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MANILA, Philippines — Marcventures Holdings Inc. (MARC), a listed company in the Philippine Stock Exchange, recently announced that its wholly owned mining subsidiary - Marcventures Mining and Development Corporation (MMDC) completed its first shipment of high-grade nickel ore from its mine in Surigao del Sur last week.
The mining subsidiary shipped out 55,600 wet metric […]

MANILA, Philippines — Marcventures Mining & Development Corporation (MMDC), a unit of Marventures Holdings, is considering sites owned by Semirara Mining Corporation or Atlas Mining and Development Corporation for a possible ferro-nickel processing plant.
MMDC president Ramon Recto said the proposed plant will require a power supply of about 30 megawatts and they can get this […]

Mindoro Resources Limited has announced the last batch of infill drilling results from the company’s Agata Nickel Project in the Philippines with grades and thickness of potential economic interest, including limonite intersections averaging 4.06 meters at 1.15% nickel, 0.13% cobalt and 48% iron and saprolite intersections averaging 7.25 meters at 1.31% nickel. The peak limonite […]

EDMONTON, ALBERTA–(Marketwire - Aug. 10, 2010) - Mindoro Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:MIO) (FRANKFURT:WKN 906167) today announced the last batch of infill drilling results from the company’s Agata Nickel Project in the Philippines with grades and thickness of potential economic interest, including limonite intersections averaging 4.06 meters (m) at 1.15% Nickel, 0.13% Cobalt and 48% Iron […]

Claire O’Connor and James West

It is rare, in the mining world, to secure quality along with quantity, but Mindoro Resources (TSX.V: MIO) believes it has done just that. With a well established license to operate in the Philippines, Mindoro has defined a large nickel-cobalt resource on its Surigao Project, has proven up gold resources on […]

Mindoro Resources Ltd. today announced further infill drilling results from the company’s Agata Nickel Project in the Philippines.with grades and thickness of potential economic interest, including limonite intersections averaging 4.67m @ 1.28% Nickel, 0.13% Cobalt and 48% Iron and saprolite intersections averaging 8.0m @1.28% Nickel including AGL-462 that intersected 16.9m @ 1.81% Nickel from 4.65m […]

K. A. Martin
THE MINES and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) and its Chinese counterpart, China Geological Survey, will start this month surveys of mineral deposits in the Visayas and Mindanao under an agreement both agencies signed in December last year.
MGB director Edwin G. Domingo said in a phone interview yesterday that the China state agency, which is […]

Surveyors from China are now in the Philippines to do the first in a series of geochemical mapping of copper and nickel deposits in the country.
“We’ve entered into an agreement with our Chinese counterpart for the conduct of a more scientific exploration. Whatever we will yield maybe used as initial data for the exploration of […]

Agnieszka Troszkiewicz
Shareholders of Rusina Mining, an Australian-based exploration company, have voted in favor of a merger with UK-based European Nickel, the two companies said Wednesday.
The companies said that an “overwhelming” majority of Rusina’s shareholders approved the arrangement at Wednesday’s court-ordered scheme meeting, a statement said.
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EDMONTON, ALBERTA
Mindoro Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:MIO)(FRANKFURT:WKN 906167) announces progress on the infill drilling program at Agata Nickel Project.
A total of 52 holes for 940 meters (m) have been completed from a detailed infill drilling program totaling 2,500 to 3,000 meters. Results have been received for 322 core assays from the first 16 holes, drilled […]