October 24, 2011

Portage & Cliffs JV to Resume Drilling at Golden Ridge Deposit, New Brunswick

ST ANDREWS, NEW BRUNSWICK--(Marketwire - Oct. 24, 2011) - Portage Minerals Inc. ("Portage") (CNSX:RKX), today announced on behalf of the joint venture with Cliffs Chromite Ontario Inc. (f/k/a Freewest Resources…

October 24, 2011

Silvercorp rockets after clean bill from auditors

Silvercorp Metals, China’s biggest silver miner, was changing hands for $9.72 in Toronto on heavy volumes shortly after the open Monday, up almost 19% after a report by the forensic…

October 24, 2011

Concordia Resource to buy Swala Resources in 12,400 square kilometre Africa land grab

Concordia Resource Corp. (TSX VENTURE:CCN) ("Concordia") is pleased to announce that, further to its news release dated September 6, 2011, it has signed an arrangement agreement (the "Agreement") with Swala…

October 24, 2011

Rare Earth Metals Confirms REE Mineralization in East Lavergne Mineralized Zone on Its Springer Lavergne Prospect

Rare Earth Metals Inc. ("Rare Earth Metals", "RA" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:RA)(PINK SHEETS:RAREF)(OTCQX:RAREF) is pleased to report the completion of the initial drill program on the Lavergne REE Prospect.

October 24, 2011

Anaconda’s Pine Cove gold mine completes mill modification program

Anaconda Mining has successfully completed an extensive array of circuit upgrades and regularly scheduled maintenance with minimal downtime at its Pine Cove mill in Newfoundland. Anaconda planned to make modifications to…

October 23, 2011

Giant Mine cleanup concerns abound

Now, the federal government’s challenge is to keep the thousands of tonnes of arsenic trioxide dust frozen in the ground forever. Environmental and engineering experts wrapped up their week-long talks…

October 23, 2011

Minister Oliver Objects to the European Union’s Discrimination of Canadian Crude Oil

measure for the Fuel Quality Directive (FQD). The European Commission has recently proposed an implementing measure that differentiates oil sands crudes from all other sources of crude oil. Yet there…

October 22, 2011

Zimbabwe: Govt, Platinum Miner Wrestle Over Earnings

Harare As the crowd of anxious community members and stakeholders waited patiently at the Selous Metallurgical Complex (SMC) on Thursday last week, a white helicopter with blue strips droned past,…

October 22, 2011

Alberta calls EU oilsands label unfair

Text: A A The government of Alberta is calling the European Union's stand on the oilsands 'unfair' and a potential threat to trade ties. Alberta officials have written to EU…

October 21, 2011

Mineral explorers support fair settlement to address consequences of the uranium exploration ban in British Columbia

Today the Association for Mineral Exploration BC (AME BC) expressed its strong support of the BC government’s recent $30 million out of court settlement with Boss Power Corp and its…