Year: 2014

BIG NORTH GRAPHITE CORP. announces that it has closed the first tranche of a private placement announced January 10, 2014. A total of 5,058,332 units at a price of 6 cents per Unit have been issued for gross proceeds of $303,500.

Cangold Limited announces a non-brokered private placement of up to 5,000,000 units with each unit comprising one common share and one half warrant at a price of $0.15 per unit, for gross proceeds of up to $750,000. Each full warrant will be exercisable for one common share of the Company at a price of $0.25 for a period of one year from the date of issue provided, however, that should the closing price of the common shares on the TSX Venture Exchange be at least $0.33 per share for 10 consecutive trading days (at any time at or following the expiry of the four month resale restriction period), the Company may, by notice to the holder (supplemented by a news release of general dissemination) reduce the remaining exercise period applicable to the warrants to not less than 30 days from the date of such notice.

SilverCrest Mines Inc. is pleased to announce that the Company will begin trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange on February 24, 2014 following its graduation from the TSX Venture Exchange. The common shares of the Company will be concurrently delisted from TSXV upon commencement of trading on TSX. The trading symbol for the common shares of SilverCrest will remain “SVL”. The common shares of the Company are also listed on NYSE MKT under the symbol “SVLC.

No es oro todo lo que reluce. También lo hacen las compañías mineras que se dedican a extraer éste y otros metales preciosos. Al menos en Bolsa. El reciente repunte de precios de las materias primasha devuelto a sus gráficas parte del brillo perdido en los últimos meses, y los analistas consideran que laremontada no ha hecho más que comenzar.

Boart Longyear Ltd., the world’s biggest provider of drilling services for the mining sector, has tried everything from a new chief executive to slashing thousands of jobs to weather a global downturn in resources spending.

Excalibur Resources Ltd. announces that it has arranged a non-brokered private placement of 2,500,000 Units at $0.12 per Unit for a total of $300,000. Each Unit consists of one common share and one share purchase warrant, exercisable to acquire an additional common share at $0.15 per share for a period of two years. Proceeds will be applied to working capital, corporate development and to the Company’s Catanava gold and silver production project in Mexico.

Braeval Mining Corporation has entered into a definitive business combination agreement with Oban Exploration Limited, a private company, pursuant to which Braeval will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Oban pursuant to a three-cornered amalgamation between Oban and a wholly owned subsidiary of Braeval. As a result of the transaction, the holders of Oban common shares will receive 0.914 of a common share of Braeval (on a post consolidation basis) for each Oban common share so held. Following completion of the transaction, the amalgamated company will hold all of Oban’s assets and will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Braeval.

Solitario Exploration & Royalty Corp. announces that it has received irrevocable commitments to purchase shares of Solitario common stock in a private placement conducted by Solitario. Solitario received the first such commitment on February 17, 2014. In total, Solitario received commitments to purchase 1,600,000 shares of common stock at US $1.05 per share for aggregate consideration of $1,680,000 in the Offering. Solitario retained a placement agent in connection with the portion of the Offering conducted in Canada and has agreed to pay such placement agent a fee of $50,000 for the sale effected to the single Canadian investor that participated in the Offering.