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VANCOUVER, March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Fortuna Silver Mines Inc. (NYSE: FSM) (TSX: FVI) (BVL: FVI (Frankfurt: F4S.F) is pleased to announce updated Mineral Reserve and Mineral Resource estimates as of December 2012 for the Caylloma Mine located in Arequipa, Peru and for the San Jose Mine located in Oaxaca, Mexico. Highlights of Reserve and Resource Update -- Combined Inferred Resources for Caylloma and San Jose increased to 10.9 Mt containing an estimated...
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...
Trading Symbols: GTP - (TSX-V) P01 - (FRANKFURT) COLTF - (OTCQX) MONTREAL, March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Colt Resources Inc. ("Colt" or the "Company") (TSXV: GTP) (FRA: P01) (OTCQX: COLTF) is pleased to announce details of updated mineral resource estimates for the Chamine and Casas Novas gold deposits and initial mineral resource estimates for the Banhos, Bracos and Ligeiro gold deposits located within the Company's 100% owned (47Km(2)) Boa Fe Experimental Mining License ("EML")....
TSX-V: MXR OTC BB: MXROF Frankfurt: M1D VANCOUVER, March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - MAX Resource Corp. (TSXV: MXR); (OTCBB: MXROF); (Frankfurt: M1D) has received the preliminary report by John Fox, P.Eng., Consulting Metallurgical Engineer of Laurion Consulting Inc. on the test work carried out on samples from it's wholly-owned Majuba Hill copper/silver project in Nevada by Inspectorate Exploration & Mining Services in Richmond, B.C. A total of fourteen samples of assay...
TSX-V: MED VANCOUVER, March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Medgold Resources Corp. (TSX-V: MED), the European focused gold exploration company, is pleased to announce that it has been issued the highly prospective 300 square kilometer Vila de Rei gold exploration licence in central Portugal. -- Licence located in highly prospective central Portuguese region. -- High-grade rock grab samples, from trace up to 24.7 g/t Au. -- Over 40 km of...
Hislop Pit Returns 94.56 g/t Au over 9.6 Metres; Sediment Zone Returns 5.60 g/t Au over 8.1 Metres TORONTO, March 4, 2013 /CNW/ - St Andrew Goldfields Ltd. (T-SAS), ("SAS" or the "Company") is pleased to announce drilling results from the Hislop North Project ("Hislop North"), northwest of the Hislop Mine, the Hislop Pit depth extension drilling ("Hislop Pit Complex"), additional drilling results from the Smoke Deep Zone ("Smoke Deep") and Sediment Zone at the Holloway Mine....
TORONTO, March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Riva Gold Corporation (TSX-V: RIV) ("Riva" or the "Company") announces today that it has entered into a letter of intent with Wildcat Silver Corporation ("Wildcat") providing for the acquisition by Wildcat of all of the outstanding common shares of Riva in consideration for 4.7 common shares of Riva for one common share of Wildcat. This represents a price of C$0.17 per Riva common share, which is based on the volume weighted average price of...
DENVER, March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Vista Gold Corp. ("Vista" or the "Corporation") (NYSE MKT and TSX: VGZ) today announced the positive results of a Preliminary Economic Assessment ("PEA") for its Guadalupe de los Reyes gold/silver project in Sinaloa, Mexico. The PEA evaluates the potential viability of a 1,500 tonne per day (540,000 tonne per annum) processing facility. Highlights of the PEA include: Payable production of 327,681 ounces of gold and 4.39 million ounces of...
[ Watch the Video: What is Global Warming ] redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Global warming was slowed between 2000 and 2010 because of sulfur dioxide spewed forth by volcanoes, researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) claim in a new study. Some experts had blamed China and India for the phenomenon, as both countries increased their industrial sulfur dioxide emissions by an...
TSX.V: AWS VANCOUVER, March 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Robert L. Card, President of Arrowstar Resources Ltd., (TSXV: AWS), (the "Company") reports that the Company has filed its application for a drilling permit on its Snettisham iron ore prospect located near Juneau, Alaska. The Company recently completed a ground magnetic survey of the property and coordinated the results with previously secured surface sample results. The drilling permit covers a proposed 3,600 meters of drilling...
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The Amsterdam and Saint-Paul Islands temperate grasslands is an ecoregion including two volcanic islands in the southern Indian Ocean. The French research vessel Marion Dufresne II, which services the Martin-de-Vivies research station on Amsterdam Island, is the only way to visit the islands. There are two volcanoes that lie 83 kilometers from each other in the center of a triangle between Australia, Antarctica and southern Africa called Ile Amsterdam and Ile Saint-Paul. The islands are...
Tristan da Cunha is an archipelago of five islands within the southern Atlantic Ocean, the biggest of which is the island of Tristan da Cunha itself and the second-biggest, the isolated bird haven Gough Island. It creates a portion of a wider territory named Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha which incorporates Saint Helena and Ascension Island. The main island, Tristan da Cunha, is fairly mountainous; the only flat area is the location of the capital, Edinburgh of the Seven...
The Columbia Plateau ecoregion is a Level III ecoregion designed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency in the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington, with little areas over the Washington state border in Idaho. This ecoregion stretches across a wide swath of the Columbia River Basin from the Dalles, Oregon to Lewiston, Idaho to Okanogan, Washington near the Canadian border. It incorporates nearly 500 miles of the Columbia River, as well as the lower reaches of major tributaries....
A river delta is a landform that is created at the mouth of a river, where the river flows into an ocean, estuary, lake, sea, or reservoir. These deltas are built from the deposition of the sediment that is carried by the river as the flow exit’s the mouth of the river. Over a long period of time, this deposition constructs the distinctive geographic pattern of a river delta. The creation of a delta is made up of three core forms: the bottomset, topset, and foreset/frontset. Bottomset...
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park is located in the United States on the island of Hawaiʻi. The park contains 323,431 acres of land, of which half is designated as Hawaii Volcanoes Wilderness, and the distinctive Mauna Loa and Kīlauea volcanoes. Mauna Loa is the world’s largest volcano and Kīlauea is among the world’s most active. The first American visitor to the park was Asa Thurston and the first English visitor was a missionary named William Ellis, both of whom traveled to the...
