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..
ATW Venture Corp. announce that it has closed its purchase transaction to acquire 100% of the Gullewa Gold Mine Project and associated operating assets (collectively, the “Gullewa Project”). The Gullewa Project is located in the Yalgoo mineral field of Western Australia, about 300 kilometres... Read more..
Claude Resources Inc. will continue its underground drill program, targeted at the historic high grade 8 Zone, and concurrently execute its surface exploration program at the Company’s Madsen property located at Red Lake, Ontario. Phase 1 of the underground program, launched from the 10th level... Read more..
Great Basin Gold Ltd, announces that the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection/Bureau of Mining Regulation and Reclamation (NDEP) recently issued one of the key permits needed for a full-scale underground mining operation by its wholly owned subsidiary, Rodeo Creek Gold Inc. (RCG), at the Hollister... Read more..
Ameron International Corporation announced the appointment of Richard I. Mueller as Group President of the Water Transmission Group effective January 19, 2009. In his new position, Mueller will report to Gary Wagner, Ameron’s President and Chief Operating Officer. Mueller had been Senior Vice President... Read more..
Eaglecrest Explorations Ltd. report that a new exploration work has highlighted the Buriti gold target at the San Simon project in Northeastern Bolivia. As part of the on-going district exploration program, a total of 68 surface rock chip samples were collected in November-December 2008 and returned... Read more..
Fronteer Development Group Inc. announce that widely spaced regional drilling at its Halilaga Project in northwestern Turkey has intersected encouraging new copper-gold mineralization, reinforcing the prospectivity of this emerging mineral belt. Teck Cominco Limited’s Turkish subsidiary, Fronteer’s... Read more..
COGITORE Resources Inc. announces that it has filed on SEDAR the feasibility study by engineering firm GENIVAR on the company’s 100% owned Estrades Mining Lease in northwestern Quebec. The study is in the form of a NI43-101 compliant Technical Report and consists of an exhaustive evaluation of... Read more..
Great Basin Gold Ltd. announces that it has signed an agreement with Metallic Ventures Gold Inc, whereby the Company will purchase the Esmeralda processing plant (”Mill”) in Nevada, inclusive of the Esmeralda mine and infrastructure for US$2 million. The Company’s decision to purchase... Read more..
Trevali Resources Corp. announce it has received highly positive results from initial independent metallurgical testing of its high-grade Magistral Norte zone on the Santander silver-lead-zinc mine project in Peru. Recoveries to the separate rougher concentrates are: silver 84.5%, lead 95% and zinc 91%,... Read more..