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Coal Mining Industry Concerns EPA Policy : Mountaintop Mining Permits in West Virginia and Kentucky
Gov. Joe Manchin went to Washington, DC., to meet with senior White House environmental officials Wednesday to discuss coal industry concerns after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency blocked some mountaintop mining permits in West Virginia and Kentucky.
Oil and Gas Exploration Project Fall in Prices
From the plains of North Dakota to the deep waters of Brazil, dozens of major oil and gas projects have been suspended or canceled in recent weeks as companies scramble to adjust to the collapse in energy markets.
Significant Potential For Major New Iron Ore Province
Preliminary field reconnaissance confirms extensive exposure (over 100km) of sedimentary iron ore, with many assays over 40% Iron, and low Phosphorous.
Beneficiation studies planned
Project location on northern edge of the Surat Basin adjacent to large developed gas fields, towns, road, rail and other infrastructure
Potential for local industry integration
Additional applications lodged to cover extra targets
DAguilar [...]
Rusian Mining Exploration Company, Russia’s Norilsk Nickel Stretches From Arctic to SA, US to Australia
In July 2007, a Canada-domiciled mining company was acquired by a Russian group for $5,2-billion. That company was LionOre, and it had assets in Southern Africa – an 85% share in Tati Nickel, in Botswana, and a 50% stake in Nkomati Nickel, in South Africa.
LionOre’s buyer was the giant Russian mining and metallurgical group, OJSC [...]
Grants looks to reclaim title of “Uranium Capital of the World”
It might have been the tombstone for an industry.
The neatly inscribed chunk of rock 25 miles north of Grants marks the final resting place of about 7 million dry tons of tailings – the finely crushed radioactive leftovers of extracting uranium from rock – from the mill site at Ambrosia Lake.
It’s meant as a warning [...]
BHP seeks to build £170bn mining superpower
Rio Tinto confirms biggest takeover move since dotcom boom.
The world’s largest mining group, BHP Billiton, is seeking to take over its rival Rio Tinto in a deal that would catapult it to a market valuation of about $360bn (£170bn), bigger than Microsoft and equivalent to the gross domestic product of Ukraine.
After weeks of market rumours, [...]
Golden Cycle Gold Corporation joint venture with AngloGold Ashanti
Golden Cycle Gold Corporation is pleased to announce the completion of the Mine Life Extension Pre-Feasibility Study at the Company’s 33% owned joint venture with AngloGold Ashanti (Colorado) Corporation, the Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company (”CC&V”). The successful completion of the study moved the mine life extension project into the formal feasibility [...]
Far East Energy Obtains Extended Exploration Periods and Expands Drilling Program
Far East Energy Corporation (Nachrichten) (BULLETIN BOARD: FEEC) announced that it has received the final approval by the Ministry of Commerce in China of three Modification Agreements that extend by two years the exploration periods of each of its three Production Sharing Contracts (”PSC”).
Two Modification Agreements with China United Coalbed Methane Corporation Ltd. (”CUCBM”) and [...]
Why Investors Should Be Interested in Shale Oil
Energy investment swings on the end of a clockwork pendulum. Oil prices high? All the alternative energy sources get funded. Oil prices low? It can wait.
With the continuing unrest in foreign oil producing countries and crude oil prices hanging around the $70/barrel mark, we’re on the investment part of the swing, and it looks like [...]
