VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 05/16/12 — El Tigre Silver Corp. (the "Company" or "El Tigre") (TSX VENTURE: ELS)(OTCQX: EGRTF)(FRANKFURT: 5RT) is pleased to provide a progress report along with the first assays from the ongoing Gold Hill core drilling program at its 100% owned El Tigre silver project in Sonora, Mexico.The core drilling program commenced on March 20, 2012 with 8 holes now completed for 1702 meters. The Company is experiencing good core recov
CALGARY, ALBERTA — (Marketwire) — 05/16/12 — Agrium Inc. (TSX: AGU) (NYSE: AGU) announced today it is hosting an investor conference in Chicago (Rosemont), Illinois the morning of June 13th, 2012 with an associated tour of an Agrium Retail Farm Center in the afternoon. Management will be hosting a dinner the evening prior (June 12th) with a guest speaker from the Chicago Board of Trade.Presentations will take place on the morning of June 13th and include an introduction and overview by Mike
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 05/16/12 — Arco Resources Corp. (TSX VENTURE: ARR) ("Arco" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that Micon International Ltd. ("Micon") has completed an independent technical report under National Instrument 43-101 that includes a mineral resource estimate on the Company-s 100%-owned Taviche property located near Oaxaca City, Mexico. The Inferred Mineral Resource estimate is 160,000 tonnes grading 197.8 g/t Silve
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TORONTO, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 05/16/12 — CGI Group Inc. (TSX: GIB.A)(NYSE: GIB), a leading provider of information technology and business processing services and RSA Canada, one of Canada-s leading home, auto and business insurers, has renewed a 6-year agreement worth $80 million for IT infrastructure services.This agreement will see CGI provide infrastructure management services including mainframe and mid-range equipment, and data storage and recovery for RSA-s broker and customer pro
ST. JOHN-S, NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR — (Marketwire) — 05/16/12 — Altius Minerals Corporation ("Altius") (TSX: ALS) has entered into an automatic share purchase plan agreement (the "Plan") with a broker in connection with its normal course issuer bid ("NCIB") previously announced on March 29, 2012 to facilitate purchases of Altius- common shares ("Shares") under the NCIB. Altius has also filed with the Toronto Stock Exchange ("TSX") an amend
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 05/16/12 — San Marco Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE: SMN) has completed its non-brokered private placement announced March 30, 2012 by selling 2,754,001 units at $0.15 per unit for gross proceeds of $413,100.Each unit consisted of one common share and one-half of a non-transferable warrant, each whole warrant exercisable to purchase a further share for 18 months at $0.30. After the four month restricted resale period expires, the expiry of the warra
RENO, NEVADA — (Marketwire) — 05/16/12 — Allied Nevada Gold Corp. ("Allied Nevada" or the "Company") (TSX: ANV)(NYSE Amex: ANV) announced today an offering of 8.75% senior unsecured notes due 2019 in an aggregate principal amount of C$400 million (the "Notes"). In connection with the offering, the Company will enter into a cross currency interest rate swap and thereby the notes will have an effective principal amount of US$400.4 million and an effective interes
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM and TORONTO, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 05/16/12 — Minera IRL Limited ("Minera IRL" or the "Company") (TSX: IRL)(AIM: MIRL)(BVLAC: MIRL), the Latin America gold mining company, is pleased to announce commencement of the permitting process for the Don Nicolas Project located in the mining friendly Santa Cruz Province, Argentina.Highlights:"The completion of the EIA and commencement of permitting marks another significant milestone in the developm
SARASOTA, FL — (Marketwire) — 05/15/12 — Global Technologies Group, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: GTGP) presents summary report dated today for the last series of Mercury emissions testing completed by MSE Technology Applications, Inc., which was conducted to determine if any acid gases, NOX or SOX will be generated using MBS with compressed air in the test system and update on MSE Acquisition.The same mercury test apparatus was used to run tests that will determine if a mercury laden gas stream that f
