Montreal (ots/PRNewswire) - Alcan Inc. (NYSE: AL , TSX: AL) and The Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) announced today the short list of candidates for the US$1 million Alcan Prize for Sustainability. Ten organizations, chosen from entries received from 59 countries, made the short list of candidates being considered for the Alcan Prize. The formal announcement of the short list will be made ...
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - Alcan Inc. (NYSE, TSX: AL) announced today that it has sold Alcan Print Finishers Ltd., the U.K. decorative print finishing company, to Celloglas Holdings Limited. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. "Our packaging business is moving strategically to focus greater resources on the markets where we already enjoy substantial scale and leadership positions and where we believe the ...
Thunder Bay, Ontario (ots/PRNewswire) - - Shares Issued: 36,524,244 Sabina Resources Limited (SBB:TSX-V) is pleased to announce an update from its 60%-owned Follansbee Joint Venture Project (40% Wolfden Resources Inc. (WLF:TSX)). The Follansbee Property hosts significant gold mineralization in the Red ...
Carmagnola, Italy (ots/PRNewswire) - - TK Aluminum Ltd Delivers 28.6% Improved Earnings on 11.7% Higher Revenues TK Aluminum Ltd., the indirect parent of Teksid Aluminum Luxembourg S.à.r.l., SCA, today reported its consolidated financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2005 and for the ...
Toronto, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - - Shares Issued: 36,524,244 Sabina Resources Limited (TSX-V: SBB) is pleased to announce that Wardrop Engineering Inc., has delivered an independent mineral resource estimate on Sabina's 100% owned Hackett River Project, Nunavut in compliance with National Instrument ...
Vancouver, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - Ross River Minerals Inc. (TSX-V: RRM) (the "Company") is pleased to announce results from its Induced Polarity (IP) and magnetometric geophysical surveys over new grid lines east and west of known porphyry copper mineralization. A total of 73.04 line-kilometres of IP and magnetometer surveys were carried out, including 56.16 line-kilometres east and 16.88 line-kilometres west ...
Vancouver, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - Ross River Minerals Inc. (TSX-V: RRM) (the "Company") has received analyses of 34 lithogeochemical samples from the Cetolla area. Copper analyses ranged from 44.30 ppm Cu to greater than 10,000 ppm Cu (approximately 1%). Four samples exceeded the detection limit of 10,000 ppm Cu. Molybdenum analytical results ranged from 1.07 ppm Mo to 1,902.64 ppm Mo. Silver analyses ranged from ...
Vancouver, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - Ross River Minerals Inc. (TSX-V: RRM) (the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has received results for 1,084 lithogeochemical samples from the El Pulpo Project in Sinaloa, Mexico. Sampling and mapping was conducted between March and June 2005 in the area between the Langosta and Cerro Colorado copper porphyry prospects and eastward into a little-explored area named Minitas ...
Chicago (ots/PRNewswire) - Alcan (NYSE: AL, TSX: AL) received three prestigious awards at the 18th Annual DuPont Flexible Packaging Innovation ceremony, held on August 5, 2005 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for its pharmaceutical and food packaging solutions. Alcan's Global Pharmaceutical Packaging business won a Silver Award for the Autopak(R) Sterilization 3-ply pouch, serving the institutional medical market and a ...
Thunder Bay, Ontario (ots/PRNewswire) - - Shares Issued: 36,524,244 Sabina Resources Limited (TSX-V:SBB) is pleased to announce that surface sampling and diamond drilling results to date show consistent gold assay results and continue to intersect significant gold grades in several sub-parallel zones ...
The National Capital Commission
Ottawa, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - The National Capital Commission (NCC) today announced that the Rideau Canal Skateway has officially been designated the Guinness World Record holder for the largest naturally frozen ice rink. Mr. Marcel Beaudry, Chairman of the NCC, along with Mr. Stewart Newport of Guinness ...
Aurora, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - Magna International Inc. (TSX: MG.SV.A, MG.MV.B; NYSE: MGA) will release its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2005 on Wednesday, August 10, 2005 before the opening of the TSX and NYSE markets. Magna's quarterly conference call to discuss second quarter 2005 results will be held Wednesday, August 10, 2005 ...
Vancouver, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - Romarco Minerals Inc. ("TSXV: R" - the "Company") is pleased to announce that core drilling is well underway on the first drill hole of its 2005 drilling program at Buckskin-National. As of July 16, the first hole, BN-18, is at a depth of 1257 feet (383 m). Anticipated depth to the target at -45 degrees is approximately 1350 to 1400 feet (415 m (+/-) ). BN-18 targets one of the ...
Vancouver, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - Ross River Minerals Inc. (TSX-V: RRM) (the "Company") and its wholly owned subsidiary Minera Rio Ross S.A. de C.V. ("Rio Ross") are pleased to announce that they have completed the acquisition of the El Pulpo project from Almaden Minerals Ltd. ("Almaden") and its wholly owned subsidiary Minera Gavilan S.A de C.V. ("Minera Gavilan"). The Company has issued 2.2 million shares to ...
Thunder Bay, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - - Shares Issued: 36,524,244 Sabina Resources Limited (TSX-V: SBB; 60%) as Operator, together with its joint venture partner Wolfden Resources Inc. (TSX: WLF; 40%), is pleased to present assays from recent drilling on the South Contact Zone on the Follansbee Property ...
