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Barrick Gold Plans Double of Gold Production in Nevada Gold Mine Delayed
Gold mining exploration company, Barrick Gold Corp. was forced to postpone in order to double the production of gold from gold mines in Nevada. Postponement of plans double gold production in Nevada because it permits the environmental impact that is owned by Barrick Gold was sued by the American Indian community.
The state’s Shoshone tribes claim [...]
Mine Development by Barrick Gold Temporarily Halt, Waiting Analysis Environments Results
Barrick Gold Corp.’s expansion of a Nevada mine must be halted until the federal government completes an environmental analysis to comply with an appeals court order, American Indian tribes said today.
An appeals court in San Francisco on Dec. 4 ordered U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks in Reno, Nevada, to limit production from the mine pending [...]
Atna Increases Gold Resources at Briggs Mine
Atna Resources Ltd. reported an increase in gold resources at its Briggs Mine, Inyo County, California, based on a recently completed mineral resource estimate. The updated estimate incorporating recent drilling has resulted in an increase in Measured and Indicated gold resources by 11% to approximately 678,815 contained ounces of gold (0.006 oz/ton gold cut-off). Additionally, [...]
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 [...]
Gold Mining Exploration Near Juneau, Alaska Case
A mining company and the state of Alaska had asked the justices to take the case. At issue is a challenge by environmentalists to the planned dumping of tailings from gold mining into 23-acre Lower Slate Lake in the Tongass National Forest.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a permit for the dumping after the [...]
State looks at treatments in $1.8 million effort to stop acid flow into Belt Creek
State mining regulators plan to reopen the historic Anaconda-Castner mine near Belt next month to look for water leaks, marking the beginning of a renewed effort to stop one of the most persistent cases of harmful acid drainage in Montana.
The sprawling abandoned mine 300 feet below the surface, once a prolific producer of coal, is [...]
Uranium Funds Points to Near-Term U3O8 Price Decline
Nuclear Market Review [NMR] editor Treva Klingbiel reported in this week’s issue, “Two sellers that were evaluating bids in response to their auctions have concluded their evaluations and have decided not to sell at this time.” She added, “Both sellers preferred to make delivery in June while most bidders were seeking delivery for several months [...]
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 [...]
Study Finds 3 Forms of Mercury Exiting Nevada’s Largest Mines
Regulators announced Thursday that new monitoring at five of Nevada’s largest mines has shown three kinds of mercury are coming out of smokestacks, including a gaseous form that can find its way into fish.
The findings tell the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection what kinds of pollution control technology to require at the mines, said agency [...]
