Avalon Ventures Ltd. provide the following progress report on the 2008 work program on its 100% owned Thor Lake Rare Metals project located near Yellowknife, NWT. The summer drilling program on the Lake Zone Rare Earth Element (”REE”) deposit concluded in September bringing the cumulative totals since drilling commenced in 2007 to 16,640 metres in [...]

Ironworker Management Progressive Action Cooperative Trust (IMPACT) founders, Joseph J. Hunt and William Brown, will be honored on Thursday, September 11, 2008 at the American Institute of Steel Construction’s (AISC) annual meeting, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, for receiving the AISC Special Achievement Award.
This award honors individuals who have made a difference in AISC’s and the [...]

TRI-STAR HOLDINGS, INC., a publicly traded company currently on the Over the Counter, announced the Company has contacted a geologist and an analyst to verify existing reports on the “Lucky Linda” claim’s gold, silver and platinum reserves. The analyst will also specifically assist in targeted analysis as to where the company should begin its preliminary [...]

At the 14th European Microscopy Conference opening today, Bruker AXS Microanalysis announced the European launch of several new products and options for Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) based materials analysis.
The innovative new QUANTAX CrystAlignTM system for SEM-based crystallographic analysis via electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) consists of an ultra-fast EBSD detector and powerful, yet easy-to-use EBSD analysis [...]

CMQ Resources Inc. has effected a consolidation of its issued and outstanding common shares on a ten for one basis. The Consolidation was previously approved by shareholders at CMQ’s Annual and Special Meeting of Shareholders on August 13, 2008. All fractional Common Shares were rounded down to the nearest whole Common Share. The [...]

Curtiss-Wright Corporation announced that it has submitted a letter to VMETRO ASA stating its intention to launch a voluntary offer to acquire 100% of the outstanding stock of VMETRO ASA at a price per share of NOK 12.06 in cash.
The launch of the voluntary offer is subject to certain contingencies, including completion of a limited [...]

SPI Lasers, a leading designer and manufacturer of fiber lasers, today announced its latest pulsed product, a 30W fiber laser is aimed at faster and higher quality marking, engraving and ablation applications.
The 30W pulsed laser, extends the output power of the existing product range. The laser has a typical M2 of 3.2 giving a more [...]

VenCan Gold Corporation announces an amendment to the proposed brokered and non-brokered private placement financing, as described in the July 24th press release. The financing will consist of the sale of up to 13,000,000 units at a price of $0.05 per unit to be sold on a flow-through basis for gross proceeds of up to [...]

Baja Mining Corp. provides the following update on the development of the El Boleo Project, Mexico.
Korean Consortium Transaction
The Company closed the sale of a 30% interest in the El Boleo Project on May 30th 2008 and received the initial payment of approximately US$90 million from the Korean Consortium (the “Partners”) in early July. Baja’s 70% [...]

Cognex Corporation announced that China Steel Corporation, a Taiwan-based manufacturer of integrated steel products, has placed an order for seven Cognex SmartView® surface inspection systems. This multi-million dollar sale represents the largest single order that Cognex’s Surface Inspection Systems Division (SISD) has ever received. The SmartView systems will be used to perform automated quality inspection [...]