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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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..

Cleveland-Cliffs Reaches Tentative Agreement with United Steelworkers on New Labor Contract for Michigan and Minnesota Mining Operations

Cleveland-Cliffs Inc, which will be renamed Cliffs Natural Resources in the coming months, today announced a tentative agreement with the United Steelworkers (USW), on a new four-year labor contract that will cover approximately 2,300 USW-represented workers at Cliffs’ Empire and Tilden Mines in Michigan,... Read more..

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AK Steel and USW Reach Early Labor Agreement for Ashland Coke Plant

AK Steel said today that members of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 8-523 have overwhelmingly ratified a new three-year labor agreement covering about 240 hourly production and maintenance employees at the company’s Ashland, Kentucky coke plant. The new agreement takes effect immediately and runs... Read more..

U. S. Steel Tubular Products, Inc. Reaches Tentative Agreement with United Steelworkers on New Labor Contract for Texas Operations Division

United States Steel Corporation announced that its U. S. Steel Tubular Products, Inc. subsidiary reached a tentative agreement with the United Steelworkers (USW) on a new four-year labor contract that will cover approximately 900 USW-represented employees at U. S. Steel Tubular Products, Inc.’s... Read more..

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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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..

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..