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.
By Joel Scanlon
27 Feb 2012
Archean Star Resources has announced that the hole TB008 drilled at the Turnberry prospect was expanded to and blocked at a downhole of 374 m. The company planned to drill that hole to 350 m depth in order to examine the mineralized gold down dip from the hole GNRC008.
By Joel Scanlon
27 Feb 2012
Meadow Bay Gold has reported assay results of one core drill hole and five reverse circulations in the Atlanta Gold Mine Project at Lincoln County of Nevada.
By Joel Scanlon
24 Feb 2012
Standard Graphite has declared that it has started the exploration program at the Carheil, Sandy NE, Sandy Lake and River Graphite properties.
By Joel Scanlon
24 Feb 2012
Elgin Mining has reported the results from the initial nine holes that were drilled at the West Zone South of Shaft (WZSOS) zone’s shallow upper part located in the Lupin mine in Canada.
By Joel Scanlon
24 Feb 2012
Kivalliq Energy has declared the phase II exploration program at the Angilak property in Canada. The value of the exploration is $20 million. The company has planned for 2012 aggressive exploration to develop numerous uranium discoveries found during 2011.
By Joel Scanlon
24 Feb 2012
Colt Resources has reported the final analytical assays from the 11 holes drilled at the Tabuaço tungsten project, which is situated in the Armamar-Meda concession, North Portugal.
By Joel Scanlon
24 Feb 2012
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.
By Joel Scanlon
24 Feb 2012
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.
By Joel Scanlon
23 Feb 2012
Kingsgate Consolidated, an Australian gold mining company, has seen increased gold yields in Thailand this financial year. Record prices of gold have already helped the company practically triple its net profit to $33.9 million.
By Joel Scanlon
23 Feb 2012
Rio Tinto has discovered an unprecedented 12.76 carat pink diamond at its Kimberly mining operations. The huge rough stone has been named the "Argyle Pink Jubilee". It will take 10 days to cut and polish this rare and precious stone.
The Bullant gold mine in Western Australia has stopped mining operations as the Kalgoorie Mining Company announced that it had missed production targets and also had seen its processing costs rising.
Centurion Minerals, an Indonesian-based company, has declared that the newly identified vuggy massive silica outcrops in the Simpang Tiga and Zulham prospects revealed gold showings that have expanded the gold zone, located in the Banda Raya, Northern Sumatra property, to about 2.5 km.
Metals Creek Resources declared that it has started a diamond drilling program on the Ogden Property located in the Timmins Gold Camp, Ontario. The Ogden property encloses 8 km of strike length of the Porcupine-Destor Break between Lake Shore Gold's West Timmins development project and Goldcorp's Dome Mine.
By Joel Scanlon
23 Feb 2012
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.
By Joel Scanlon
23 Feb 2012