Empire Mining announces that effective tomorrow, January 10th, 2013, it will commence trading on the TSX Venture Exchange under the new name Columbus Copper Corporation and the new ticker symbol CCU. Shareholders are not required to take any action in connection with the change of name; physical share certificates of Empire Mining Corporation will [...]
Empire Mining announces that its Directors have approved a name change to Columbus Copper Corporation. The change will take effect at the opening of trading on January 10, 2013 - Empire will commence trading on the TSX Venture Exchange under the new name Columbus Copper Corporation and the new ticker symbol CCU. There is no consolidation of [...]
Empire Mining is pleased to report that a high resolution, helicopter-borne magnetic and radiometric geophysical survey has commenced over its Bursa licences in western Turkey to aid regional geological and structural interpretation as well as to identify extensions to previously-identified mineralization and to locate new exploration targets. The [...]
Empire is pleased to report that it has fully recovered its Albanian chromite licenses, and does not expect further appeals from the Albanian Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Energy. As last reported on July 3, 2012, Empire sued METE to recover the Property and won at trial and on a subsequent appeal by METE. Empire is pleased to announce that METE [...]
Empire Mining is pleased to announce that an initial 3,000 meter, ten hole diamond core drilling program has commenced at its Karapinar copper porphyry project in Turkey. First Quantum Minerals Ltd. is funding the program and can earn an initial 51% interest by among other things, completing $8.5 million in exploration expenditures. For additional [...]
Empire Mining is pleased to announce that it has closed the second and final tranche of its non-brokered private placement announced on August 20, 2012 and September 6, 2012. Each tranche involved the issuance and sale of 15,000,000 common shares at $0.10 per Share (no warrants were included); across both tranches Empire was fully subscribed and [...]
Empire Mining is pleased to report that past geophysical surveys undertaken at its 100% owned Nevlje Project in Serbia have identified what is believed to be the most intense magnetic anomaly in Serbia. Empire has carried out confirmatory geophysical work that, combined along with its own geochemical sampling results and through review of [...]
Empire Mining is pleased to announce that it has closed the first tranche of its non-brokered private placement announced on August 20, 2012, under which the Company expects to sell up to 30,000,000 common shares at $0.10 per Share. Under the first tranche, Empire has issued and sold 15,000,000 Shares to First Quantum Minerals for gross proceeds of [...]
Empire Mining is pleased to announce that it has entered into a binding letter agreement with First Quantum Minerals, subject to certain conditions, respecting Empire's Bursa Licenses, which cover the Demirtepe skarn and Karapinar porphyry projects in Western Turkey. Empire is also pleased to announce a non-brokered private placement of its common [...]
Empire Mining is pleased to report that it has again won a lawsuit against the Albanian Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Energy, and has recovered its Bulqiza-Batra chromite license. As reported on May 29, 2012, Empire has already sued METE and won at trial, METE appealed, but this appeal was not successful and now a second Albanian court has ruled [...]
Empire Mining is pleased to report that it has won a lawsuit against the Albanian Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Energy, respecting Empire's Bulqiza chromite project licenses. As expected, METE has requested a hearing date for an appeal of this decision, which has been set for June 26, 2012. Empire initiated this lawsuit over METE's administrative [...]
Empire Mining is pleased to report the it has made the final payment of US$1.5 million to Alacer Gold Corp. to complete the 100% acquisition of the Bursa licences in Turkey which host the Karapinar copper-porphyry and Demirtepe copper-gold-silver and molybdenum projects, as last announced on December 23, 2011.
