Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. plans to curtail coal mining operations in its northern and southern Kentucky business units as continued market pressures and new regulations on coal-fired power plants make production from certain mines in those areas uneconomic.
AK Steel has received the Metallic "Supplier of the Year" award from Chrysler Group LLC. The award recognizes AK Steel for extraordinary performance in 2011, and positions AK Steel among an elite group of Chrysler'...
Canadian-based company, U3O8 has announced that a 20,000 m drill campaign is ongoing on the Berlin project in Colombia.
By Kalwinder Kaur
11 Jun 2012
Springdale, NL-based Cabo Drilling has received a contract from Silver Spruce Resources, a junior exploration company, to conduct 1,000 m of diamond drilling on Silver Spruce’s Big Easy gold/silver property located in eastern Newfoundland.
By G.P. Thomas
11 Jun 2012
Lake Shore Gold has declared the drill results of seven new holes at its Gold River Trend property.
By G.P. Thomas
11 Jun 2012
Cobriza Metals, a mineral exploration company, has reported that the company began the drill program at the Arikepay project on June 6, 2012.
By G.P. Thomas
11 Jun 2012
Collegiate teams at the Supermileage engineering competition by SAE International are the envy of many drivers as their hand-built competition vehicles can get up to 3000 mpg.
By Kalwinder Kaur
8 Jun 2012
FEI announced today that it has received multiple bookings for its “Core-to-Pore” petrography workflow and QEMSCAN® WellSite™ analysis solutions.
Equitable Gas, a provider of reliable and safe natural gas service in Allegheny County and Pittsburgh, and local McDonald's restaurants have teamed up for the second time for the Fueling Your Day With Love Campaign.
By Joel Scanlon
8 Jun 2012
United Silver Corp. is pleased to announce that on May 24, USC miners at the Crescent Mine Project broke through to the existing Big Creek #4 tunnel, a narrow, track tunnel dating back to the early 1920's. The miners had been driving the new trackless Big Creek #4 adit since late March and have advanced more than 700 feet in virgin ground. The breakthrough is a milestone in the plan of the Project to achieve commercial production by the second quarter of 2013.
U.S. Silver Corporation and RX Gold & Silver Inc. are pleased to announce the signing of a definitive agreement to combine the two companies by way of a plan of arrangement. The resulting company, to be called U.S. Silver & Gold Inc., will be a well-funded, growth-oriented precious metals producer with U.S. Silver's producing Galena mine in Idaho, RX Gold's producing Drumlummon mine in Montana and U.S. Silver's Coeur re-development projects in Idaho.
Tigris Uranium Corp. is pleased to announce that is has filed a National Instrument 43-101 Technical Report containing an updated resource estimate covering the Company's Crownpoint and Hosta Butte Project located ...
Energy pipeline sector controversies, including the Keystone XL Pipeline and Enbridge-Enterprise Products projects that will move heavy crude from Canadian tar sands to the U.S. Gulf Coast, are in the news and on the minds of many in the energy industry, environmental groups and the public at large.
Extractive industries in the oil and gas sector represent a growing market opportunity for companies with new water treatment technologies such as ThermoEnergy, CEO Cary Bullock said in reaction to a recent article in Environmental Finance magazine.
GFS Chemicals, Inc., a privately held specialty chemical manufacturer, today announced plans to expand its Columbus facility to manufacture Cerium intermediates to further back integrate its domestic production operations. Cerium has been in short supply due to China's restrictive policy on rare earth mineral exports.