Volta Resources Inc. report assay results from nineteen out of thirty-eight diamond drill holes from its 2008 diamond drilling program at its Gaoua copper-gold porphyry project in southern Burkina Faso, West Africa.
In April 2008 an extensive diamond drilling program aimed at extending the mineralization identified in 2007 at the Company’s Gongondy and Dienemera copper-gold porphyry [...]

Volta Resources Inc. wishes to announce the results from a reverse circulation (”RC”) scout drilling program carried out on its wholly-owned Bansié Gold Project, located in the southern Hounde Belt, an emerging gold camp in Burkina Faso, West Africa.
The drilling program was designed to test approximately 1km of a 2km long rock chip and gold-in-soil [...]

Brian McEwen, President and CEO of Buffalo Gold Ltd. announce the first NI 43-101 compliant resource estimate at the Furtei gold mine in Sardinia, Italy. The resource estimate includes Measured and Indicated sulphide resources of 425,800 ounces gold, including 5.73 million tonnes at 2.3 g/t gold, 0.24% copper and 3.06 g/t silver at a 1 [...]

Volta Resources Inc. is pleased to announce that drilling has commenced on its wholly-owned Bansié Gold Project, located in the southern Hounde Belt, an emerging gold camp in Burkina Faso (see News Release of April, 7th, 2008).
The 28-hole program of approximately 2,000 metres of reverse circulation drilling will test a large rock- and gold-in-soil anomaly. [...]

The Timken Company announced that its industrial bearing services continue to grow in Asia. Timken Industrial Services’ latest customer in the region is Baosteel, China’s largest iron and steel manufacturer.
Baosteel first commissioned Timken to repair and recondition bearings on a cold rolling temper mill, and after receiving like-new bearings and saving approximately 50 percent compared [...]

Worldwide industrial services company Harsco Corporation (NYSE:HSC) announced that its worldwide mill services division has been awarded a new ten-year contract valued at more than $60 million over its duration to provide on-site environmental services to ArcelorMittal’s massive Dunkirk steel works in northern France. The contract underscores Harsco’s growing role in developing and executing integrated [...]

Alcan Packaging, part of Rio Tinto Alcan, announced that its Global Beauty division has signed a Share Purchase Agreement to acquire the Tubapak cosmetic tubes manufacturing facility in Russia.
“This acquisition illustrates our growth strategy”, said Ilene S. Gordon, president and CEO, Alcan Packaging. “It will enable us to significantly increase our capability in the attractive [...]

ArcelorMittal and Primex (Germany) have reached an agreement whereby ArcelorMittal Stainless International is acquiring the 35% stake in Uginox Sanayi ve Ticaret Limited Sirketi (“Uginox”) which was owned by Primex.
Uginox was formed in 1997 as a 65/35 joint venture between Arcelor and Primex. Uginox operates a coil processing and service centre in Gebze, close to [...]

ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest integrated metals and mining company, announces that it intends to acquire 60% of the entire issued share capital of DSTC FZCO, a newly incorporated company located in the Dubai free zone.
Together with DSTC FZCO, ArcelorMittal is widening its offering in the Middle Eastern area. DSTC FZCO will acquire the main business [...]