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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 [...]
Trinity Mining Holdings Repoerted Discovery Potential Gold-Silver Mineralized in Chicama Gold Mining District
Trinity Mining Holding AG is pleased to announce that recent drilling, trenching and other exploration works have led to a gold-silver discovery potentially very important on its Caupar project located East of the coastal city of Trujillo in Northern Peru, more precisely in the well known Alto Chicama gold mining district (Barrick) in the department [...]
petroleum producers adjust to lower prices for oil, natural gas
Less can be more, at least in the view of independent petroleum producers grappling with how to adjust their operations to plunging natural gas and crude-oil prices.
In the past two weeks, energy producers have issued a near-uninterrupted string of improved third-quarter earnings announcements.
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 [...]
Control oil well-ness and gas
Ailing residents believe nearby oil and gas drilling is to blame for their conditions, but proof of any link remains elusive.
Dry Hollow – Dee Hoffmeister awoke at 3 a.m. early in March with her head spinning. The oversized red numbers on the alarm clock were a blur. She couldn’t get out of bed without her [...]
Peru Stocks Gain as Economy Lifts Builders Over Mines
Domestic growth is turning Peru’s mining-dominated stock market into the Americas’ best performer this year even as the prices of zinc, gold and copper remain below last year’s peaks.
The Lima General index has surged 181 percent in the past 12 months, driven by companies such as Grana y Montero SA, Peru’s biggest builder, and industrial [...]
Mining Manpower Crisis
There is a manpower crisis in the form of a skilled worker shortage that is having an adverse impact on the mining industry. Whatever one is interested in, be it gold, silver, platinum, uranium, base metals, or other mining operations, this situation is impacting on all forms of mining. It will influence the way investors [...]
Copper extraction left a toxic pool in Butte, but some see a source of tourism and cures
This land was once “the Richest Hill on Earth.” Home to vast mineral wealth, Butte was one of the most storied mining towns, providing one-third of the nation’s copper for the dawning electric age more than a century ago.
Today that hill has a hole, a toxic abyss framed by a gash where the land [...]
Nautilus set to make ocean mining a reality
The notion of mining the ocean floor for minerals has always carried the whiff of the fantastical.
A massive ship once commissioned by the CIA to raise a sunken Russian submarine was constructed under the guise of being a deep-sea mining vessel owned by the reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes.
Others, including Inco Ltd., spent nearly half-a-billion dollars [...]
