News - Placer Dome Inc.
Amera Resources Corporation (TSX VENTURE: AMS)(OTCBB: AJRSF)(FRANKFURT: OAY)(WKNA0B54E) (The "Company") is pleased to announce that a 2,500 metre diamond drill program is underway on the Laguna Gold Project, situated in the prolific Cerro de Pasco District, west-central Peru.
Sheffield Resources Ltd. ("Sheffield") (TSX Venture:SLD) (FWB:S2Q) continues its core drilling program designed to confirm the structural and ore control parameters at its Moonlight Project in Plumas County, California, and reports copper analyses of its fifth "HQ" diamond drill hole.
By Erin Nicholes, The Montana Standard, Butte Jan. 4--The Canada-based Barrick Gold Corp. has struck an agreement to buy Placer Dome Inc., which owns the Golden Sunlight Mine near Whitehall, for $10.4 billion.