August 9, 2012 Tides Canada accused of ‘blatantly violating Canadian charities law’; complaint filed with Canada Revenue Agency Canadian oil industry support group, EthicalOil.org, filed a 143-page complaint with the Canada Revenue Agency accusing Tides Canada of funnelling charitable donations to highly political, and non-charitable, groups like PETA…
August 9, 2012 Winning iron at the Olympics. Fresh charges of conflict of interest over giant Arctic iron mine The president of the Qikiqtani Inuit Association is on a junket at the London Olympics as a guest of ArcelorMittal, which is in the final stages of getting approval for…
August 9, 2012 Romios provides an update on its exploration program in the Golden Triangle, northwestern British Columbia To date, Romios has completed 10 diamond drill holes totalling 1,815 metres on its Ken, Northwest-Jazzman, and '72 Zone exploration targets located within its Newmont Lake project
August 9, 2012 Eagle Hill drills 5.89 g/t gold over 18.6 m at Windfall Lake Near surface drilling at the Windfall Lake project returned an interval of 18.6 meters assaying 5.89 g/t gold.
August 8, 2012 West Melville commences summer exploration program on the Fraser Bay project, Nunavut The 2012 summer program, budgeted at $1.5 million, is scheduled to run until early-September. The program is to complete an extensive channel sampling campaign over the full strike length of…
August 8, 2012 Hecla Mining’s bid to take over US Silver falls through US Silver board of directors voted instead to merge with Canadian RX Gold & Silver and form a new firm.
August 8, 2012 Miners to finally stop rejecting each other’s advances For those who expected that Canada’s reporting season would give its subdued mergers-and-acquisitions market a good push, consultants from Ernst & Young have a clear message: a merging frenzy this…
August 8, 2012 APM finalizes terms to acquire the Donkin coal and other North American assets of Erdene Resource Development Corp. APM has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Erdene Resources Inc., comprised primarily of Erdene's interest in the Donkin Coal Project in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
August 8, 2012 Debut announces phase one exploration program at Nakina project The Ontario-based Nakina project covers a total of 85 mining claims, where Debut holds a 100% interest in 57 of the claims and has an option to earn a 70%…
August 8, 2012 Fairmont begins summer field work program at Marmion South Trending structures identified by the 2011 geophysical survey correlate favourably with trends observed in Osisko's property to the north which had 530.6 tonnes at an average grade of 0.62 g/t…
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