Paget Minerals has reported the drilling results from the Ball Creek project. The drilling program was conducted on the Rainbow gold porphyry target, which is situated in the Golden Triangle - Iskut Mineral District in Northwest BC.
By Joel Scanlon
17 Jan 2012
Uranium North Resource has declared that the 2011 exploration program on the Nunavut-based Nowyak property has enabled the company to discover high grade silver and gold mineralization with grab samples of assays up to 1040 g/t Ag, 72.1 g/t Au, and 5.8% copper.
By Joel Scanlon
17 Jan 2012
Granite Creek Gold declared that it had drilled 1,280 m in six holes in the fall of 2011 from three regions in the Buzzer West and Buzzer zones. The hole GC 11-74 returned excellent results with 0.008% Mo, 57.6 m of 0.237% Cu, 0.174 g/t Au and 1.5 g/t Ag.
By Joel Scanlon
17 Jan 2012
International Montoro Resources (IMT) has finished an AeroMAG radiometric and magnetic aerial geophysical survey on the Tacheeda Lake rare earth elements prospect.
Blue River Resources has obtained the mineral assay results from the Castle Copper project. The location of this project is 25 km towards the northern part of the Copper Mountain mine and 12 km towards the northern part of Princeton BC.
By Joel Scanlon
17 Jan 2012
The Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) announced that they had resumed mining operations at two of its mines in the Pilbara region after flooding due to Tropical Cyclone Heidi had forced operations to be suspended. The company is the third largest producer of iron ore in Australia.
Dart Mining is hoping to carry out a drilling program to upgrade its resources at the Unicorn Deposit located in north east Victoria. The Australian Securities Exchange listed company has hired drilling contractor Techdrill Services to help with the drilling program.
Australian mining company Blackham Resources announced that its recently acquired Matilda Gold Project has an existing Inferred Resource of 10.2 million tonnes at 1.8 grams per tonne for 601,000 ounces of gold.
The state of Indiana is soon to be the host to the biggest coal mine in all of eastern USA. However the Bear Run Mine in southwestern Indiana is worrying environmental groups as it steps up to become the largest coal mine in the region.
The largest deposit of diamonds in Asia has been discovered in the Liaoning province in China. The mine in the Wafandgdian district near the city of Dalian is expected to hold one million carats of diamonds. It was discovered last year.
By Joel Scanlon
16 Jan 2012
The Kayenta mine on the Navajo and Hopi reservations has been given a renewed operating permit. The mine in northern Arizona is owned by Peabody Energy Corp. The coal from the mine is used to feed the Navajo Generating Station.
By Joel Scanlon
15 Jan 2012
Australian mineral exploration company AXG Mining has signed an agreement with Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) listed Lara Exploration for the exploration of copper, gold, molybdenum porphyry projects in the Andahualyas Yauri mineral field located in south Peru.
By Joel Scanlon
15 Jan 2012
Australian-American Mining Corporation Limited Is now being traded on the highest tier of the OTCQX. The OTC Markets Group said that the company has chosen to have its American Depositary Receipts traded with them.
By Joel Scanlon
15 Jan 2012
Tragedy struck at the Agnew gold mine situated 23 km west of Leinster, WA, when a sheet of construction material fell on three people injuring them.
By Joel Scanlon
15 Jan 2012
More mining records were set by St Andrew Goldfields as they announced a record 22,350 ounces of gold for the last quarter of 2011. This is a 12% increase in the production of gold from the third quarter of 2011.