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%, and display excellent separation of the silver-lead and zinc mineralization. These initial [...]

RiverRun Resources Inc. announces the execution of a services contract with Logistica y Servicios Aluviales San Lorenzo SAC to develop the company’s 79 km2 of mining properties in the Gold Sands district of northeastern Peru. The company has the option to acquire up to 100% of the mineral rights on terms previously disclosed.
RiverRun has [...]

Goldstake Explorations Inc. announce that the company has officially earned a 60% interest in the Clay Property from Transpacific Resources Inc. Goldstake earned the majority interest in the Clay Property after incurring exploration expenditures to-date of $1.8 million. Exploration on the property by Goldstake is part of an option agreement with Transpacific allowing Goldstake to [...]

Alcoa announced that it is featuring numerous examples of how green buildings start with Alcoa aluminum at the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, which starts today in Boston. The Alcoa booth (#126) provides an overview of the many aluminum products that help the building and construction industry make strides in reducing energy consumption and emissions [...]

AuEx Ventures, Inc. report new gold drill intercepts, including hole LC149 returning 80 feet (24.4 meters) at 0.091 ounces per ton (3.12 grams per tonne), and hole LC147 returning 25 feet (7.6 meters) at 0.088 ounces per ton (3.01 grams per tonne) that extends shallow, oxide gold mineralization another 328 feet (100 meters) northeast along [...]

Nord Resources Corporation, which is reactivating copper mining at the Johnson Camp Mine in Arizona, today announced that a Scoping Study has found that the company can cost-effectively increase its production from the Johnson Camp to an estimated rate of 40 millions pounds of copper per year from the current plan of 25 million pounds [...]

Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited announced that it is conducting a tour for analysts and investors of its new Kittila gold mine and facilities in northern Finland on November 18, 2008. Construction commenced at the 100% owned Kittila mine project in northern Finland in the second quarter of 2006. Kittila has probable gold reserves of 3.0 million [...]

Aleris International, Inc. announced that it will be fully idling production at its Richmond, Virginia rolling mill due to the continuing downturn in the North American building and construction industry. Earlier this year, Aleris announced that it idled all production for third parties at the Richmond site and that all remaining production would be used [...]