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..

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Cardero Provides Update on the Pampa El Toro Iron Sand Project, Marcona District, Southern Peru

Cardero Resource Corp. provide an update on the Pampa El Toro (PET) iron sands project, located in the Marcona district, Peru. Cardero is currently focusing on two production scenarios for PET iron concentrate, involving near-term iron concentrate production and medium-term pig iron production. The first... Read more..

Aura Silver Reports High Grade Copper, Zinc and Precious Metal Samples from Greyhound Lake Project

Aura Silver Resources Inc. announce results of a field program undertaken in August on the Greyhound Lake project in Nunavut. Samples collected during the field work contained up to 4.1% copper (Cu), 13.4% zinc (Zn), 8% lead (Pb), 2800 grams per tonne (g/t) silver (Ag) and 28g/t gold (Au). The mineralization... Read more..

Aura Silver Resources Reports Update on the Taviche Property and Announces Acquisition in High Grade Antimony District in Oaxaca, Mexico

Aura Silver Resources Inc. wishes to report a strategic change to their joint venture program with Intrepid Mines Limited on the Taviche properties in Oaxaca, Mexico. As recently reported, the JV has determined that the size and potential of the Higo Blanco project is greater than previously anticipated.... Read more..

Mexivada starts diamond mining at Kono, Sierra Leone; Larger diamond found at Lepandza, ROC Congo

Sierra Leone Projects: Mexivada Mining Corp. (MNV.V) has begun diamond mining near Koidu Town, in the heart of the famous, world class Kono mining district of Sierra Leone. Hundreds of millions of US Dollars worth of diamonds are produced from the district every year, including many fancy-colored stones.... Read more..

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Midway Gold Announces Project Updates and Plans for 2009

Midway Gold Corp. announce 2009 work plans will primarily be focused on the Golden Eagle project in Washington and the Midway project in Nevada. Exploration at the Spring Valley project is expected to continue under a proposed earn-in agreement, previously announced (PR October 20, 2008). The Thunder... Read more..

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Shoreham Farms Out Black Banana Gold Project in Guyana

Shoreham Resources Ltd., a Canadian based exploration company dedicated to the exploration of advanced precious metal and polymetallic deposits in South America and Canada, is pleased to announce that the company has signed a Letter of Intent (”LOI”) with Mulgravian Ventures Corporation (a... Read more..

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Fronteer Announces Intention to Acquire Aurora Energy Resources Inc.

Fronteer Development Group Inc. announced that it intends to make an offer to acquire all of the outstanding common shares of Aurora Energy Resources Inc. that it does not already own. Pursuant to the Offer, Aurora shareholders will receive 0.825 of a Fronteer common share for each Common Share. The... Read more..

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..

Freewest Set to Resume Diamond Drilling on Its 100%-Owned McFaulds Property in Northern Ontario

Mackenzie I. Watson, President and CEO of Freewest Resources Canada Inc. announces that diamond drilling is set to resume on the Company’s wholly-owned McFaulds property (the “Property”). The Property, consisting of 4 mineral claims or 1036 hectares, comprises one of three properties... Read more..