TORONTO, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 08/03/11 — Verde Potash (TSX VENTURE: NPK) ("Verde" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the Company has received an independent resource estimate for the Cerrado Verde Potash Project located in Minas Gerais State, Brazil ("Cerrado Verde"). The estimate comprises an indicated resource of 74 million tonnes of K2O with an average grade of 9.22% K2O and an inferred resource of 1.07 billion tonnes of K2O with an average gr
MONTREAL, QUEBEC — (Marketwire) — 08/03/11 — Norhcore Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE: NCR) is pleased to announce that it has signed a Letter of Intent ("LOI") to enter into a 50% interest purchase and joint venture agreement with Vanstar Mining Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE: VSR) regarding 20 cells covering an area of 1,100 hectares comprising the Little Monster property ("Little Monster") located in Chibougamau, Quebec. The LOI is subject to the signature of a Joint Venture
TORONTO, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 08/03/11 — CHAMPION MINERALS INC. (TSX: CHM)(FRANKFURT: P02) ("Champion", or the "Company") is pleased to announce assay results recently received for diamond-drill holes completed at the Fire Lake North Project. Highlights of assay results from nineteen new holes are detailed in Table 1, including eight holes drilled in the proposed East Pit area ("East Area"), five holes drilled in the proposed West Pit area ("West Area&
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 08/03/11 — Silvercorp Metals Inc. (TSX: SVM)(NYSE: SVM) ("Silvercorp" or the "Company") today reported its unaudited financial and operating results for the first quarter ended June 30, 2011 ("Q1 2012"). Record silver production, coupled with increasing silver prices, resulted in record quarterly sales. The following financial results are expressed in US dollars (US$) unless stated otherwise.FIRST QUARTER HIGHLIGHTSF
TORONTO, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 08/03/11 — Conquest Resources Limited (TSX VENTURE: CQR) reports that the Company has intersected a new shear zone containing significant sulphide mineralization in the ongoing 2011 Exploration Drilling Program at the Company-s 100% owned Alexander Gold Project in Red Lake, Ontario.The new showing was found in hole CR-11-048 located near the southern property boundary approximately 750 metres to the southeast of the central Sulphide Shear Zone which Conques
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 08/03/11 — Pilot Gold Inc. (TSX: PLG) ("Pilot Gold" or the "Company") is pleased to report a new gold discovery at its 100% owned Brik Project in southeast Nevada. The first holes drilled on the Hidden Treasure Target have intersected wide intervals of near surface oxide gold mineralization from a sub-horizontal zone that remains open in all directions.Highlights from the Hidden Treasure target area include:Intervals were calc
TORONTO, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 08/03/11 — INV Metals Inc. ("INV Metals" or the "Company") (TSX: INV) announced that it has filed a Technical Report entitled "Technical Report on the Okohongo Copper-Silver Property in Northwest Namibia" ("Technical Report") with Canadian securities regulators, pursuant to the Company-s news release dated June 22, 2011.The initial inferred resource estimate at the Okohongo deposit totals 10.2 million tonnes grading 1
CALGARY, ALBERTA — (Marketwire) — 08/03/11 — ALL AMOUNTS ARE STATED IN U.S.$Agrium Inc. (TSX: AGU) (NYSE: AGU) announced today record consolidated net earnings ("net earnings") of $718-million ($4.54 diluted earnings per share) for the second quarter of 2011, compared with net earnings of $518-million in the second quarter of 2010 ($3.28 diluted earnings per share). Net earnings from continuing operations, which exclude earnings associated with the AWB Limited ("AWB") Com
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 08/03/11 — Timmins Gold Corp. (TSX: TMM) ("Timmins Gold") is pleased to announce the appointment of Paula Rogers, CA as a member of our Board of Directors, and the Chair of the audit committee, effective immediately.Ms. Rogers is a Chartered Accountant and brings over 15 years experience working for Canadian-based international public companies in the areas of treasury operations, tax planning and compliance, mergers and acquisitions an
SUGAR LAND, TX — (Marketwire) — 08/03/11 — Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) — The of the United States has improved significantly this year in regard to both project numbers and total spending. While spending across the industry looks promising, the CPI companies with plant locations along the are posting some of the most impressive results, especially for planned expansions and major additions.Some of the largest projects planned to begin construction in the Gu
