TORONTO, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 02/04/13 — First Nickel Inc. ("FNI", or the "Company") (TSX: FNI) today announced changes to the Board of Directors with the appointment of Joao Carrelo and the retirement of Thomas Pugsley effective February 1, 2013.Mr. Carrelo is a mining engineer and an MBA, having over 29 years international operational, project and management experience within the mining, metals, refining and fertilizer industries in Latin America, Europe, Africa an
TORONTO, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 02/04/13 — ABERDEEN INTERNATIONAL INC. ("Aberdeen" or the "Company") (TSX: AAB) is pleased to announce that it has converted convertible debentures in the principal amount of $1,000,000 plus $62,465 of interest into 21,249,315 common shares of Portex Minerals Inc. ("Portex"). As a result of the conversion, based on 64,984,300 common shares of Portex outstanding, Aberdeen holds 32.7% of the issued and outstanding common shares o
TORONTO, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 02/04/13 — Bold Ventures Inc. (TSX: BOL) ("Bold" or the "Company") announces that it has signed a letter agreement (the "Agreement") with KWG Resources Inc. ("KWG") to option its interests in the Koper Lake Project. Under the terms of the Agreement, Bold will act as Operator of the exploration programs which are to be funded by KWG. KWG will also make the option payments due under the agreement with Fancamp Exploratio
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 02/04/13 — La Ronge Gold Corp. (TSX VENTURE: LAR) -HIGHLIGHTSLa Ronge Gold Corp. (TSX VENTURE: LAR) (the "Company") is pleased to announce that assays have been received from the first two widely spaced step-out drill holes about 200 m outside the current block model at the Preview SW deposit located in north-central Saskatchewan:Drill hole PR13-144 intersected:Drill hole PR13-145 intersected:The primary objective of this drilling campa
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 02/04/13 — Precipitate Gold Corp. (the "Company" or "Precipitate") (TSX VENTURE: PRG) is pleased to announce remaining results from multi-phase reconnaissance surveys of its Juan de Herrera concession applications in the Dominican Republic-s Tireo Gold Trend.Precipitate-s first pass programs of sampling and mapping, conducted in late 2012, have refined and expanded two priority target areas, the Melchor and Ginger Ridge gold z
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 02/04/13 — Eagle Star Minerals Corp. (TSX VENTURE: EGE)(PINKSHEETS: ELGSF)(FRANKFURT: E6R) ("Eagle Star" or "the Company"), is pleased to announce it has oversubscribed and completed its non-brokered private placement of 6,000,000 units at a price of twenty cents per unit previously announced January 17th, 2013. Each unit comprises one common share and one-half share purchase warrant. Each full warrant entitles the holder to p
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA and JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — (Marketwire) — 02/04/13 — Platinum Group Metals Ltd. (TSX: PTM)(NYSE MKT: PLG) ("Platinum Group" or the "Company") announces that drilling along two section lines east and up-dip of the Waterberg Deposit have intersected mineralized layers that are interpreted by the Company-s project geologists and non-independent qualified person as the F layer.There are fifteen drill rigs operating on the property. Eight dri
TORONTO, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 02/04/13 — KWG Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE: KWG) announces that it has agreed to fund Bold Ventures Inc. ("Bold") as the Operator to drill off the Black Horse chromite discovery, commencing with an initial program starting as soon as the transaction with Bold closes. The intent of the program is to determine whether this chromite mineralization occurs in sufficient quantity and quality to demonstrate the feasibility of mining it and transporting i
ROUYN-NORANDA, QUEBEC — (Marketwire) — 02/04/13 — Chibougamau Independent Mines Inc. (TSX VENTURE: CBG) and GLOBEX MINING ENTERPRISES INC. (TSX: GMX)(FRANKFURT: G1M)(OTCQX: GLBXF) wish to inform shareholders that Chibougamau Independent Mines ("Chibougamau Mines") has received all necessary permits in order to begin drilling on the Berrigan gold, silver, zinc property located directly north of the town of Chibougamau, Quebec. Chibougamau Mines has also signed a drill contract and
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 02/04/13 — Geologix Explorations Inc. (FRANKFURT: GF6)(TSX: GIX)(BERLIN: GF6)(MUN: GF6)(STUT: GF6)(OTCQX: GIXEF) (the "Company" or "Geologix") is pleased to announce that recent prefeasibility study ("PFS") optimization metallurgical test work indicates the potential to increase overall gold recovery in the sulphide mill design by 16.4% and silver recoveries by 31.4% compared to the April 2011 Preliminary Assessment
