Media Releases

Lynn Lake Greenstone Belt Mineral Exploration and Development

A number of larger and junior mining companies maintain interests on properties in the Lynn Lake Greenstone Belt.  Listed below are media releases issued by larger and junior mining companies on their respective properties within the Greenstone Belt, along with relevant government and other media releases that pertain to mineral exploration and development.

The Lynn Lake Nickel Mining Company (Seymour Exploration), and the REM/North American Palladium partnership are among the two larger companies active in mineral exploration in the Greenstone Belt.  Media releases have been arranged according to the more active exploration companies, and by government.  If your company would like to post a media release on this webpage, please email the E.D.O.

Special Announcement -- PROVINCE COMMITS $70 MILLION TO CLEAN UP ABANDONED MINES

VMS Ventures Inc

(formerly known as Rare Earth Metals Inc.)

#20 - Rare Earth Metals Corp Reports Winter Exploration at the Lynn Lake Nickel-Copper Property, Manitoba Has Commenced

#19 - REM Announces Drill Program At Eden Lake

#22- Rare Earth Metals Corp Announces Change of Name to VMS Ventures INC.

#23- VMS Ventures Announces Financing and Option Grant

#24 - VMS Ventures Reports Drill Testing of Nickel Targets to Commence on the Lynn Lake Gabbros Project, Manitoba

#21- REM’s Nickel Property “In Play”

#26 - Is the Lynn Lake Nickel Camp becoming Canada's hottest Nickel play?

#25 - VMS Ventures Reports Drill Testing of Nickel Targets has Commenced on Lynn Lake Gabbros Project, MB #18 - REM - October 2005 Corporate Update

#4 - Seymour Exploration Provides Update on Lynn Lake Nickel Mine Property

#5 - Seymour Exploration files Technical report (43-101) pertaining to the Lynn Lake Nickel Mine

#10 - Seymour Exploration Corp. Provides Update on Exploration Activities at Lynn Lake

#7 - Seymour Exploration Announces 6.4 Million Ton Resource Grading 0.85% Nickel at the Lynn Lake Mine Property

#6 - Seymour squeaky clean over Lynn Lake contamination

#11 - Seymour Exploration Corp. Announces Board Appointments

#16 - REM Announces Share Distribution Date

#15 - Rare Earth Metals Announces $720,000 Financing

#14 - Independent Nickel Corporation Completes Successful First Phase of Drilling at Lynn Lake

#8 - Seymour Exploration Secures Sole Ownership of Lynn Lake Property

#9 - Seymour Resources Announces Share Sale

#13 - Seymour Resources Changes Name to Independent Nickel Corporation

#3 - Seymour Exploration Corporation Completes Acquisition of Lynn Lake Nickel Mine, Restructures Senior Management and Arranges Private Placement

#17 - Rare Earth Metals Reports that Drilling has Commenced at the Extension Claims, Assean Lake, MB

#14 - REM Media Release Related to Seymour Exploration and Wallbridge Mining Purchase of Lynn Lake Nickel Mine

#15 - INDEPENDENT NICKEL CORP. FILES PRELIMINARY ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT PEGGING LYNN LAKE FREE CASH FLOW AT $305 MILLION OVER 10 YEAR MINE LIFE

#16 - Independent Nickel Corp. Increases Non-Brokered Private Placement Financing

#12 - Seymour Exploration Corp. Announces Interim Results

#2 - Seymour Exploration and Wallbridge Mining Announce Purchase of the Lynn Lake Nickel Mine

#1 - Lynn Lake Media Release in Response to Wallbridge Mining Announcement

#13 - Rare Earth Metals Feb. 2005 Update

#12 - REM Announces Appointment of New Officer

#11 REM Offers Private Placement

#10 REM Update Dec. 20, 2004

#9 - REM Discovers Li-Cs-Ta (LCT)–Type Rare Metal Pegmatite Field, South Bay Property, Manitoba

#8 - REM Update: Uranium Enrichment at the Eden Lake Carbonatite/Alkaline Complex

#7 - Rare Earth Metals (REM) Update: Follow Up to David Vaughn's "Gold Letter" concerning Eden Lake

#6 - Rare Earth Metals - Drilling at High-Grade Gold Property Resumes

#5 - Rare Earth Metals Announces Acquisition of the Lynn Gabbro Nickel-Copper Properties in Lynn Lake, Manitoba

#4 - South Bay, Manitoba Nickel-Copper-Cobolt-PGM-Gold Project: Partial Drilling Results

#3 - Final Assays from Assean Lake Gold Project Winter Drill Program

#2 - Rare Earth's Assean Lake Initial Drill Results

#1 - Rare Earth Explores Nickel find at South Bay

#5 - More Assistance for Minerals Industry

#1 - Manitoba Government News Release - Province provides $1.1 million for mineral exploration

#17 - Independent Nickel Corporation Announces Non-Brokered Flow-Through Private Placement Financing

The Lynn Lake Nickel Mine (Independent Nickel Corporation (formerly Seymour Exploration))

#18 - Independent Nickel Corporation Completes Financing

#19 - Independent Nickel Corp. Provides Update For the Lynn Lake Nickel Mine

#20 - Independent Nickel Corp. Announces Initiation of Full Pre-feasibility Study

