or "Debut") is pleased to announce that its fall work program at Timmins South is well underway as per Debut's Letter Of Intent ("LOI") with Fletcher Nickel Inc. ("Fletcher") (Canadian Unlisted Board: FL) to enter into an Option Agreement (the "Option") where Debut would be entitled to earn up to a 65% joint venture interest in 65 contiguous unpatented mining claims (totalling 730 claim units) covering an area of 116.5 square kilometers; collectively referred to as the Muskrat, Beaver Tail and Otter claim groups.

7 Dec 2012

Homestake Reports Surface Soil and Rock Sampling Results from Kinskuch Project

Homestake Resource Corporation ("Homestake") reported today that surface soil and rock sampling on the Kinskuch project has extended Ag-Pb-Zn mineralization south of Homestake's 2011 drilling by an additional 750 metres and expanding the overall Illiance River trend to more than 4.5 kilometres of strike length. In addition, a second sub-parallel trend of elevated Cu and Au anomalies has been identified to the west of the main trend, along a prominent geophysical conductivity anomaly.

7 Dec 2012

Confederation Minerals Reports Newman Todd Gold Project Update

Confederation Minerals Ltd. ("Confederation" or the "Company") announces that, as part of its ongoing drilling program at the Newman Todd gold project, it has completed a 1024 meter-long drill hole (NT-129) to test the gold-bearing Newman Todd structure at depth. The hole was drilled at an angle of 80 degrees from the horizontal, and was oriented at azimuth 300 degrees.

7 Dec 2012

International Lithium Begins Drilling and Bulk Sampling Preparation for Mariana Project

International Lithium Corp. ("ILC" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the Company has initiated permitting and preparations for drilling and bulk sampling brine for metallurgical testing on their wholly owned Mariana Potash-Lithium project in Argentina.

7 Dec 2012

WMC Delivers Multiflo Mega-Barges for Suncor’s TRO Project

Weir Minerals Canada’s (WMC) reputation as a premier mining equipment solutions provider netted the company its largest single order in its history.

From The Weir Group PLC 6 Dec 2012

Thomson Reuters Honors Sandvik on 2012 Top 100 Global Innovators List

Sandvik earned a position on the prestigeous Thomson Reuters 2012 Top 100 Global Innovators list. The list honors 100 corporations and institutions around the world that are at the heart of innovation as measured by a series of proprietary patent-related metrics.

From Sandvik AB 6 Dec 2012

Beaufield Commences Helicopter Magnetometer Survey over Opinaca Gold Property

Beaufield Resources Inc. ("Beaufield" or the "Company") is pleased to announces that it has commenced a high-resolution, helicopter-borne, magnetometer survey over its 100% owned Opinaca property, located 320 km north of Matagami, James Bay, Québec.

6 Dec 2012

Nevada Copper Signs New Drill Contracts for Pumpkin Hollow Property

Nevada Copper Corp. ("Nevada Copper") is pleased to announce that drill contracts have been signed for follow-up drilling of the NC12-34 area from its 100% owned Pumpkin Hollow Property located near Yerington, Nevada. It is expected that drill mobilization will commence later this month. The initial phase of the drill program will total 5,000 meters.

From Nevada Copper Corp. 6 Dec 2012

Gold and GemStone Mining Plans Full Scale Alluvial Mining Operations in Sierra Leone

Gold and GemStone Mining Inc., a gold and diamond exploration and development stage mining company focused on Sierra Leone, West Africa, has commented today on the growing economic opportunity within the mining industry of the Country in which it plans for full scale alluvial mining operations to begin in Q2 2013.

6 Dec 2012

Starcore Reports Gold and Silver Reserve Estimates for San Martin Mine

Starcore International Mines Ltd. (the "Company") is pleased to announce results for a recently completed Reserve estimate for its San Martin Mine in Queretaro, Mexico.

From Starcore International Mines Ltd. 6 Dec 2012

USA Graphite to Acquire Gordon Creek Graphite Property

USA GRAPHITE INC. or ("the Company") is pleased to announce it has signed a letter of intent to acquire the Gordon Creek Graphite Property.

6 Dec 2012

Sandvik Expands Product Line to Include a Certified Rig for High Risk Environments

Sandvik expands an already successful product line to include a certified rig for high risk environments.

From Sandvik AB 5 Dec 2012

Metso Signs Major Agreement with Russian Copper Company ZAO

Metso and ZAO Russian Copper Company (RMK) have signed a contract to supply crushing, screening and grinding equipment - as well as on-site services for six years -to the first plant of the new Tominsky GOK copper concentrator in the Chelyabinskya region in southwestern Russia.

From Metso Corporation 5 Dec 2012

Leica Geosystems Mining Commences Shipping of Locata-Powered Positioning Systems

Locata Corporation announced today that their integration partner, Leica Geosystems Mining, has begun to sell -- and ship to their global mining customers -- the world's first Locata-powered positioning systems. The Leica Jps (the Jigsaw Positioning System -- Powered by Locata) is the first positioning system to integrate global satellite navigation signals like GPS, and Locata's ground-based GPS-like networks.

5 Dec 2012

Glass Earth Gold’s WKP Project Demonstrates Large Permissive Gold System

Glass Earth Gold Limited ("Glass Earth Gold" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that its 5,500 metre diamond drill program at the WKP gold-silver prospect, Hauraki, New Zealand (Glass Earth Gold 35%; Newmont Mining 65%) continues to demonstrate that it is a large permissive gold system with potential to host significant epithermal gold deposit(s).

5 Dec 2012