TORONTO, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 10/03/11 — (all figures in US dollars)Minera Andes Inc. (the "Company" or "Minera Andes") (TSX: MAI)(OTCBB: MNEAF) is pleased to announce that the Company-s 49% owned joint venture and operator of the San Jose mine, has repaid the entire outstanding principal and accrued interest on the shareholder and project finance loans. Minera Andes received net proceeds of approximately $29 million from this repayment. In addition, the project finan
TORONTO, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 10/03/11 — Labrador Iron Mines Holdings Limited (TSX: LIM) is pleased to announce that the first shipment of LIM iron ore sailed today bound for China.The Salt Lake City departed the Port of Sept-Iles at 4.50am EDT today carrying a total of 167,167 wet tonnes of iron ore.This ore was sold to the Iron Ore Company of Canada ("IOC") under the arrangements LIM has entered into with IOC for the sale and shipping of all of LIM-s calendar 2011 iron ore p
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 10/03/11 — Fox Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: FAX) is pleased to announce that in conjunction with the acquisition of a 100% interest in Big Sky Operating LLC. ("Big Sky") (the "Acquisition"), as previously announced on August 3, 2011, the Company completed a $9,000,000 non-brokered private placement (the "Financing") of subscription receipts (the "Subscription Receipts") at a price of $0.35 per Subscription
SASKATOON, SASKATCHEWAN — (Marketwire) — 10/03/11 — ALL AMOUNTS ARE STATED IN CDN $ (UNLESS NOTED)Cameco (TSX: CCO) (NYSE: CCJ) will issue its third quarter results before markets open on Monday, November 7, 2011.Cameco invites investors and the media to join its third quarter conference call with the company-s senior executives on Monday, November 7, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern.Cameco will discuss the financial results and company developments before opening the call to questions from invest
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 10/03/11 — Fancamp Exploration Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: FNC) is pleased to report a substantial increase in the iron resource on the Fire Lake North property, one of seventeen in the ongoing Champion Mineral Inc./Fancamp joint venture in the Fermont Iron District of Quebec. The Company holds a 17 1/2% working interest in the joint venture.The publication, in Q4 2010, of a preliminary economic assessment on the Fire Lake North Property which indicated a
MONTREAL, QUEBEC — (Marketwire) — 10/03/11 — Cancor Mines (CNSX: KCR) is pleased to announce that it has received proceeds of $1,301,800 from the exercise of 8,678,663 warrants issued pursuant to a private placement offering that closed in March and May 2010. The warrants were exercisable at $0.15 per share and expired on September 30, 2011. The Company has issued 8,678,663 common shares in exchange for the exercised warrants which represent 85% of the total number of warrants issued pursua
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 10/03/11 — Harmony Gold Corp. (the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: H) is pleased to announce it has entered into a formal purchase agreement with Fernand Valliquette to acquire a 100% undivided interest in the Foubert Lake Property ("the Property"). The Foubert Lake Property consists of 20 claims for a total of 1010.93 hectares, located in the Carheil Township, approximately 230 km North-West of Val-d-Or, Quebec.Harmony can acquire 1
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 10/03/11 — Bravada Gold Corporation (TSX VENTURE: BVA)(FRANKFURT: BRT) ("the Company") reported today that assays from ten additional reverse-circulation holes of its current 50-hole program continue to extend shallow oxide mineralization at the company-s Wind Mountain project in Nevada and that further encouragement has been noted in several in-fill holes. Bravada also confirmed that a new resource calculation and PEA is on schedule fo
TORONTO, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 10/03/11 — Russel Metals Inc. (TSX: RUS)The Company-s results for the 2011 third quarter will be issued by press release on Thursday, November 3, 2011.An Investor Conference Call will be hosted by Brian R. Hedges, President and Chief Executive Officer and Marion E. Britton, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer on Friday, November 4, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. ET to review the results.The dial-in telephone numbers for the call are 416-340-8530 (Toronto and Inte
SURREY, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 10/03/11 — Zinco Mining Corporation (TSX VENTURE: ZIM) (FRANKFURT: 61Z) has acquired 100% of mining concessions San Antonio Fraccion II (T. 219743) and San Antonio 2 Fracc 1 (T. 219744) from Antonio Briseno Guerra for $100,000 (U.S.) and 250,000 common shares of the Company. Together, these newly acquired concessions overlap an area of 68.6 hectares centred on Cerro La Descubriadora, a prominent mountain that defines the eastern part of the Cuale VM