Steele Resources Corporation is a small California-based firm which has re-opened a defunct mine west of the town of Pony in western Montana. The Cameron Park based company has started removing piles of waste rock from the old Atlantic and Pacific mine.
By Joel Scanlon
28 Sep 2011
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has asked the Houston based environmental consulting firm Cardno ENTRIX to perform an environmental impact study for the Haile gold mine located near Kershaw.
Empire Mining Corp. have announced the discovery of a continuous copper and gold anomalous zone in the Southwest Zone of the Demirtepe project in Turkey.
By Joel Scanlon
28 Sep 2011
ArcelorMittal South Africa has still to find a black empowerment partner as it breaks off talks to sell 26% interest in the company to a group of black investors known as the Ayigobi Consortium, which included a son of the South African President Jacob Zuma.
By Joel Scanlon
28 Sep 2011
Namakwa Diamonds has sold all mining and exploration operations in Congo to a company led by its management team. This sale in the Democratic Republic of Congo is part of a major restructuring exercise.
By Joel Scanlon
28 Sep 2011
Prophecy Platinum has obtained the drilling results from the Wellgreen PGE-Ni-Cu project. It has intersected 0.47% NiEq over 457 m that contains 0.72 g/t Platinum+Palladium+Gold (Pt+Pd+Au) from the surface to the footwall and also 1.03% nickel, 0.74% copper, 3.14 g/t Pt+Pd+Au over 17.8 m in the hole WS11-188 in this large mineralization.
By Joel Scanlon
28 Sep 2011
Platinex has announced the ongoing development of the rock and till sampling campaign at the Shining Tree property in Ontario. Based on the positive basal till sampling campaign during 2008-2011, the company has sampled the targets to the inferred source by employing the fine fraction of tills that were examined for gold and other elements.
Parlane Resource has provided details on its multiphase exploration campaign at the Big Bear project. The company has obtained the results from the first phase of the stream sediment-sampling campaign and has sent phase II soil samples to the laboratory.
By Joel Scanlon
28 Sep 2011
Midlands Minerals has engaged the Ghana-based Geodrill to perform a fresh drill campaign at its Kaniago gold project, Ghana.
Marifil Mines has commenced a phosphate exploration campaign at the Neuquen sedimentary basin in Argentina. Based on the results of the reconnaissance sampling program, the company has applied for two mining claims, totaling 7,700 ha area.
By Joel Scanlon
28 Sep 2011
INV Metals has reported the 2011 drilling results from the Okohongo deposit, which is a copper-silver deposit situated in the Kaoko property, northwest Namibia.
By Joel Scanlon
28 Sep 2011
Blackham Resources has reported positive results of lignite samples from the initial coal upgrading test work conducted at its Scaddan coal project, situated in Western Australia.
By Joel Scanlon
27 Sep 2011
Cabo Drilling, a drilling services company in North Vancouver, has reported that the company’s Eastern European branch in Albania has secured a primary drilling contract from Empire Mining to drill 1,250 m up-hole NQ underground holes at the Bulqiza 1440 project, which comes under the Bulqiza-Batra License of Empire.
By Joel Scanlon
27 Sep 2011
FieldPoint Petroleum has commenced the drilling program at East Lusk 15 in New Mexico during August. The company has calculated that it will take around 60 days for completing the drilling well.
By Joel Scanlon
27 Sep 2011
Invenio Resources has completed the field work at its Candle Hills and Ganes Creek gold projects in Alaska.
By Joel Scanlon
27 Sep 2011