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Coal Mine Exploration and Dumping of Mine Regulation at Mountaintop


Environmental safety is the rightful citizens, so that people can live comfortably by tercemar does not damage the environment. To ensure that the environment remains comfortable, they should be made a rule or regulation so that every community or company that will make the industrial development or to perform the exploration of natural wealth must [...]

Two Biggest Mining Companies After Merge, An Ambition Becomes The Biggest Mine Company In World


Marius Kloppers is determined to win his $127bn battle to merge BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, but must beat regulatory hurdles – and Rio’s opposition. Ruth Sunderland met a late starter who could become one of the globe’s most powerful men.
Marius Kloppers, chief executive of mining giant BHP Billiton, could be the patron saint of [...]

Mining Exploration, Market and Trade Reported


This week crude oil spiked 8% higher Friday into the high $130s; Senator Barack Obama cinches the Dem-Nom; an Israeli official says that bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities looks inevitable; the U.S. unemployment rate pops half a full percentage point to 5.5%; the buck gets thumped despite Bearded Ben’s early-week fireside chat (where he uncharacteristically mentioned [...]

Byproducts Part I: Is There a Tellurium Rush in the Making?


The world has had many gold rushes, two uranium rushes, so far that I can remember, and now, I think we’re on the verge of a tellurium rush. What’s that all about?
It’s about the time lag between the discovery of a chemical element and the discovery of a use for it. Briefly, until the last [...]

Gasification of coal worries some in Bowie


THIS IS the second of two stories about the proposed power plant near Bowie. The first ran April 4, 2007.
BOWIE – More questions than answers is how some in the Bowie area and the County Board of Supervisors regard a proposed coal-burning plant.
SouthWestern Power Group (SWPG) purchased more than 1,300 acres off of Rosewood Road [...]

Gasification of coal worries some in Bowie


This is the second of two stories about the proposed power plant near Bowie.
More questions than answers is how some people living in the Bowie area and the County Board of Supervisors regard a proposed coal-burning plant. SouthWestern Power Group (SWPG) purchased more than 1,300 acres off of Rosewood Road to build a 600-megawatt Integrated [...]

Northern Michigan investing time into energy


Michael and Tammy Buttigieg live the rustic Northern Michigan life.
Their log cabin home overlooks God’s country, where acres of trees nestle along a flowing creek.
On a recent afternoon, Michael hears the humming.
“It’s music to my ears,” Buttigieg said. “When you do hear it, it’s soothing.”
When the Buttigiegs made the move to Northern Michigan in 1998, [...]

Sherritt’s plans for $1.5B coal strip mine raise questions


Residents of East Central Alberta are about to see their landscape drastically change in the next five years.
On Monday, Sherritt announced the final Terms of Reference and made available their Public Disclosure Document for the Dodds – Round Hill Coal Gasification project.
This Project will be located approximately 80 kilometres southeast of Edmonton just south of [...]