Vancouver, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - StrataGold Corporation (SGV-TSX) has received results of further diamond drilling and exploration work completed at Tassawini in the Tassawini West Zone. To date, 13 diamond drill holes totaling 2,098 metres have been completed at Tassawini West and to date assays for the first three holes have been received. Hole SD003 ...
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Vancouver, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - Mawson Resources Limited ("Mawson") TSXv - MAW. Mr Michael Hudson, President, is pleased to announce results from a Phase 2 drilling program at the Vargbacken project, Sweden. A total of 9 reverse circulation ("RC") holes for 1024m were drilled. The results are presented in the attached tables 1 and 2. Best RC drill ...
Romarco Minerals Inc., Western Goldfields, Inc. and U.S. Gold Corporation
Vancouver (ots/PRNewswire) - ROMARCO MINERALS INC. ("TSXV: R"), WESTERN GOLDFIELDS, INC. ("OTCBB: WGDF"), and U.S. GOLD CORPORATION ("OTCBB: USGL") are pleased to announce that they have entered into a binding agreement to combine the companies and create an emerging, intermediate gold producer with a strong pipeline of exploration projects. The agreements are ...
Thunder Bay, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - - Shares Issued: 36,524,244 Sabina Resources Limited (TSX-V: SBB; 60%) as Operator, together with its joint venture partner Wolfden Resources Inc. (TSX: WLF; 40%), is pleased to present assays from recent follow-up drilling on the South Contact Zone on the Follansbee Property at Red Lake, Ontario. These complement ...
Thunder Bay, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - - Shares Issued: 36,524,244 Sabina Resources Limited (Berlin: RXC, Frankfurt: RXC, TSX-V: SBB) is pleased to present assays from recent 2005 drilling at its 100%-owned Hackett River Property, Nunavut. Sabina is presently engaged in the second phase of a CDN$12 Million exploration campaign at Hackett River. The 2005 ...
Vancouver, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - Ross River Minerals Inc. (TSX-V: RRM) (the "Company") is pleased to announce that copper porphyry style mineralization discovered at Minitas (see press release dated April 25, 2005) has now been extended by geological mapping, prospecting and Induced Polarization (I.P.) geophysics to cover a northwest to southeast trending area that is at least 2,500 metres in length by 950 metres ...
Vancouver, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - Mawson Resources Limited ("Mawson") TSXv-MAW; Frankfurt-MRY. Mr Michael Hudson, President, is pleased to announce that the Phase 2 reverse circulation ("RC") drill program commenced today at the Vargbacken prospect in Northern Sweden. The program consists of 11 holes for 1,300m with the aim to extend and infill the higher grade mineralized block previously defined in the Phase 1 drill program. On completion of the Phase 2 program at ...
Vancouver, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - StrataGold Corporation (TSX: SGV) is pleased to announce that its common shares have been approved for listing and will begin trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) effective April 28, 2005. StrataGold Corporation will continue to trade under the stock symbol "SGV." Concurrent with graduation to the TSX, StrataGold's common shares will no longer trade on the TSX Venture ...
Vancouver, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - Ross River Minerals Inc. (TSX-V: RRM) (the "Company") is pleased to report that while investigating a high-grade copper vein occurrence two kilometres southeast of its Cerro Colorado copper-gold porphyry target on Ross River's El Pulpo property, geologists have discovered new porphyry- style copper mineralization occurring in deep arroyos cutting through a potassicaly altered phase of intrusive rock of the Sinaloa batholith. The ...
Vancouver, British Columbia (ots/PRNewswire) - TSX Venture Exchange - FR Pink Sheets - FMJRF Frankfurt - 905910 First Majestic Resource Corp ("First Majestic" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the discovery of what is interpreted to be a third ore shoot (Ore Shoot No. 3) during its first stage development and exploration program at the La Parrilla Silver Mine in Durango, Mexico. The discovery was ...
La Paz, Bolivia (ots/PRNewswire) - Internet casino GoldenPalace.com has come forward as the generous bidder who recently paid US$650,000 in an auction hosted by http://www.charityfolks.com for the right to name the new species of monkey discovered in western Bolivia's Madidi National Park by Dr. Robert Wallace of the Wildlife Conservation Society. (Photo: ...
Vancouver, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - First Majestic Resource Corp. (the "Company") is pleased to announce a brokered private placement offering of 6.0 million units ("Units") of the Company at a price of CDN$2.50 per Unit (the "Offering"). Each Unit will consist of one common share (a "Unit Share") and one-half of one common share purchase warrant (a "Warrant"), with a full Warrant entitling the holder to purchase ...
Fehraltorf (ots) - BKW, one of the leading electric utilities in Switzerland, and Enermet, have signed contracts for the supply of household as well as commercial/industrial meters plus Ripple Control Receivers supporting BKW's load management efforts. "The contract award in this international tender in favor of Enermet is the result of continuous portfolio ...
New York (ots/PRNewswire) - - Exclusive Interview to Air on BLOOMBERG TV Tomorrow, Saturday, March 19 In a U.S. exclusive interview on BLOOMBERG TELEVISION(R), James Owens, Chief Executive Officer of Caterpillar Inc., stated that he expects a strong year in 2005 with profits likely rising about 25 percent. Mr. Owens also told BLOOMBERG TELEVISION that higher energy prices will help to spur new investment for ...