Quantum Rare Earth Developments has started drilling operations at the Elk Creek Carbonatite project in southeastern Nebraska.
By Joel Scanlon
27 Apr 2011
Dejour Energy has announced that it will drill a primary well vertically to analyze the Mancos/Niobrara prospective at its 7,000-acre leasehold in Rio Blanco County, Colorado.
By Joel Scanlon
27 Apr 2011
Trelawney Mining and Exploration has submitted the technical report on the Cote Lake deposit in Chester property, Canada to regulatory authorities. Roscoe Postle Associates has prepared this report dated on April 21, 2011.
Bering Exploration has commenced the process, which is to be approved by the Texas State to perform drilling operations in Texas. The company is anticipating the approval in the subsequent thirty days.
By Joel Scanlon
27 Apr 2011
Wildcat Silver has released two additional step-out hole results from its Hermosa property in Santa Cruz County, Arizona.
By Joel Scanlon
27 Apr 2011
Mart Resources, Midwestern Oil and Gas and SunTrust Oil have announced positive preliminary assay results from the first zone at UMU-7 well, which is situated in the Umusadege field, onshore Nigeria.
By Joel Scanlon
27 Apr 2011
Estrella Gold has begun a 2,500 meter core drilling program at its Pucarana gold project in southern Peru.
By Joel Scanlon
27 Apr 2011
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is to begin an action of 621 parcels of land for mineral leases on Thursday. This is in spite of landowner concerns regarding the issue. The opponents of the process feel that the state is allowing too much prospecting too fast and there may be severe repercussions.
By Joel Scanlon
26 Apr 2011
Crowflight Minerals said that it had received permission from the Mine Safety Branch of the Manitoba Government to resume its operations at the Bucko Lake Nickel Mine on April 22, 2011.
By Joel Scanlon
26 Apr 2011
The ban on sand mining in non-coastal regulatory zone areas of Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg have been lifted for two years. The Ministry of Environment and Forests has announced that the ban was temporarily lifted on Monday. The lifting of the ban will bring relief to builders in the Indian state of Maharashtra who have been facing a shortfall of sand for construction purposes.
By Joel Scanlon
26 Apr 2011
In a bid to diversify and grow Barrick Gold has stepped into the copper market by masterminding a $7.14 billion aquisition of Equinox Minerals. In a move that shook up the mining industry the Canadian miner said that it was planning to expand its potential gold and copper reserves by buying Equinox Minerals on Tuesday. This puts rest to Minmetals’s takeover bid for the company which was of $7.3 billion value.
Wayne Swan the Australian Treasurer said in his weekly economic note that the Budget would be focusing on spending cuts. He said that the government would be required to cut down on expenses as the current mining boom will place inflationary pressures on the economy.
By Joel Scanlon
26 Apr 2011
Torex Gold Resources has stepped out the first drilling at Guajes West deposit on Morelos Gold Project in Mexico and intercepted high-grade gold beyond the northeast resource border.
By Joel Scanlon
26 Apr 2011
Golden Reign Resources has signed an agreement with Canchi Perforaciones de Nicaragua to contract a second drill rig for the San Albino-Murra gold property in Nicaragua.
By Joel Scanlon
26 Apr 2011
Uranium North Resource has signed an agreement with North Arrow Minerals to buy information to explore the Nowyak gold/silver property in Nunavut.
By Joel Scanlon
26 Apr 2011