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Canadian firm hopes to reopen old mine
Halfway up a stone-strewn hillside, Rob Wetzel picks up a fist-sized rock glittering in the morning sun.
“Quartz monzonite,” he says. “Those sparkles are copper minerals.”
Towering 200 feet above Wetzel are the remains of the Engels Mine processing plant, which produced 161 million pounds of copper from 1915 until 1930. Below him, Lights Creek cascades out [...]
Pan African Mining Corp.’s Sakoa South Coal Project Greenlighted by Malagasy Government
PAN AFRICAN MINING CORP. is pleased to announce that it has now received full environmental permitting from the Malagasy Government to commence exploration and development of its interests in the Sakoa South Coal deposit. The Company holds Research Permits covering 64 squares, which represents an area of approximately 400 sq. km., in Southwest Madagascar. It [...]
Control oil well-ness and gas
Ailing residents believe nearby oil and gas drilling is to blame for their conditions, but proof of any link remains elusive.
Dry Hollow – Dee Hoffmeister awoke at 3 a.m. early in March with her head spinning. The oversized red numbers on the alarm clock were a blur. She couldn’t get out of bed without her [...]
Industry praises drilling proposal
The Interior Department’s rollout Monday of a finalized proposal to open 48 million acres of off-limits federal waters for exploration and drilling drew praise from the oil and gas industry, though some said the move would barely tap vast undiscovered resources.
“Most U.S. offshore areas in the lower 48 states and some 80 percent of the [...]
Industry praises drilling proposal
The Interior Department’s rollout Monday of a finalized proposal to open 48 million acres of off-limits federal waters for exploration and drilling drew praise from the oil and gas industry, though some said the move would barely tap vast undiscovered resources.
“Most U.S. offshore areas in the lower 48 states and some 80 percent of the [...]
Feds propose offshore drilling expansion
The Interior Department announced a five-year plan Monday that would expand oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and set a 2011 lease-sale date for waters off the coast of Virginia.
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said he included Virginia in his five-year plan at the request of state officials. Drilling in the area has [...]
Power plant to begin operations in June 2008
PNM announced on Thursday the completion of contract negotiations with the third party company who will build, own and operate the Valencia Energy Facility in Rio Communities.
Jeff Buell, media representative for PNM, said the company has partnered with Black Hills Corporation (BHC) for the work to be done for the 140-megawatt natural gas-fired power plant [...]
Oil, gas leases near trout stream’s headwaters
Rancher Dick Gosman remembers the last time energy companies showed interest in drilling in Beaverhead County.
It was the early 1980s and companies punched a number of test wells throughout the southern end of the county. But that was the extent of it.
Local company in Czech uranium push
AUSTRALIAN mining company Uran Ltd signalled today that it wants a role in the development of Czech state-owned uranium mine Diamo, Europe’s only functioning uranium mine amid renewed interest in nuclear power.
Uranium is used as fuel for nuclear reactors. It’s price has risen sharply in response to concern about the effects on global warming of [...]
