Alcoa Sets Dates for Employee Layoffs at Rockdale Smelter Due to Local Power Issues

Alcoa said it has set dates for the layoff of approximately 300 employees at its Rockdale, Texas, aluminum smelter where the company has idled half of its production. In addition, approximately 100 contract employees will be affected. The plant was partially shut in June 2008 because of ongoing supply... Read more..

Assay Results Confirm the Continuation of Near Surface Mineralization at Slam Exploration’s Nash Creek Deposit

SLAM Exploration Ltd. announces assay results for 35 additional holes drilled at its wholly-owned Nash Creek Project in New Brunswick. The majority of these holes intersected near surface mineralization including NC08-166 with 2.73% zinc + lead over 36.5 metres and NC08-174 with 4.76% over 16.3 metres. Based... Read more..

Tag: slam assay

China to build $400 million aluminum smelter in Trinidad

China will help build a $400 million aluminum smelter in Trinidad’s southern region, according to the leader of the Caribbean island. Prime Minister Patrick Manning did not say when construction would start or how many tons of aluminum would be produced yearly. Trinidad would run the factory using... Read more..

Mexoro Minerals Announces Inferred 15.25 Million Tons Grading 2.62 g/t Gold Equivalent at Its Cieneguita Project in Mexico

Mexoro Minerals Ltd. announce that it has updated its preliminary technical report estimate at its Cieneguita Project located in Chihuahua, Mexico. The Company finalized its current drilling program finishing 100 holes for a total of 20,215 meters of drilling. The Company is waiting for the results from... Read more..

Tag: mexoro

Cadillac Announces Joint Venture in Spain

Cadillac Ventures Inc. announce that it has signed a joint venture agreement with Minas de Aguas Tenidas, S.A., a wholly owned subsidiary of Iberian Minerals Corp. encompassing 14 properties totalling approximately 232 km(2) within the prolific Iberian Pyrite Belt of southern Spain. Iberian is presently... Read more..

Iberian Minerals Corp. Subsidiary Signs Exploration Joint Venture With Cadillac Ventures in Andalusia Region

Iberian Minerals Corp. announces that the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Minas de Aguas Tenidas, S.A. has entered into a joint venture agreement with Cadillac Ventures Inc., a Canadian junior exploration company. The Agreement relates to 14 properties comprising all or part of 24 Mining Concessions... Read more..

Rio Tinto Alcan alters role in Ma’aden aluminium project

Rio Tinto Alcan is revising its participation from an equity partner in the integrated aluminum “mine-to-metal” project in Saudi Arabia to the role of working with Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden) towards project development through a smelter technology transfer agreement and... Read more..

Cardero Commences Metallurgical Program for Pampa El Toro Iron Sand Project, Marcona District, Southern Peru

Cardero Resource Corp. to the world-class Pampa De Pongo iron deposit which the Company has recently sold to a Chinese group for USD 200 million. The Company is currently undertaking a pilot-scale pig iron production program using Pampa El Toro (PET) iron ore concentrate produced from Cardero’s... Read more..

Tag: gold plant flow sheet, cardero resources pampa el torro peru, cardero flow sheet, flow sheet marcona

Champion Minerals Completes Initial Field Work on Fermont Iron Property

CHAMPION MINERALS INC. provide shareholders with an update on results of the initial field work completed to date as part of the Phase 1 exploration program on the 15 mineral concessions (refer to the appended table for a complete listing of concessions), of the Fermont Iron Property (the “Property”)... Read more..

Stillwater Mining Company Completes Review of Operations: Will Restructure Operations and Reduce Workforce

STILLWATER MINING COMPANY announced immediate plans to restructure its operations and reduce and redeploy portions of its workforce. The move is largely focused on the Company’s East Boulder Mine operations south of Big Timber, although the Company’s Stillwater Mine at Nye, Columbus Metallurgical... Read more..