Mesa Uranium Corp. is pleased to announce commencement of drilling at its 100%-owned Lisbon Valley project in San Juan County, Utah. Bob Beeman Drilling Company of Moab, Utah has been selected as the drilling contractor and Jet West Geophysical Services of Farmington, New Mexico will provide drill hole logging services. Drill programs have been designed […]

Nationwide, the average price for a gallon of gasoline has fallen since last month, but in Utah and the West, costs are up.
AAA of Utah reported Tuesday that the average price of regular, self-serve gasoline in Utah is $3.25 per gallon. That’s 4 cents higher than last month. Nationwide, the average price is $3.07, or […]

Richmont Mines Inc. (”Richmont Mines”) and Mountain Lake Resources Inc. (”Mountain Lake”) have commenced the next phase of exploration work on the Valentine Lake Gold property, located in Central Newfoundland. As outlined in the National Instrument 43-101 compliant technical report (Jan. 2005), the Valentine Lake property has inferred mineral resources of 1.3 million tonnes grading […]

Utah Uranium Corp. (the “Company”) is pleased to announce the acquisition of a 100% interest in approximately 112 mineral claims, consisting of 2,075 acres in the San Rafael Mining District, Utah, herein known as the “Family Butte” property (the “Property”). The Property is located in the San Rafael Swell area of East Central Utah.
The Property […]

GLOBAL gold producer AngloGold Ashanti was aggressively seeking ways to compensate for its expected production decline at current operations after four to five years, chief operating officer for Africa Neville Nicolau said on Friday.
Speaking during a conference call on the group’s March quarterly results, he said projects under consideration included deepening Moab Khotsong and Mponeng, […]

Mesa Uranium Corp. is pleased to announce plans for the 2007 drilling program at its projects in Utah and Arizona. Drill programs have been designed for the following target areas and drilling permits have been obtained for several of the targets. Drilling planned for 2007 includes:
Lisbon Valley Project (100% owned, Utah)

Gulf Western Petroleum Corp. (the “Company”) is pleased to announce that Messrs. Arden McCracken, Ph.D, and Tim Altum have agreed to join the Company’s Board of Directors, and that Mr. Paul Moase has agreed to serve as a financial advisor to the Company’s Board of Directors.
Mr. McCracken has over thirty years reservoir engineering experience; holds […]

CROWFLIGHT MINERALS INC. (Crowflight, the Company) (TSX VENTURE:CML - News) is pleased to announce that the Company has signed a contract agreement with Dumas Contracting Ltd. (Dumas), as the general contractor for the rehabilitation of the underground workings at the Bucko Deposit and underground development as the Company advances the project towards production.
Thomas Atkins, President […]

When the last coal mine in Yubari closed down in 1990, city elders thought pumping tax money into an amusement park, hall of fossils, ski resort and robot museum would keep this remote snowbound town of 13,000 people afloat and on the map.
More than a decade and a half later, Yubari is still in the […]

After 20 years of isolation, Libya has become the destination of choice for hungry oil companies ready to cut any kind of deal to get a piece of the north African state’s oil riches.
“It’s a race for our black gold,” president of the National Oil Company Shukri Ghanem told AFP. “We are organising it like […]