Central Rand Gold (JNB:CRD) is seeking help from the Pretoria High Court to keep operating after its mining license was set aside by the South African Department of Mineral Resources.
On Monday Central Rand Gold, a company focused on gold prospecting and mining in the Central Rand Goldfield of South Africa, learned its mining license would be cancelled because it failed to carry through with various environmental and labour guidelines.
Pacific Gold Corp. ("PCFG") today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a share repurchase program, effective immediately.
Under the program, PCFG is authorized to repurchase up to 5 million of its issued and outstanding common shares in the open market or in negotiated transactions, from time to time, depending on market conditions and other factors as well as subject to relevant rules under Untied States securities regulations.
VANCOUVER, Sept. 28, 2011 /CNW/ - ESO Uranium Corp. (TSXV: ESO), (the "Company" or "ESO") and its 50% Joint Venture (JV) partner Fission Energy (TSX-V: FIS), announce further results from its June 2011 uranium boulder prospecting and radon soil gas survey program:
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Sept. 28, 2011) - Taku Gold Corp. (the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:TAK) is pleased to announce results from detailed deep auger-type soil sampling completed over a number of grids established throughout the Sulphur property. The 536-claim (11,095-hectare) property is located approximately 45km due south of Dawson City in the Klondike gold camp of Yukon. The detailed grid sampling was completed over prospective areas identified by "ridge and spur" sampling completed in May and June 2011. The grid sampling was done at 50m sample stations on lines spaced 100m apart.
Fear crept out of the markets today and buyers came back. The S&P 500 was up 1.07% and the S&P TSX was up less than 1%.
Gold futures rose to $1,652.50/oz, up 3.6 percent. On Monday, gold went as low as $1,535/oz.
The overnight stock markets were also up. The Hang Seng Index was up 4.15% and the S&P ASX closed 3.64% higher.
World Gold Council said European central bank sold 1.1 tonnes of gold during the year, the lowest annual sales since the Central Bank Gold Agreement began in September 1999. The current agreement permits signatories to sell 400 tonnes of gold collectively per annum.
The council said that European signatories showed a similar unwillingness to sell gold in the prior year of the agreement, selling just 7.1 tonnes of the permitted 400 tonnes ceiling.
Rio Tinto announced on Tuesday that it paid Can$73 million for 49% of Ivanhoe Mines.
Rio Tinto acquired an additional 3,700,000 common shares in Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. through a wholly-owned subsidiary, Rio Tinto International Holdings Limited, increasing Rio Tinto's ownership in Ivanhoe Mines by 0.5 per cent to a total of 361,858,442 common shares or 49 per cent through a privately negotiated share purchase agreement.
Johannesburg. Tuesday, 27 September 2011. Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited (Harmony) regrets to advise that following an ore pass accident and subsequent rescue efforts, an employee and two members of an external rescue team were fatally injured yesterday at its Evander mine in Mpumalanga.
Investigations are currently underway to establish the causes of the accidents. Operations at the mine have been stopped until investigations have been completed
