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Altius (TSX: ALS) is pleased to announce drill core assay results have been received for the first four drill holes from its Kamistiatusset iron ore property located 10 km southwest of Wabush Mines in the heart of the iron ore mining district in western Labrador, Canada. A work program consisting of 24 drill holes totaling 6008 metres has been completed. Summarized assay results from the first four drill holes are provided in the table below. The highlights from these results are hole...

Tokyo, Oct. 8 (Jiji Press)--Japanese chemical maker Show Denko K.K. said Wednesday it has set up a subsidiary in Vietnam to make raw materials for rare-earth magnetic alloys. Showa Denko Rare-Earth Vietnam Co. will start production of didymium and dysprosium metals in April 2010 at an annual pace of 800 tons. The Ha Nam-based unit is capitalized at 6.36 million U.S. dollars, of which 90 pct is put up by Showa Denko and the remainder by Tokai Trade Co. of Japan. It aims to achieve sales of...

Tokyo, Oct 8, 2008 - (JCN Newswire) - Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has established Showa Denko Rare-Earth Vietnam Co., Ltd. in Ha Nam Province, Vietnam, as its 90%-owned subsidiary. The new company will begin constructing a plant next month for the production of didymium and dysprosium metals. Didymium is a metal consisting primarily of neodymium and praseodymium, and is used as raw material for neodymium-based high-performance magnetic alloys. The plant will start producing 800 tons a year in...

Canadian public health officials are reminding parents that small magnets pose a health hazard to young children who may swallow them. The magnets -- used increasingly in a wide range of products including toys and clothing -- can become loose and easily swallowed by small children. Swallowing more than one magnet over a short period of time can create an intestinal blockage or even a tear, with serious, even fatal, results, the government health agency said. Recently, a 5-year-old child in...

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Sept. 11, 2008) - Manicouagan Minerals Inc. ("MAM") (TSX VENTURE:MAM) is pleased to announce additional diamond drill results from its Barre de Fer Prospect, part of the HPM/Forgues property located in Mid-North Quebec. Diamond drill hole HPM-08-03 (collared at -60 degrees) intersected 43.18 metres grading 1.74% nickel, 0.90% copper and 904 ppm (parts per million) cobalt (between 79.82 to 123.00 metres) including 12.04 metres which assayed 2.35% nickel, 0.88%...

DENVER, CO, Aug. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- International Royalty Corporation (the "Company" or "IRC") today reported its second quarter 2008 financial results. All figures are unaudited and in United States dollars unless otherwise noted. Quarterly Highlights Royalty revenues were $8,610,000 for the second quarter of 2008, a decrease of $4,597,000 from the same period last year. An increase in royalty revenues from the Southern Cross and Meekatharra gold mines of $113,000 and $51,000,...

First Nickel Inc. ("First Nickel" or the "Company") (TSX: FNI) announces that it has filed with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities its unaudited financial statements, and management's discussion and analysis for the three and six month period ended June 30, 2008. Complete results will also be available on SEDAR and on the Company's website at www.firstnickel.com. All dollar amounts are expressed in Canadian currency unless otherwise stated. Summary - Second quarter net loss of...

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Aug. 6, 2008) - Aura Minerals Inc. ("Aura Minerals" or the "Company") (TSX:ORA) is pleased to announce that it has launched a comprehensive program to test and evaluate a major iron occurrence that has recently been identified during a reconnaissance program undertaken at its Inaja Project in Para State, Brazil. The Inaja Project is located within the Carajas Metallogenic Province which is well known for its world- class iron, copper, nickel and gold...

Vulcan Minerals Inc. ("the Company")(TSX VENTURE: VUL) is pleased to announce that it has been advised by Nortec Ventures Corp. (Nortec) that drilling has commenced on the TL - Tasisuak Lake nickel-copper-cobalt property in Northern Labrador. The property is situated along a regional geological contact between Nain Plutonic rocks, which hosts the Voisey's Bay nickel-copper mine, and sulphur rich gneisses near a crustal suture between two Precambrian continental plates. A magmatic sulphide...

By Winkler, S Thompson, A; Salisbury, C; Worswick, M; Van Riemsdijk, I; Mayer, R In order to understand the crashworthiness and formability of advance high-strength steels, the effects of strain rate and temperature on the constitutive response of DP 600 and DP 780 steel tubes were investigated and compared with commercial drawing quality (DQ) and high strength low alloy (HSLA) 350 steel tubes. Uniaxial tensile tests were conducted at quasi-static (QS) (0.003 and 0.1 s^sup -1^), intermediate...