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TORONTO, March 7, 2013 /CNW/ - Royal Nickel Corporation ("RNC") (TSX: RNX) has closed a private placement of 4 million flow-through shares at a price of $0.50 per share for gross proceeds of $2 million. Marquest Capital Markets and Casimir Capital Ltd. acted as the agents for the placement. "By raising a targeted amount of capital through this flow-through financing we will be able to investigate the regional potential near Dumont and, most importantly, follow-up on a single...
TSX Venture Symbol: GWG CUSIP: 39141Y 10 3 OTCQX: GWMGF SASKATOON, March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Great Western Minerals Group Ltd. ("GWMG" or the "Company", TSX:V - GWG) is pleased to announce the promotion of Vic Fitzmaurice to the position of Steenkampskraal Managing Director with GWMG's wholly owned subsidiary, Rare Earth Extraction Co. Limited ("Rareco") of South Africa. Mr. Fitzmaurice's responsibilities include the refurbishment of the Steenkampskraal mine site as well...
SANTIAGO, Chile, Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Swingplane Ventures, Inc. (OTC-BB: SWVI) (the "Company" or "Swingplane") is pleased to update information pertaining to the Algarrobo property. Swingplane Ventures Inc.'s (the "Company") Algarrobo Property (the "Property") is an Iron Oxide -Copper-Gold (IOCG) property located approximately 850 km north of Santiago, in the III Region, Province of Copiapo, Chile. The city of Copiapo is located approximately 43 km to the southeast of the...
SANTIAGO, Chile, Feb. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Swingplane Ventures, Inc. (OTC-BB: SWVI) (the "Company" or "Swingplane") is pleased to update information pertaining to the Algarrobo property. Swingplane Ventures, Inc.'s (the "Company") Algarrobo Property (the "Property") is an Iron Oxide -Copper-Gold (IOCG) property located approximately 850 km north of Santiago, in the III Region, Province of Copiapo, Chile. The city of Copiapo is located approximately 43 km to the southeast of the...
The Turquoise coast in south west Turkey has been a popular area with tourists for many years and it is not hard to see why with its crystal, clear, turquoise waters. (PRWEB) February 19, 2013 Made famous for its beautiful coastline this area has stunning scenery and many picturesque places to visit. The Turquoise coast has a lot to offer: with fantastic nautical experiences, ancient Lycian ruins to explore, extreme sports to sample, mountain trails to wander and beautiful beaches to...
Eindhoven University of Technology Exactly how a crystal forms from solution is a problem that has occupied scientists for decades. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), together with researchers from Germany and the USA, are now presenting the missing piece. This classical theory of crystal formation, which occurs widely in nature and in the chemical industry, was under fire for some years, but is saved now. The team made this breakthrough by a detailed study of the...
VANCOUVER, Feb. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Gold Bullion Development Corp. (TSXV:GBB) (OTCPINK:GBBFF) (the "Company" or "Gold Bullion") is pleased to announce the results of a high definition mineralogy study and some scoping level flotation and gravity separation tests done at SGS Lakefield on samples from its Beaver Silver Property, located 15 kilometres east of the historic silver camp in Cobalt, Ontario. The Company's geological consultant hand cobbed 400 kilograms of...
TSX Venture Symbol: GWG CUSIP: 39141Y 10 3 OTCQX: GWMGF SASKATOON, Jan. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Great Western Minerals Group Ltd. ("GWMG" or the "Company", TSX:V - GWG) is pleased to provide an update on issues pertinent to the Company's progress and status. Preliminary Economic Assessment ("PEA"): GWMG had previously set January 2013 as a target date to issue a news release highlighting the results of a PEA as well as an updated National Instrument...
TSX:GPD WHITEHORSE, YT, Jan. 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Golden Predator Corp. (TSX: GPD) (the "Company") is pleased to announce the results of its early stage soil and rock chip sampling programs from 2011 and 2012 from the Rogue A, B and F properties located in the central Selwyn (Figure 1). On the Rogue B property, the Company has discovered an area of high-grade gold mineralization exposed over an area of approximately 1 km x 1 km that it is calling the Valley Gold area. The...
TZ Minerals International (TZMI) has released its latest data report on zircon, Issue 19 of Zircon Quarter to Quarter. (PRWEB) January 23, 2013 TZ Minerals International (TZMI) has released its latest data report on zircon, Issue 19 of Zircon Quarter to Quarter. To enable participants in the industry to keep their finger on the pulse of the industry TZMI produces Zircon Quarter to Quarter, a quarterly data report covering activity and developments in the zircon industry during the...
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Amphibole defines an important group of dark-colored rock-forming inosilicate minerals composed of double chain SiO4 tetrahedra linked at the vertices and generally containing ions of iron and/ or magnesium in their structures. In chemical composition and general characteristics they are very similar to the pyroxenes and, like them, fall into three series according to their system of crystallization. The chief difference between amphiboles and pyroxenes is in cleavage: amphiboles form oblique...
Aragonite is a polymorph of the mineral calcite, both having the chemical composition CaCO3. Its structure differs from calcite and leads to a different crystal shape, an orthorhombic system with acicular crystals. By repeated twinning pseudo-hexagonal forms result. It may be columnar or fibrous, occasionally in branching stalactitic forms called flos-ferri (flowers of iron) from their association with the ores at the Carthinian iron mines. The type location for aragonite is Molina de...
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