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North American Nickel Conducts Drilling Program at Post Creek Property

North American Nickel (NAN) is conducting the 1,500 m of drilling campaign at the Post Creek property. The focus of drilling is on the modeled plates, which were obtained from Abitibi Geophysics’ ground EM survey.

20 Oct 2011

Albania Looks to Reform Mining Sector and Issue New Leases

Albania is looking to give its mining industry a major boost as it plans on issuing 151 mining licenses this year. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Mining said on Thursday that they planned to allocate 20 of these mining licenses in weekly competitions.

9 Oct 2011

Minnesota Delays Mining Leases Decision

The decision to sell leases that would allow mining firms to explore for minerals on private land in north eastern Minnesota was delayed.

9 Oct 2011

Rainy River Resources Announces Palladium and Platinum Assays from Pinewood South

Rainy River Resources has reported the assay results of the palladium and platinum from the fresh nickel discovery, which is located at the Rainy River gold project in northwestern Ontario. The company is carrying out the diamond drill program for 170,000 m during 2011.

1 Oct 2011

Prophecy Platinum Receives Drilling Results from Wellgreen Project

Prophecy Platinum has obtained the drilling results from the Wellgreen PGE-Ni-Cu project. It has intersected 0.47% NiEq over 457 m that contains 0.72 g/t Platinum+Palladium+Gold (Pt+Pd+Au) from the surface to the footwall and also 1.03% nickel, 0.74% copper, 3.14 g/t Pt+Pd+Au over 17.8 m in the hole WS11-188 in this large mineralization.

28 Sep 2011

Report Finds Australian Miners Already Paying Over 40% Tax

A new report that was commissioned by the Minerals Council of Australia says that miners will pay close to $23.4 billion in tax to federal and state governments in 2010-11 financial year. Deloitte Access Economics said in the report that the mining industry has paid an average tax of 41.5% from the financial years between 2007-8 to 2009-10.

5 Sep 2011

Zenyatta Ventures Begins Phase II Drilling at Albany Project

Zenyatta Ventures has begun a phase II drilling campaign at the Albany project, which is located near Hearst in north-east Ontario.

3 Sep 2011

Prophecy Platinum Releases Initial Hole Results from Wellgreen Project

Prophecy Platinum has released the assay results of the initial holes from its 2011 drill campaign at the Wellgreen project. The company has intersected 0.43% NiEq over 472.6 m of mineralization from the surface to the footwall contact in the borehole WS11-184.

24 Aug 2011

Victory Nickel Discovers Nickel Mineralization at Minago’s Nose Deposit

Victory Nickel has discovered a formerly strange western expansion of nickel mineralization at the Nose Deposit. The location of this deposit is at Minago nickel project in Manitoba.

10 Aug 2011