Commercial Metals Company announced today guidance for its first quarter ended November 30 , 2011.  CMC expects first quarter earnings to be in the range of $0.87 to $0.97 per diluted share, which represents a substantial increase over the $0.01 earnings per share recorded for the first quarter of fiscal 2011 and the $1.04 loss per [...]

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Commercial Metals Company (NYSE: CMC - News) today announced that its Board of Directors, after consultation with its independent legal and financial advisers, unanimously recommends that Commercial Metals Company (“CMC”) stockholders reject the unsolicited tender offer (the “Offer”) from IEP Metals Sub LLC, an affiliate of Carl Icahn (“Mr. Icahn”), to acquire CMC for $15.00 per share, as [...]

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MAG Silver Corp. (“MAG” or the “Company”) announces an independent updated Mineral Resource estimate for the Juanicipio Property completed by Roscoe Postle Associates Inc. (“RPA”) on behalf of MAG. The updated RPA Mineral Resource estimate is based on drill results available as of August 5, 2011, and was prepared in parallel with the June 2011 [...]

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Century Aluminum Company announced today that its subsidiary, Nordural Helguvik hf, has received the results of its arbitration with one of the power suppliers to its Helguvik greenfield smelter. The arbitration panel ruled that the parties’ power contract remains in force in accordance with its terms and that HS Orka hf remains obligated to provide [...]

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Eldorado Gold Corporation (the “Company” or “Eldorado”) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement (the “Arrangement Agreement”) with European Goldfields Limited (“European Goldfields”)  pursuant to which Eldorado has agreed to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of European Goldfields by way of a plan of arrangement (the “Arrangement”) under [...]

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GREAT PANTHER SILVER LIMITED  (the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has finalized arrangements to sell all available concentrate inventories from Guanajuato before year end and is well advanced in securing new contracts for fiscal 2012 concentrate sales for both the Guanajuato and Topia Mines. This will ensure strong fourth quarter revenues which will [...]

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Hecla Mining Company  is reporting that the rock burst that injured seven miners Wednesday night at the Lucky Friday mine near Mullan, Idaho, is unrelated to two previous fatal accidents which occurred earlier in the year. In addition, all seven Hecla miners are expected to fully recover from their non-life-threatening injuries. Most of the miners [...]

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Molycorp, Inc.  today announced that it has been granted authorization from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to commence exploratory drilling at an occurrence of heavy rare earths located near its flagship rare earth manufacturing facility at Mountain Pass, California. “This is an important milestone in our heavy rare earth strategy, and we expect to [...]

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Timberline Resources Corporation (“Timberline” or the “Company”) today announced consolidated financial results for its fourth fiscal quarter and its fiscal year ended September 30, 2011. A summary of selected financial results is presented in the following table:   ($US 000′s, except earnings         3 Months Ending             Year Ending  per share)                            September 30            September 30                                    2011        2010        2011        2010                              ———————————————– Loss from continuing  operations                   $  (2,134)  $  (2,811)  $  (6,836)  $  (5,843) Income (loss) from  discontinued operations          1,994        (284)      4,506          92 Consolidated net loss              (140)     (3,095)     (2,330)     (5,751) Consolidated net loss per  share, basic and diluted           nil       (0.06)      (0.04)      (0.13) Mineral exploration expenses      1,576       1,686       4,368       2,221 Working capital                     256       2,827         256       2,827 In November 2011, Timberline closed [...]

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El Capitan Precious Metals, Inc. (OTCBB:ECPN) announces that it has repeatedly demonstrated a commercial assay method employing samples of ’chain-of-custody’ ore that yields results comparable to its dore bar production results. The most recent samples of ore have assayed at 1.2 ounces of gold equivalent per ton. This industry method has repeatedly and consistently yielded [...]

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