Search Results
Antioquia Gold Drilling Colombian Assets
Colombia has emerged as a prolific source of new gold deposits during the last several years, and Antioquia Gold Inc. is the latest TSX Venture listed company to begin exploration there. Antioquia controls a 100% interest in 6 mining concessions covering a total of 279 hectares (Guayabito) and a 90% interest in 2 additional [...]
Two Mining Companies Begin Construction New Underground Sage Creek Mine in West Routt
Peabody Energy and TwenÂtymile Coal Co. could begin construction on the new underground Sage Creek Mine in West Routt County as soon as 2010, a company spokesman said last week.
SNS Silver Signed LoI With Premium Exploration To Develop and Explore Gold Mine in Idaho
SNS Silver Corp. is pleased to announce that it has entered two Letters of Intent with Premium Exploration, to jointly develop and explore two Central Idaho Gold Projects, Buffalo Gulch and Friday/Petsite.
Australian Govern. Needs Better Plan Target Mining Exploration and Mining Jobs
The West Australian Government needs a more targeted approach to mining redundancies after the loss of 6022 jobs in the past five months, the state opposition says.
Mining Exploration Regulation Alaskans to Vote on Mining Regulation Proposal
Alaskans in the primary election will vote on Ballot Measure 4, an initiative that opponents say will kill large-scale mining in Alaska but supporters say will save Bristol Bay’s wild salmon streams from a toxic spill at the Pebble Mine.
Supporters of Ballot Measure 4 say it is needed to protect the world’s most productive wild [...]
Profit-taking takes triple-digit bite from TSX; N.Y. markets mixed
The Toronto stock market was down more than 150 points Monday afternoon as traders took some profits from last week’s strong gains.
“There’s really no other explanation out there for the weakness,” said John Stephenson, portfolio manager at First Asset Funds. “I do believe that the resource theme will continue.” American indexes were mixed, lifted in [...]
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 [...]
CBM drillers wait to get back into the field
The floor was swept clean and the shop unusually tidy and quiet, except for the tinkering of Clinton Eubank and Jeff Dickirson. In the sunlight of an open bay door, they made adjustments to a shifting mechanism tightly locked in a vise.
“We rebuilt some draw works, rebuilt some brakes. We’re trying to get stuff repaired [...]
