On behalf of Hyperdynamics, AGR Peak Well Management (AGR) has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Jasper Drilling of Singapore to engage the drill ship Jasper Explorer for drilling at Hyperdynamics' concession offshore area, the Republic of Guinea.
By Joel Scanlon
16 Apr 2011
Integra Gold has reported the latest drilling results from the No. 5 Plug at its Lamaque project, situated 250 metres northeast of the analogous vein structure.
By Joel Scanlon
16 Apr 2011
Sun River Energy has commenced production at the Neal Heirs # 1 well on March 31, 2011. The Neal Heirs # 1 well is perpendicularly drilled to 11,057 feet of total depth in Panola County, Texas.
By Joel Scanlon
16 Apr 2011
Vantex Resources has commenced a new drilling program at Moriss discovery, situated in the western part of the Galloway project and 500 metres west of the GP zone.
By Joel Scanlon
16 Apr 2011
Lions Gate Metals has released the results of drill holes 11-PC-86 and 11-PC-87 from the 2011 drilling program at the Poplar project.
By Joel Scanlon
15 Apr 2011
Black Iron has begun a preliminary confirmation diamond drill program at its Shymanivske iron ore project in Ukraine. The drilling program consists of the operation of three drill rigs to finish 7,500 metres of drilling in about three months.
By Joel Scanlon
15 Apr 2011
ECU Silver Mining has announced the high-performance deep hole diamond drill position that turned up at the Velardeña Property on March 23, 2011.
By Joel Scanlon
15 Apr 2011
Silver Dragon Resources has announced that its 40% equity owned joint venture, Sanhe Sino-Top Resources and Technologies, has started permitted exploration for this year at its three properties in Northern China.
By Joel Scanlon
15 Apr 2011
ESM Refiners, a subsidiary of Casey, has started due diligence to buy the properties for exploration and mining at the Oriental area in Paraguay.
By Joel Scanlon
15 Apr 2011
Australian miners seem to be working ‘high’ on a drug similar to cannabis. The substance called Kronic is marketed as, “the closest thing to legal weed on the market”. Made in New Zealand, Kronic can be bought legally and is undetectable via on site drug tests.
By Joel Scanlon
14 Apr 2011
Oz Minerals has announced a 2% rise in first quarter of copper production. From the Prominent Hill mine the company output 25,708 tonnes of copper in the quarter, this is higher than the 25,185 tonnes of copper in the previous quarter.
Junior Canadian miner Pacific Iron Ore is looking at selling strategic assets to help boost its share price. The company has hired financial advisory firm AltaCorp Capital Inc to help them identify and evaluate alternatives that would enhance its shareholder value.
By Joel Scanlon
14 Apr 2011
Whitehaven Coal Ltd is an Australian coal mining company that put itself up for sale last October. Whitehaven says that a number of parties have submitted formal proposals for the company and it is now in discussion with a number of these parties to determine which proposal is likely to be recommended by the board of directors.
Physics of Geological Processes (PGP) is a Norwegian Center of Excellence with the mission to obtain a fundamental and quantitative understanding of the complex patterns and processes of the Earth. PGP has a major initiative to understand the deformation of and transport in tight rocks. This has applications to hydrocarbon source rocks, gas and oil extraction from shales and CO2 sequestration.
At this year's AAPG show, Carl Zeiss and Ingrain Inc. announced a further strengthening of their collaboration. With the purchase of an additional AURIGA® CrossBeam® FIB-SEM workstation, Ingrain has broadly increased its capacity for analysis of shale rock properties at the pore scale.