10 Chinese coal producers have joined a UN program to promote the development and deployment of clean coal technologies. The move aims to reduce emissions and environmental pollution. But some analysts believe it will take a while for China to reduce its reliance on coal.
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Black Hawk Exploration, Inc. has okayed a new drill program for Lithium bearing brines in the Clayton Valley, Esmeralda County Nevada. The exploration will consume 1,120 acres of land in the valley. Based on the US Geological Survey from the 198’s, the brines are estimated to be between 600 and 800 feet.
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Diversified resources company Black Fire Minerals has snapped up the Karibib Lithium Pegmatite Project from Australian private company Sunrise Minerals in a deal worth about $455,000.
The acquisition will be facilitated via Black Fire purchasing Sunrise’s private Namibian subsidiary Starting Right Investments Ninety Four, which is the holder of the Karibib Project Exclusive Prospecting Licences EPL3750 and EPL3751. Read More…
Mayflies may seal the fate of mountaintop mining in the Appalachian hills of the eastern U.S.
Companies such as Massey Energy Co. that mine coal there by stripping mountain peaks and dumping debris in streams are being asked by the Environmental Protection Agency for the first time to safeguard the mayfly, one of the oldest winged insects and a bait favored by fly-fisherman.
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A subsidiary of Massey Energy has begun mountaintop-removal coal-mining operations on Coal River Mountain in West Virginia, the only peak in Coal River Valley that hasn’t been blasted away for mining. Blasting for the mine is taking place 200 yards from the Brushy Fork coal slurry impoundment, which holds 8 billion gallons of toxic coal sludge above the Coal River community.
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Report submitted by the USGS said gold production in Mexico has doubled while the United States gold production fell by approximately 35%. The same opinion delivered by the president Timmins gold mining companies. As known Canadian mining companies do a lot of gold mining exploration activities in Mexico.
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New Gold Inc. today announced unaudited financial and operational results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2009. Gold production was 79,531 ounces in comparison to 68,801 ounces in the same quarter in 2008. Earnings from mine operations increased by 67% to $22.6 million from $13.5 million in the third quarter of 2008. Read More…
Australia mining companies will make lithium mining exploration in Ravensthorpe, Western Australia. Ravensthorpe mine in the area once used by the mining company BHP Billiton nickel mine exploration, but exploration of nickel mines closed, so that people in the Ravensthorpe area lost their jobs. Read More…
Alexis mining company has started mining gold exploration projects in the Lac Pelletier Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec. Alexis mining companies have been doing the excavation of two mining zones of the four planned gold mine. Read More…
