Mindoro announces drilling results from Agata Nickel Project

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 […]

Mindoro Resources Ltd.: Agata Nickel Infill Drilling Completed; Higher-Grades Intersected

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 […]

Nickel Production Pending For Mindoro In The Philippines

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 Drills 16.9 Meters of 1.81% Nickel at Agata

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 […]

China to assist mineral survey

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 […]

Chinese geologists start first RP geochem mapping

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 […]

Australia’s Rusina votes in favor of European Nickel merger deal

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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Mindoro Agata Project Drilling Intersects Thick, High-Grade Nickel Laterite

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 […]

Nickel May Swing to Deficit for First Time in 4 Years

Jae Hur and Ichiro Suzuki
April 14 (Bloomberg) — The nickel market may swing into a deficit for the first time in four years as the global economy recovers from its worst postwar recession, fueling demand for stainless steel, said Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., the biggest producer in Japan.
World demand will probably exceed supply by 36,000 […]

Atlas to reopen mine in Palawan amid recovery in nickel prices

Neil Jerome C. Morales, BusinessWorld
MANILA, Philippines - Listed Atlas Consolidated Mining and Development Corp. is looking at reopening its nickel mine in Southern Luzon this year to take advantage of the recovery in nickel prices, company executives said.
The miner is also studying the feasibility of putting up a processing plant to add value to the […]