VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 09/21/12 — First Point Minerals Corp. (TSX VENTURE: FPX) ("First Point" or the "Company") is pleased to report on the 2012 drilling progress at the Decar nickel alloy project in central British Columbia. The Decar project is in the Preliminary Economic Assessment ("PEA") phase, and is managed and operated by Cliffs Natural Resources Exploration Canada Inc., an affiliate of Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE: CLF)(PA
SUGAR LAND, TX — (Marketwire) — 09/21/12 — Commodity prices have dropped off highs reached in 2011. Reports continue to stack up regarding Chinese reduction in demand and production for mined resources such as iron ore and coal. The mining boom in Australia has slowed and some of the big mining companies like Rio Tinto (NYSE:RIO), BHP (NYSE:BHP) and Fortescue Metals Group (ASX:FMG) have announced reduction in capital expenditures as a result.This is coming at a time when construction activit
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — (Marketwire) — 09/21/12 — An unprotected strike at AngloGold Ashanti-s (NYSE: AU) Kopanang operations prevented the night shift from taking place on September 20, 2012. The strike is currently confined to this single mine. Management-s priority is to maintain safety, peace and stability at the site and to continue a constructive dialogue with all employees, their representatives and other stakeholders. The company is following the necessary procedures and an updat
LUXEMBOURG, LUXEMBOURG — (Marketwire) — 09/21/12 — Northland Resources S.A. (TSX: NAU)(OSLO: NAUR)(FRANKFURT: NPK) – ("Northland" or the "Company") will publish the September edition of its bi-monthly operation update on September 25 instead of September 24.The reason for this is that Northland wants the operational update to be as informative as possible and therefore also include all matters discussed at the Capital Markets Day in London on September 25. The event is o
HOUSTON, TX — (Marketwire) — 09/20/12 — Intergraph CADWorx & Analysis University 2012 (CAU2012), to be held September 24-25, 2012 in Houston, has sold out conference capacity with 302 attendees and a record 178 paid registrations including 27 domestic and international dealers. CAU2012 is a global user-oriented plant design and engineering conference providing 42 educational sessions for users of Intergraph CADWorx, CAESAR II®, and PV Elite®, including demonstrations, user presen
SAN MARCOS, TX — (Marketwire) — 09/20/12 — Thermon Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: THR) (the "Company") announced today the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 10,000,000 shares of common stock offered by certain of its existing stockholders at a price to the public of $22.00 per share. The offering was upsized from the previously announced offering size of 8,000,000 shares. In addition, the underwriters have a 30-day option to purchase up to 1,500,000 additional shares from
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 09/20/12 — Methanex Corporation (TSX: MX)(NASDAQ: MEOH)(SANTIAGO: Methanex) will be hosting an Investor Conference on September 27, 2012 in Medicine Hat, Alberta. The event will commence at 3:00 p.m. ET (1:00 p.m. MT) and end at approximately 6:00 p.m. ET (4:00 p.m. MT).Interested participants can access a live webcast of the presentation through the Company-s website at . In addition, the webcast will also be available on our website for three w
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 09/20/12 — Decade Resources Ltd. ("Decade") (TSX VENTURE: DEC) and Mountain Boy Minerals Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: MTB) ("Mountain Boy") report that drilling is continuing on the Red Cliff project in Northwestern British Columbia. The joint venture project is owned 65% by Decade and 35% by Mountain Boy. The Red Cliff is a gold/copper property consisting of 8 Crown Granted mineral claims located 25 miles north of the town of Stewart,
TORONTO, CANADA — (Marketwire) — 09/20/12 — Inmet Mining Corporation (TSX: IMN) today reiterated its intention to make an offer (the "Offer") to acquire all of the outstanding common shares of Petaquilla Minerals Limited (Petaquilla Minerals) as announced on September 5, 2012.Inmet notes that in an announcement yesterday Petaquilla Minerals indicated it is proceeding with a proposed offering on a private placement basis of US$210 million aggregate principal amount of senior secure
TORONTO, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 09/20/12 — Strike Minerals Inc. (TSX VENTURE: STK) ("Strike" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it will offer on a best efforts basis a non-brokered private placement of up to $500,000 in common share units and flow through units (the "Units Offering").Strike will offer a combination of up to 3,500,000 Flow-Through Units ("FT Units") at a price of $0.10 per FT Unit and up to 2,142,860 common share units (&q
