Franconia Minerals Receives Final Loan and Grant Payments From the State of Minnesota for Birch Lake

Franconia Minerals Corporation report that it has received all funds from the State of Minnesota related to its 2006 loan agreement, providing the Company with a total of US$2.0 million in loans and US$500,000 in the form of a non-repayable grant. According to the original terms of the 2006 loan agreement,... Read more..

PolyMet Receives Draft EIS From Department of Natural Resources

PolyMet Mining Corp. announced that it has received the draft Environmental Impact Statement (”EIS”) assessing the Company’s proposed mine development project located in the established mining district of the Mesabi Iron Range in northeastern Minnesota. PolyMet controls 100% of the... Read more..

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Trinity Comes Up With a Large Copper-Gold-Silver Play at its Manarsa Tres Property, Northern Peru

TRINITY MINING HOLDING AG announce that a large 1.5 km by 0.75 km I.P. anomaly, interpreted to be associated with a potential large copper-gold-silver disseminated mineralization, has been detected in a recent geophysical survey conducted on its 600 hectares Manarsa Tres property located in the department... Read more..

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Escala Mine Initial Development Nearing Completion

Franklin Mining, Inc. continues to develop the Escala in a joint-venture with Corporación Minera de Bolivia (COMIBOL) and Cooperativa Minera INTI Ltda. Escala Mina I, located in the Sud Lipez Province, San Pablo Canton, Department of Potosi, Bolivia, was established during the Spanish colonial period. Franklin... Read more..

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Alturas Defines Large Geophysical Targets Beneath Copper-Gold Anomalies at Its Sombrero Project, Peru

Alturas Minerals Corp. report that a recently completed ground geophysical survey has defined large, deeply rooted geophysical anomalies beneath strong copper-gold anomalies at its Sombrero project in southern Peru. The induced polarization anomalies form two circular centers beneath strong copper-gold... Read more..

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BacTech Partners With University of Toronto Researchers to Advance Its Bioleaching Technology

BacTech Mining Corporation announce that is has begun working with University of Toronto researchers, Dr. Grant Ferris and Dr. Chris Kennedy. Dr. Ferris, a Professor in the University’s Department of Geology, is also the Director of the Microbial Geochemistry Laboratory (”MGL”), with... Read more..

Pacific Gold Corp. Prepares for Gold Production

Pacific Gold Corp. announced that its subsidiary, Nevada Rae Gold has begun and completed the first phase of the plant modifications that were previously approved by the local governing agency, the Nevada Department of Environmental Protection (NDEP) for the Black Rock Canyon Mine. The trommel, conveyors,... 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..

Central Sun Mining Inc.: High Grade Gold Intersected at Orosi; New Resource Estimation in Progress for Limon & Orosi

Central Sun Mining Inc. provide the final results from its successful 2008 exploration program at the Limon and Orosi Mine areas and the Mestiza-La India project in Nicaragua. “The 2008 exploration program has been very successful; we have achieved our objectives of outlining new gold zones that... Read more..

Technical Report proposes immense mineral potential tonnages in polymetallic black shale at Dumont’s SBH Property, Alberta

DUMONT NICKEL INC. announce that a NI-43-101 compliant Technical Report for its 100% held Alberta SBH polymetallic black shale Property has been filed on www.SEDAR.com. The Report is also available from DUMONT’s website. DUMONT concluded acquisition of the Property in July, 2008, and has not... Read more..