The 2012 Balex Delta oil spill response exercise was conducted in the sea region outside Helsinki, Finland, which included dozens of Finnish organizations, over 20 oil pollution response vessels, over 50 other vessels, and over 500 people from European Union Member States and Baltic Sea states, including Finland.
By G.P. Thomas
31 Aug 2012
Consolidated Goldfields has reported assay results from the drilling campaign carried out at the Cahuilla gold-silver project located in California.
By Joel Scanlon
31 Aug 2012
Geologix Explorations, a mineral exploration firm, has reported that it has begun an exploration drilling program at the Tepal project located in Mexico.
By Kalwinder Kaur
31 Aug 2012
Serengeti Resources, a mineral exploration firm, has reported that drilling campaign results have been obtained from Choo and Tchentlo properties. These properties are situated towards the western part of the Mount Milligan mine development project in British Columbia. Freeport-McMoRan of Canada (FMCC) funded this drilling program.
By G.P. Thomas
31 Aug 2012
Vista Gold, a gold producer, announced that additional results have been received from the current resource conversion drill campaign conducted at the Mt. Todd gold project, located in Australia.
Galaxy Graphite declared that a Phase 1 exploration campaign has been successfully completed on the Laurier Graphite Project located in Ontario, Canada. The program has confirmed the reports obtained from the prior work on the property, which shows the existence of a high-grade graphite zone, grading up to 22% graphite.
By G.P. Thomas
30 Aug 2012
Nautilus Minerals has cleared certain statements and press coverage related to its Solwara 1 Project. The firm stated once again that the State of Papua New Guinea had granted the Mining Lease back in January 2011. Contrary to the information which was reported in several news articles, this grant is not the latest development.
By Joel Scanlon
30 Aug 2012
A new report titled Ernst & Young Dynamic Dealmaking in Oilfield Servicesreleased by mergermarket and Ernst & Young, has revealed that 84% of the survey respondents anticipate an increase in mergers and acquisitions (M&A).
By Kalwinder Kaur
30 Aug 2012
Energizer Resources has obtained further assay results from the National Instrument (NI) 43-101 graphite resource drilling campaign carried out recently at the Molo deposit. Currently, the company is strategically placed to define the potential size and borders of the deposit, including its tonnage and grade.
Metallum Resources has declared that it will be postponing exploration works on its Chubut Province, Argentina-based M-18 gold property, till the final conditions of the new mining legislation, which is at present being reviewed by Chubut’s provincial legislature, is decided.
Laramide Resources has reported that a diamond core drill campaign has been started at the Westmoreland Uranium project, located in Queensland, Australia.
Pelangio Exploration has discovered new gold from nine diamond holes, totaling 1,891 m, drilled in an area located at the Manfo Property, Ghana. The company intersected 1.00 g/t gold over 12 m and 0.57 g/t gold over 70 m in hole SGDD-201; and 1.06 g/t gold over 12 m and 0.77 g/t gold over 23 m in hole SGDD-203.
Kivalliq Energy has reported the preliminary assay results of this year from J4 Zone drill program conducted at the Angilak property, and the expansion of this zone to a strike length of 600 m.
By Kalwinder Kaur
29 Aug 2012
International Enexco has reported the results of the surface sampling campaign conducted at the Contact copper project, which is located in Northeast Nevada.
By G.P. Thomas
29 Aug 2012
Continental Nickel (CNI) has announced that a 2,409 km aerial magnetic and electromagnetic (EM) survey has discovered 25 new high-priority VTEM anomalies at the Nachingwea project in Southeast Tanzania. IMX Resources and CNI have 25:75 joint venture in this project.
By G.P. Thomas
29 Aug 2012