Articles Tagged "mining"

Romarco Minerals gets more land

Romarco Minerals Inc. has reported that it has acquired more land near to the Halle Gold Mine in South Carolina. The Ridgeway Mine, Haile Gold Mine, Brewer Mine (former producing gold mines) and Buzzard are situated along a SW-NE gold trend known as the Slate Belt of the Carolinas. Diane Garrett, President and CEO commented: [...]

Pacific Iron Ore provides update

Additional channel sample results with respect to the St. Anthony’s Gold project has been announced by Pacific Iron Ore Corporation (TSX.V: POC). The project has the potential to host gold resources. These results confirm historic grades from the St. Anthony mine area and demonstrate widespread gold mineralization over a large area. In light of the [...]

Atlanta Gold purchases royalty on property

A 1% net smelter return royalty on production from the Atlanta gold mine, which is currently under development, has been purchased by Atlanta Gold Inc (TSX: ATG). Earlier, in 2003, a 2% royalty was granted to Canadian American Mining Company LLC when the company acquired the remaining 20% participating interest in the property from CAMC. [...]

Sheltered Oak purchases rights to Larder Lake

Sheltered Oak Resources Corp has announced that it has purchased the rights to Sage Gold Inc’s interests in the Larder Lake Mining District in Kerrs Township in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt of Ontario. Sage will receive 2 million common shares of Sheltered Oak Resources and $5 million in cash. Sage will also receive a 2% [...]

Premier Gold Mines gets $5.5 million

Canadian-based mineral exploration and development company Premier Gold Mines (TSX: PG) has teamed up with Jones, Gable & Company Limited and placed its shares at $3.65. Premier plans to use the gross proceeds from the sale of the shares for exploration programs to be conducted on the Hardrock project, Red Lake projects and PQ North [...]

Investors Being Pushed Towards Gold

By Kishori Krishnan Exclusive To Gold Investing News An insurance company getting into gold? That’s right. America’s third largest life insurer, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance which has been in existence for 152 years, has never in all those years bought gold. Until now. The company has disclosed it recently invested around US$400 million to buy [...]

Increased production Hinges on new mineralized zones

As an emerging gold producer, San Gold (SGR:TSX-V) is steadily building its production portfolio through continued exploration success on its Rice Lake Project in mining friendly Manitoba.   Since it acquired the past producing Rice Lake mine in 2004, the company has nearly tripled its audited gold resources from 550,000 ounces to over 1.6 million [...]

Gold Band: Gold Production Imminent

Saskatchewan is not typically synonymous with gold output. It’s uranium and potash that dominate the mining news for the most part there. CEO Rodney Orr stated: We’ve kept our focus on the La Ronge Gold Belt since 1993. For full story, click here

Highland Gold Mining suffered $231 loss

Highland Gold Mining, the Russian-focused miner one-third-owned by Roman Abramovich, announced that it has made a pre-tax loss of $231m last year, compared with a $16m profit a year earlier. Mikhail Stiskin, analyst at Russian investment bank Troika Dialog, said: It’s a great deal for both companies. Highland was lacking the funds and, most important, [...]

Gold Price Soars, Then Slides

By Kishori Krishnan Exclusive to Gold Investing News Gold jumped to its highest in Asia in almost four weeks on Monday as fears of a global flu pandemic prompted investors to seek safer assets. By Tuesday however, gold slipped below $900 for the first time since Thursday. It jumped to its highest since early April [...]