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Driven Capital Starts Shallow Drilling Program at Lyn Silver Project

Driven Capital has obtained the initial analytical results from its trenching and sampling program at the Lyn Silver project, which is located in Yukon’s Whitehorse Mining district.

23 Aug 2011

Xstrata Looks to Expand Mount Isa with Large Multi-Commodity Open Pit Mine

The Swiss mining company Xstrata has decided to start a $47 million study to transform its Mount Isa mining operation. The firm wishes to develop a large multi-commodity open pit mine at the already present mine in north west Queensland. The study is to begin in August and will be completed by early 2013.

11 Aug 2011

Full Metal Zinc Proclaims Ongoing Exploration Program at Fortymile Project

Full Metal Zinc has announced the ongoing surface exploration and drilling program at the Fortymile copper-lead-silver-zinc project in east-central Alaska.

6 Aug 2011

High Desert Gold Identifies New Gold-Silver Mineralization at San Antonio Project

High Desert Gold (HDG) has discovered two new excellent gold, silver and base metal mineralization areas, and also a skarn mineralization area at the San Antonio Project in Mexico.

From Gold Rate 6 Aug 2011

New Pacific Metals Releases Assay Results from Tagish Lake Property

New Pacific Metals has proclaimed the assay results of the initial step out hole, Raca11-01, at Tagish Lake gold-silver property’s Raca region in Yukon.

From New Pacific Metals Corp. 4 Aug 2011

Amex Exploration Pronounces Drilling Campaign at Nueva Escondida Property

AMEX Exploration has received all the essential license and permits for the drilling program at the Nueva Escondida property.

27 Jul 2011

Namibia Looks to Increase Mining Taxes

Namibia plans to get a larger slice out of the profits generated by mining by increasing its mining tax by 17%. Namibia is a country rich with mineral resources and a reasonably well established mining industry that already generates 25% of Namibia's revenue, mining is the single most important contributor to the economy.

25 Jul 2011

Molycor Gold Completes Drilling at Beaverdell Silver Property

Molycor Gold has completed the drilling program, which was announced earlier in June, 2011, at its Beaverdell silver project. This project is situated 4 km southeast of Beaverdell in British Columbia.

15 Jul 2011

Victory Resources Receives Phase I Drilling Results from Reforma Complex Ore Zone

Victory Resources has announced the phase I drilling program results, which was planned to explore the southward geological expansion of the significant Reforma complex ore zone.

14 Jul 2011

Greece Grants Mining Permit for European Goldfields Project

Greece is poised to become the largest gold producer in Europe as the European Goldfields project was finally approved by the current environment minister George Papaconstantinou. Shares in the company rose by 10% after it was confirmed that the long awaited government permit had been granted.

11 Jul 2011