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Erdene Announces Start of Resource Delineation Drilling on the Zuun Mod Molybdenum Project
Erdene Gold Inc. today announced that it is commencing its 2007 drilling program at its wholly owned Zuun Mod molybdenum project in Mongolia based on advice from Minarco Asia Pacific Pty Limited (”Minarco”), who have recommended a two-stage delineation drilling program. The company has signed contracts with drilling, surveying and logistical companies with two [...]
Far East Energy Corporation: Shareholder Questions and Concerns
Cabeza Howe Far East Energy Corporation’s Operations Update & Investor Q&A Webcast is right around the corner. I encourage my fellow investors and interested parties to call in and ask questions. This is an opportunity for us to help promote the company’s shareholder communication, corporate governance, and enhance shareholder value. It is also a window [...]
EU Commission to Present Energy Plan
An energy crunch that chokes fuel supplies, dims the lights at homes and workplaces, and ravages Western economies may no longer be the stuff of 1970s history books. It could be a vision of the near future.
The 1970s oil crisis gave Western countries a glimpse of what life is like when the energy supply isn’t [...]
Missed Opportunities for 2006: Uranium, China, Food & Water
Investing the Middle Way submits: Year-end is usually a time for reflection. I’m planning a more quantitative look at my portfolio this year, but as always, numbers don’t tell you the whole story. In this post, I want to take a look at some of the missed opportunities in 2006. In a way, it will [...]
Gold Rush Plunges Undersea as Miners Scour Pacific (Correct)
(Corrects company in 10th paragraph whose shares declined.)
David Heydon says the rock he dredged from a mile beneath the sea off Papua New Guinea looked like nothing more than a dull-brown fire hydrant. Inside were veins of copper and gold worth $300.
Two companies exploring the South Pacific seas with new remote-controlled robots are betting rocks [...]
World’s largest miner to plough $150m into African minerals exploration in 2007
Resources giant BHP Billiton has identified sub-Saharan African and the former Soviet Union as prime exploration territories as it seeks to sustain a strong project pipeline capable of securing long-term supply, particularly for the increasingly resources-hungry developing world.
CEO Chip Goodyear believes demand for mine- ral resources will continue to remain strong, possibly for decades, led [...]
Russia spins global energy spider’s web
The vast bulk of the world’s oil, gas and strategic minerals resources either is coming under or is already under the control of authoritarian, or less-than-democratic, or leftist, or otherwise radical regimes either with a decidedly anti-Western political stance and ideology or pointedly decreased sensitivities to strategic US interests.
It is difficult to name more than [...]
Iran Energy Program : Power and the people
Iran says it wants nuclear energy to fuel its economy. The US says it wants to build an ‘Islamic bomb’. But what do Iranians think about the deepening crisis? Given rare access, Simon Tisdall spoke to people on the streets of Tehran – and to the men in charge of the country’s nuclear programme.
Tensions between [...]
