News

Liberty Mineral Exploration (LBE-V) is calculating the resource at the McAra Lake cobalt deposit in northeastern Ontario, following infill drilling on cobaltite veins.

Vancouver-based Dynasty Metals & Mining (DMM-V) has received encouraging results from ongoing trenching and soil sampling on the Papayal porphyry discovery in southern Ecuador.

Resurgent metal and oil prices helped push the TSX Venture Exchange to another strong performance for the period ended Oct. 5, as the S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index continued its blistering pace, rising another 75.55 points, or 4.8%, to 1,658.91…

Drilling by Golden Valley Mines (GZZ-V) at the West Shoot Out nickel-copper prospect in the Ungava Peninsula of Quebec has cut a significant width of disseminated-to-massive-sulphide mineralization.

Vancouver — Goldbrook Ventures (GBK-V) has confirmed the presence of high grades of nickel, copper and platinum group elements in core pulled from the Getty zone of the Belanger property in northern Quebec.

Alexis Minerals (AMC-V) is encouraged by gold and copper results from channel sampling on the Oramaque property, east of Val d’Or, Que.

The following insider trading transactions were reported by the Ontario Securities Commission in recent issues of the OSC Bulletin:…

Specialty and light-metals company Timminco (TIM-T) has added silicon metal and ferro-silicon to its mix of products by acquiring Quebec-based Bcancour Silicon.

Canadian Royalties (CZZ-T) has released a new resource estimate for the Lac Mequillon nickel-copper deposit in the Ungava district of Quebec.

Conversion of resources to reserves and a revision of economic cutoff grades have boosted reserves at the Tarkwa-Damang gold operation in Ghana.

BHP Billiton (BHP-N) has negotiated iron ore sale commitments from four Chinese steel mills. The commitments have a potential value of US$3.2 billion over the next 10 years.