A grant of $7,983,107 has been awarded to remediation projects by the Department of Environmental Protection. The projects include the abandoned mine locations in Somerset, Schuylkill, Luzerne and Clearfield.
By Kalwinder Kaur
31 May 2012
On May 16, 2012, the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) and Boston Common Asset Management, the Investor Environmental Health Network (IEHN) announced that 55 leading investors with roughly $1 trillion in assets under management have joined hands to back up "best practices" for the fracking of shale gas.
By Will Soutter
31 May 2012
Gold and precious metals exploration company, Daulton Capital has signed a contract to purchase Grimsby Investments and its subsidiaries that comprise two Australian firms focusing on the ARX Springs Gold project. This project is situated in the Wide Bay Burnett Region of Queensland, Australia.
By Joel Scanlon
31 May 2012
PetroFrontier has reported that Ensign's Rig 918 is now being mobilized to the MacIntyre-2 well site, situated in EP 127’s northeast corner in Southern Georgina Basin of Northern Territory. Ensign drill equipment is expected to be onsite by early June 2012. The company may resume operational activities at the Southern Georgina Basin during June, 2012.
By G.P. Thomas
31 May 2012
Force Majeure, which has been enforced since 21 February 2011, has been lifted by BP with respect to the company’s Libyan Exploration and Production Sharing Agreement (EPSA) signed with the National Oil Corporation (NOC), which was effective from 15 May 2012.
By G.P. Thomas
31 May 2012
Black Iron has announced further assay results from the company’s definition and exploration (DE) diamond drilling carried out at its Shymanivske iron ore project located in Ukraine.
By G.P. Thomas
31 May 2012
On an interview with FutureMoneyTrends.com, Dr. Gerald Bailey said that the price of oil will not be cheap in future.
By Kalwinder Kaur
30 May 2012
The International Fuel Quality Center (IFQC) has declared that Top 100 countries have been ranked based on their limited use of sulfur in on-road diesel and identified that 44 countries can boast that their on-road diesel fuel is the world’s cleanest fuel.
By G.P. Thomas
30 May 2012
Fire tests were carried out on a simulated North Sea “problem platform”, because of which SINTEF NBL developed a unique laboratory module in-house, which will improve standards for fire protection at sea. SINTEF NBL is the Norwegian Fire Research Laboratory.
By G.P. Thomas
30 May 2012
Victoria Gold, an emerging gold producer, has announced additional drill results from its reconnaissance campaign at its Eagle Gold Deposit located in Yukon Territory, Canada.
By G.P. Thomas
30 May 2012
Midlands Minerals has announced the drilling results of its 1,995 m diamond drilling program at Kaniago West and Mmooho targets located in Kaniago Gold Project in Ghana. The drilling was completed on March 8, 2012.
Cadan Resources has provided a detailed update on drilling at Bayag Bayag site at Comval copper-gold project in Philippines. The Comval Project is maintained and operated by Philco Mining Company, which also holds exploration permits for Comval properties.
By Joel Scanlon
30 May 2012
Cobriza Metals has declared that a high resolution helicopter-borne magnetic survey has been completed over the Arikepay project and the company is likely to begin the drill program on the project by early June.
By G.P. Thomas
30 May 2012
La Ronge Gold has announced that it has obtained the results from the confirmation sampling program carried out by Cameco at the Preview SW Deposit, located in North Saskatchewan, Canada during 1998.
By G.P. Thomas
30 May 2012
According to a new research report published by Reportlinker.com, the global nickel output increased 10% year-on-year (YoY) to 1.589 Mt in 2011 due to the VALE’s OnçaPuma and Anglo American’s Barro Alto nickel projects put into production and an enhanced output of nickel pig iron in China.
By G.P. Thomas
29 May 2012