VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 01/22/13 — Imperial Metals Corporation (TSX: III) reports its annual base and precious metals production from Mount Polley and Huckleberry(1) mines exceeded the 2012 forecast. Copper production of 51.3 million pounds exceeded the forecast by 2%, gold production of 53,525 ounces exceeded the forecast by 11.4% and silver production was 31.7% above the forecast totalling 211,995 ounces.Base and precious metals production(1)(2) allocable to Imperial
TORONTO, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 01/22/13 — Pitchblack Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: PIT) is seeking expressions of interest for the potential joint venture or acquisition of its Division Mountain Coal Project, located in the Yukon Territory, Canada.The Project consists of a high-quality bituminous coal deposit with low sulphur content, with a NI 43-101-compliant mineral resource estimate of approximately 52 million tonnes located in Yukon, Canada (see the technical report entitled "Te
TORONTO, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 01/22/13 — High River Gold Mines Ltd. (TSX: HRG) ("High River" or the "Company") announces its production results for the fourth quarter ending December 31, 2012.HighlightsGold production for the fourth quarter is expected to increase over Q4 2011 by approximately 2% to 95.0 thousand gold equivalent ounces ("koz") (93.1 koz in Q4 2011). The average realized gold price during the quarter was US$1,711 per ounce.While the Berezito
TORONTO, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 01/22/13 — Lundin Mining Corporation (TSX: LUN)(OMX: LUMI) ("Lundin Mining" or the "Company") reports the following production results for the fourth quarter and full year 2012:Paul Conibear, President and CEO commented, "We are pleased to achieve the high-end of our production guidance targets for 2012 at each of our operations. Zinkgruvan had a particularly successful year with new records set for production of zinc, lead and cop
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 01/22/13 — Kimber Resources Inc. (TSX: KBR)(NYSE MKT: KBX) announced today that it has filed a preliminary short form base shelf prospectus ("Prospectus") with the securities regulatory authorities in each of the provinces and territories of Canada other than the province of Quebec, and a Form F-3 registration statement ("Registration Statement") with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Kimber is currently a
MONTREAL, QUEBEC — (Marketwire) — 01/22/13 — Rio Moche Exploration Inc. a private mining company now continued in Canada and operating out of Montreal (formerly Trinity Mining Holding A.G. a Swiss company listed on the Frankfurt Exchange) is pleased to announce that it has closed on January 18, 2013 a $ 2,000,000 private placement with GoldCorp Inc. of Vancouver. Goldcorp has subscribed to 8,000,000 common shares of Rio Moche at a price of CDN $0.25 per share, representing 15.6% of Rio Moch
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 01/22/13 — GEONOVUS MINERALS CORP. (TSX VENTURE: GNM) ("GeoNovus" or the "Company") is pleased to provide a drilling update at the Company-s Silver Bell West porphyry copper property in south central Arizona. The first drill hole has encountered hydrothermally altered granite and chalcopyrite-molybdenite-pyrite mineralization continuously to its present depth of 309 meters (1014 ft.), including an average of 2.1% by volume tot
CALGARY, ALBERTA — (Marketwire) — 01/22/13 — As first disclosed in 2009, and on September 29, 2011, October 27, 2011, and in a number of subsequent news releases, the Company commissioned SRK Consulting of Lakewood, Colorado ("SRK") to prepare a Preliminary Economic Assessment ("PEA") in respect of the Company-s Rossland, British Columbia magnesium property (the "Record Ridge South Property"). Completion of the PEA has required the completion of extensive metal
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA and JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — (Marketwire) — 01/22/13 — Platinum Group Metals Ltd. (TSX: PTM)(NYSE MKT: PLG) ("Platinum Group" or the "Company") reports that the South African Department of Mineral Resources has granted a 1,600 hectare (16 square kilometer) expansion of the prospecting permit covering the Waterberg discovery on the North Limb of the Bushveld Complex allowing anticipated drilling on the up dip portion of the Waterberg deposi
MONTREAL, QUEBEC — (Marketwire) — 01/22/13 — Northcore Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE: NCR) (the "Corporation") announces that it has terminated effective January 17, 2013, a service contract with 4552083 Canada Inc., a company that employed Francois C. Desrosiers as a contract service provider. That Corporation was hired to perform Investor Relations and general management services.The contract has been terminated at the request of the TSX-Venture Exchange while it performs a Suitab