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1. Sacre-Coeur Minerals Begins Shipping of Gold Produced from Test Mining Program at Million Mountain Project in Guyana (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) - VANCOUVER, British Columbia----SACRE-COEUR MINERALS, LTD. announces that it has commenced shipping of limited gold production from its alluvial test mining program on Million Mountain Alluvial Zone 2, located in Guyana South America.
2. Midday Glance: Gold companies (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of some top gold companies are mixed at noon: Barrick Gold rose $.24 or .6 percent, to $38.99. Gold Fields fell $.10 or .8 percent, to $11.97. Goldcorp rose $.11 or .3 percent, to $39.56. Newmont Mining fell $.06 or .1 percent, to $50.21.
3. Strategic Mining Corporation Signs Agreement With Ba Dinh Minerals JSC to Acquire Gold Property (dBusinessNews.com) - CHEYENNE -- Strategic Mining Corporation (Pink Sheets:SMNG) announced today that it has signed an agreement with Ba Dinh Minerals JSC, a Vietnamese mining company, for the acquisition of the Nat Son 105 hectare gold property located near Long Son, Viet Nam.
4. Early Glance: Gold companies (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of some top gold companies are mixed at 10 a.m.: Barrick Gold fell $.04 or .1 percent, to $38.71. Gold Fields fell $.18 or 1.5 percent, to $11.89. Goldcorp rose $.08 or .2 percent, to $39.53. Newmont Mining fell $.38 or .8 percent, to $49.89.
5. Hochschild Mining Increases Holding in Gold Resource Corporation - GoldSeek.com (GoldSeek.com) - DENVER, CO--(Marketwire - 03/09/10) - Gold Resource Corporation (GRC) (OTC.BB:GORO - News) (Frankfurt:GIH - News) is pleased to announce that Hochschild Mining plc (Hochschild) has increased its holding in GRC to 28.7% with approximately 440,500 shares of open market purchases and a private placement purchasing 600,000 restricted shares of GRC's common stock with no warrants.
6. Brock keeps piling up gold with Cole family's mining (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) - Cole. Gold. Do those words sound alike? They should.
7. Hochschild Mining Increases Holding in Gold Resource Corporation (Marketwire) - DENVER, CO--(Marketwire - March 9, 2010) - Gold Resource Corporation (GRC) ( OTCBB : GORO ) ( FRANKFURT : GIH ) is pleased to announce that Hochschild Mining plc (Hochschild) has increased its holding in GRC to 28.7% with approximately 440,500 shares of open market purchases and a private placement purchasing 600,000 restricted shares of GRC's common stock with no warrants. Gold Resource ...
8. Northern Gold Announces New Investor Relations Consultant and Company Auditor, Grants Stock Options (Marketwire) - TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - March 11, 2010) - Northern Gold Mining Inc. ("Northern Gold" or "the Company") (TSX VENTURE:NGM) is pleased to announce that, subject to regulatory approval, it has retained the services of JM Corp. to provide various investor relations consulting services for the Company in connection with Northern Gold's interactions with broker-dealers, securities advisors ...
9. GOLD ANALYSIS (Mineweb) - As cash pressures mount, gold majors move to mine the markets, which are proving more lucrative than the mining of gold. Two of the world's biggest three gold miners, Barrick and AngloGold Ashanti , have started moves - no matter how tentative - towards possible constructive disintegration, as pressures continue to mount on gold miners world wide, despite eight successive years of rising dollar ...
10. Northern Gold Announces New Investor Relations Consultant and Company Auditor, Grants Stock Options (CCNMatthews via Yahoo! Finance) - TORONTO, ONTARIO-- - Northern Gold Mining Inc. is pleased to announce that, subject to regulatory approval, it has retained the services of JM Corp. to provide various investor relations consulting services for the Company in connection with Northern Gold's interactions with broker-dealers, securities advisors, investment funds, and members of the investment community.