Centius Gold has planned a survey of the Orara Valley and Dorrigo on the New South Wales mid-north coast this week. The aerial survey conducted by Thomson Aviation will be looking for gold deposits. Centius is focusing on exploring old goldfields that date back to the mid 1800s.
By Joel Scanlon
13 Jul 2011
In Fayette County, Georgia there is concern over mountain-top removal at the Frasure Creek Open Fork No.2. Environmental protection groups, such as members of the Mountain Health and Heritage Association, protested outside the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) offices in Charleston on Tuesday.
By Joel Scanlon
13 Jul 2011
Hewlett Packard (HP) is making it easier for the Minerals and Mining Group (MMG) to communicate in-house in a multi million dollar IT transformation. When MMG took over OZ Minerals it had two infrastructure backbones. Then adding to the confusion was the fact that OZ Minerals had been formed by merging Oziana and Zinifex.
Despite the impending doom being spelled out by analysts against the mining tax and carbon tax, the coal industry in Australia has projects worth $15.9 billion under construction. There is also the hope that by the financial year 2015-16 exports of coal will be up by 60%.
By Joel Scanlon
13 Jul 2011
Guinness Exploration has proclaimed that its partner Ansell Capital has commenced the summer drilling program at the Charlotte project in the Mount Nansen area, Yukon.
By Joel Scanlon
13 Jul 2011
Foundation Resources and Alto Ventures declared the completion of initial three drill holes from the northwestern Ontario-based Sanders zone of the East Coldstream gold deposit.
By Joel Scanlon
13 Jul 2011
CuOro Resources has encountered high-grade copper mineralization through a shallow drilling program at its Santa Elena Copper-Gold Project in Colombia.
By Joel Scanlon
13 Jul 2011
Red Eagle Mining has proclaimed the beginning of diamond core drilling at the Santa Rosa project, Colombia. The two drill rigs will complete a minimum of 10,000 m during 2011.
By Joel Scanlon
13 Jul 2011
Condor Petroleum has successfully completed the primary flow test of the Shoba-3 appraisal well. The location of the Shoba-3 well is in Kazhakstan on the Zharkamys West 1 contract territory.
By Joel Scanlon
13 Jul 2011
Riverstone Resources has announced additional drilling results from its Karma Project in Burkina Faso, West Africa.
By Joel Scanlon
13 Jul 2011
Zone Resources has entered into a diamond drilling contract to conduct drilling at its Nunavik district, Northern Quebec-based Labrador Trough iron properties.
By Joel Scanlon
13 Jul 2011
Stillwater Mining Co is to acquire the Canadian company Peregrine Metals for $450 million. This will allow Stillwater Mining to diversify into copper and gold as the Vancouver based Peregrine Altar owns a copper/gold project in the San Juan province in Argentina.
By Joel Scanlon
12 Jul 2011
Gina Rinehart said that the international competitiveness of Australia would be impaired by the proposed mining and carbon taxes. The iron ore heiress was speaking on the sidelines of the Boao Forum for Asia business conference in Perth.
By Joel Scanlon
12 Jul 2011
The Western Australia Premier Collin Barnett told Asian and Australian businessmen that the state was going to become the world’s leading mining economy within a decade. Speaking at the Boao Forum For Asia (BFA) business conference in Perth he also mentioned that Western Australia (WA) would be the largest or at least second largest producer of liquefied natural gas (LNG) by 2020.
By Joel Scanlon
12 Jul 2011
A phosphate mine in central Florida has seen production shut down by order of a federal judge. At Mosaic Co. there are plans to appeal the decision. The Plymouth based fertilizer company is amongst the world’s top fertilizer producers.
By Joel Scanlon
12 Jul 2011