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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
HIV/AIDS awareness messages targeted at the gold mining communities of Nyatike in Kenya's Migori district are having little impact, Tom Rakewa, Migori district's HIV/AIDS officer, said recently, IRIN/PlusNews reports. Many women and girls turn to commercial sex work to make money from miners, sometimes offering sex for as little as $1, according to IRIN/PlusNews.
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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Arriving in Bodie is rather eerie even though we were not the first tourists we were still early enough for it to be quiet. Driving down the dirt road that leads to the deserted mining town you first pass the cemetry on your left and then you see what is left of the once sprawling town on the right. Perched high up on the hill is the mill and mine looming over the houses. We parked and set off
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Market Wire - Manufacturing and Production: Mining and Metals (Free subscription) | yesterday
LA PRAIRIE, QUEBEC (MARKET WIRE) The management of Vantex Resources Ltd ("Vantex") is pleased to announce the acquisition of 19 mining claims directly adjacent to the Santa Anna gold property that was recently acquired by Vantex and announced in a press release dated March 18. The Santa Anna property is located 15 kilometres West of the town of La Sarre, in Abitibi, Quebec, in the La Reine township....
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International News (I.N. Daily) (Free subscription) | yesterday
Published on Monday, October 6, 2008 By Kevin Lindon Caribbean net News Guyana Correspondent Email: kevin@caribbeannetnews.com http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/article.php?news_id=11183 GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Shoreham Resources Ltd, a Canada-based exploration company dedicated to the exploration of advanced precious metal and polymetallic deposits in South America and Canada, has announced further developments...
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Market Wire - Management Changes (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
LAS VEGAS, NV (MARKET WIRE) G & S Minerals, Inc. dba Gold & Silver Minerals ("G&S," "the Company") (PINKSHEETS: GSML) (FRANKFURT: G9S), a mining company focused on developing high-quality and low-risk mineral resource and energy prospects, today announced several management changes made in connection with the scheduled closing of the milestone Strategic Cross Investment and Gold Field Development Agreement...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
DENVER, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ROYAL GOLD, INC. (Nasdaq:
RGLD; TSX: RGL), the leading precious metals royalty company, today
announced the closing of its acquisition of the royalty portfolio from
Barrick Gold Corporation ("Barrick"), effective October 1, 2008.
Consideration to Barrick for the transaction was approximately $150 million
net cash and a restructuring of Royal Gold's royalty positions...
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
BEIJING, CHINA (MARKET WIRE) Jinshan Gold Mines Inc. (TSX: JIN) announces that its subsidiary, Ningxia Pacific Mining Co. Ltd., has received proceeds of the Renminbi ("RMB") 130 million (US$19 million) bridge loan ("Bridge Loan") announced September 8, 2008, with the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China ("ICBC"), the largest commercial bank in China. The Bridge Loan is unsecured, requires no gold...
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
CELEBRATION, FL (MARKET WIRE) U.S. Precious Metals, Inc. (OTCBB: USPR) ("USPR") CEO and Chairman of the Board M. Jack Kugler released assay data for selected intervals in drill holes 8 and 9 today. Drill hole number 8 intersected 20 feet of 0.206 opt gold, 0.88 opt silver and 1.06% copper. Drill hole number 9 intersected 18 feet of 0.146 opt gold, 1.46 opt silver and 1.19% copper. The additional drill...
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
JUJUY, ARGENTINA (MARKET WIRE) Dr. Fabio Montanari, President and CEO of Soltera Mining Corp. (PINK SHEETS: SLTA)(FRANKFURT: SN7), is pleased to announce that the results of a structural geological survey at El Torno, Soltera's flagship gold property in Argentina, are now available.
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The Daily Reckoning Australia (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Yes, the prices of gold and silver rose on Monday. But gold mining shares declined along with all the other stocks. What was that all about'...
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Geostrategy (Free subscription) | yesterday
TORONTO-listed Nevsun's Bisha copper, gold and zinc mine now under construction in Eritrea and scheduled to start production in 2010 is going to break new ground in terms of private-public partnerships. This is because of the innovative agreement between Nevsun and the Eritrean National Mining Corporation (Enamco) over the funding of Bisha, which will be the first mine to be developed in the country....
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sydney - A survivor of the Australian gold mining disaster that gripped the world two years ago said Tuesday a musical running in Melbourne called Beaconsfield: A Musical in A-Flat Minor was disrespectful to a workmate who was crushed to death in the...
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The Offside Rules (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
With less than 4 days to go until another MLS side gets it's sweet little ass out of a faux-grassed enormodrome and into it's own appropriately sized, revenue-generating home. So it's Rio Tinto Stadium week with Real Salt Lake being the lucky ladies this time; they'll be walked down the isle by RBNY on MLS Primetime Thursday and it's going be wild times. Well, it'll be what passes for wild in Utah....
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EuroInvestor.co.uk (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
PARIS, October 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcan Global Pharmaceutical Packaging - a division of Alcan Packaging, a business unit of Rio Tinto Alcan - has acquired the Chakan flexible packaging plant from.. - Read more
