NDEP Issues Water Pollution Control Permit for GBG's Hollister Project.
VANCOUVER, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Great Basin Gold Ltd, ("Great Basin" or the "Company"), (TSX: GBG; NYSE Alternext: GBG; JSE: GBG) announces that the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection/Bureau of Mining Regulation and Reclamation (NDEP) recently issued one of the key permits needed for a full-scale underground mining operation...

U.S. Government approves Active Control's wireless mesh communication & tracking system for mining.
TSX-V: ACT MSHA grants approval for ActiveMine(TM) Wi-Fi mesh network for installation in all U.S. underground mines TORONTO, Feb. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Active Control Technology Inc. (TSX-V:ACT) announced today that the U.S. Federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has approved its ActiveMine(TM) wireless Wi-Fi...

Active Control sells ActiveMine(TM) system to Wyoming open pit coal mine.
ACT teams up with MeshDynamics to extend ActiveMine to surface mining TSX-V: ACT TORONTO, Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Active Control Technology Inc. (TSX-V:ACT) and MeshDynamics Inc. today announced the sale of an ActiveMine system to a Wyoming open pit coal mine - the companies' first...

GoldSpring Announces 140 Foot Gold Interval Grading 0.242 Ounces Per Ton at its Hartford / Lucerne Deposit, Comstock District, Nevada.
GOLD HILL, Nev., Feb. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- GoldSpring, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: GSPG) is pleased to announce the assay results from drill hole RC-101 from the Hartford / Lucerne deposit in the Comstock District of Nevada. Drill hole RC-101 contains a 345 foot interval grading 0.119 ounces per ton...

First Uranium reports financial and operating results for third quarter ended December 31, 2008.
All amounts are in US dollars unless otherwise noted. For a full discussion of financial and operating results, the Financial Statements and Management Discussion & Analysis, please see the Company's website, www.firsturanium.com under "Investor Centre / Interim Reports" TORONTO and JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --...

Kimber announces grant of options.
VANCOUVER, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Kimber Resources Inc. (NYSE Alternext:KBX, TSX:KBR) announces that the Company has granted 945,000 options to directors and officers, 340,000 options to staff and 85,000 options to certain consultants of the Company at an exercise price of C$0.65, the closing price on the TSX on...

International Royalty update: Voisey's Bay resolution and resumption of shipments.
NYSE-A:ROY TSX:IRC DENVER, CO, Jan. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- International Royalty Corporation (TSX: IRC, NYSE-A: ROY) ("IRC") reports on developments affecting operations at the Voisey's Bay mine. IRC owns an effective 2.7% NSR royalty on the Voisey's Bay mine. On January 30, 2009, The Globe and...

PA DEP Issues Permit to Amfire Mining to Develop Underground Coal Mine in Cambria County.
Mine to Access Nearly 3,000 Acres of Coal Reserves HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection today issued a permit to Amfire Mining Co. to open a new underground coal mine in Cresson Township, Cambria County. The permit authorizes Amfire...

A brief history of early: silver mining in Spanish America.
For three centuries, Imperial Spain mined enormous quantities of metallic ore from its American domains, particularly from the huge silver deposits of Mexico and Peru. Spanish silver mining remade the economy of the Old World and did much to create that of the New; it furthered a healthy growth...

Urban mining: cell phone recycling gets serious.
Mining gold used to mean sifting through pans of water and muck to find precious nuggets. That evolved to crawling through dark passages deep within the Earth. The newest gold mine has plastic, a circuit board and the digits of that girl you met at the bar last night....