#23 - Independent Nickel Corp. Closes $13 Million Financing Sudbury, Ontario – May 8, 2007

#29 - Independent Nickel Announces Positive Results of Lynn Lake Pre-Feasibility Study Improving Project Economics

#21 - Independent Nickel Acquires Manitoba Nickel Royalties

#22 - Independent Nickel Announces $13 Million Financing

#24 -Independent Nickel Corp. Announces Discovery of New Nickel Zone at Lynn Lake and Provides Interim Results of Ongoing Drill Program

#25 - Independent Nickel Corp. Closes Acquisition of Victory Nickel’s Minago Nickel Royalty

#26 - Independent Nickel Receives Conditional Approval to List on Toronto Stock Exchange Sudbury, Ontario

#27 - Independent Nickel Corp. Announces Start of Trading on Toronto Stock Exchange and Provides Corporate Update

#28 - Independent Nickel Receives Positive Results from Metallurgical Testing

#30 - Independent Nickel Files Positive Lynn Lake Pre-Feasibility Study

Independent Nickel Corporation and the Lynn Lake Nickel Mine

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Carlisle Goldfields Limited (Reworking the old MacLellan Mine)

• The company's principal properties consisting of 125 Mining Claims and 187 Mining Leases in the Lynn Lake Greenstone Belt of Northern Manitoba, covering 20,000 hectares, near the town of Lynn Lake.

• Included are the former producing BT and, Farley Lake Open Pit Mines which produced 292,200 ounces of gold, and the former MacLellan Mine which operated from 1986 to 1989 producing 143,984 ounces of gold.

• The MacLellan Mine property was first staked in 1950 and acquired by Agassiz Mines Ltd. in 1955. Sherritt Gordon Mines Limited acquired the property in 1979 and did further exploration and development from 1979 – 1985. The property was transferred to Sherrgold in 1986 and mining began with the company name being changed to Lynngold in 1988. Production at the MacLellan Mine commenced in January 1987, after a capital expenditure of $45 million. Mining ended in 1989 when tonnage/grade targets could not be met because of “excessive dilution/mining problems”, and the mine and mill put on care and maintenance.

• The southern part of the belt is the “Johnson Trend”. The Johnson Shear follows the belt for more than 40 kilometres and over 16 known gold occurrences are associated with this structure.

• Two significant mineralized zones are known, one with open pit grades (T1A Deposit) and one with potential underground mine grades (BT North Zone).

Proposed Two Phase Exploration Program
Phase I (2007)Data Compilation Mapping, Geochemistry, Geophysics$ 250,000 Phase II (2008)Diamond Drilling$ 750,000 Total$ 1,000,000

#4 - Carlisle reports drill Results at MacLellan

#3 - Carlisle Goldfields Ltd. retains Renmark Financial Communications Inc.

#2 - Carlisle updates drilling at Lynn Lake

#1 - Carlisle Goldfields Limited Opens TSX Trading on Monday, March 5th, 2007

#5 - Carlisle optimistic about resource estimate

Western Areas NL  (Reworking the old EL Mine) #7 - Carlisle Closes Private Placement Financing with the Mineralfields Group

The Board of Western Areas NL is pleased to announce t #6 - Carlisle Goldfields Announces Private Placement he Company has executed an Option Agreement to acquire 100% interest in a strategic holding of mining claims (the “Dunlop Claims”) at one of Canada’s premier nickel, copper and cobalt mining camps, Lynn Lake. The agreement also includes a group of claims which cover a significant Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide (“VMS”) zinc rich deposit (8.8% zinc) at McBride Lake, 70km east of Lynn Lake.  For further information, visit http://www.westernareas.com.au/newsDocs/93_0703 15 Lynn Lake Agreement.pdf

Rox Resources (Reworking the old Fox Mine Properties)

Rox Resources Ltd. is a Canadian mineral exploration company publicly traded on the NASD Pink Sheets, stock symbol RXRS. The company's headquarters are located in Toronto, Ontario with an exploration office in Lynn Lake, Manitoba.

Rox Resources is taking a proactive position in the emerging Lynn Lake exploration camp in N.W. Manitoba. The company is actively engaged in seeking out high potential economic deposits throughout Canada.

#9 - Province Commits $70 Million to Clean up Abandoned Mines

Manitoba Provincial Government

#3 - Over $24 Million in Mineral Exploration Supported with $1.4 Million

#2 - Mineral Exploration Worth $24 Million Receives $1.1 Million

#7 - Mining Assistance Funding News Positive Results

#6 - Province Announces Tax Credit Incentive Renewed

#4 - Manitoba Government News Release - Province of Manitoba has been rated as having the best policy

environment in the world for mining investment

#8 - Province Commits $6.8 Million to Rehabilitate Orphaned and Abandoned Mines

#1 - Rox Resources Ltd. Announces Completion of the Acquisition of the Fox Mine Property, a Former Past Producing Copper-Zinc Mine, Located in Manitoba, Canada

Rox Resources Ltd. Announces Completion of the Acquisition of the Fox Mine Property, a Former Past Producing Copper-Zinc Mine, Located in Manitoba, Can

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