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Xcite Energy Announces Amendment to Rig Contract with British American Offshore

News - 7 Feb 2012

Xcite Energy, a fully owned subsidiary of Xcite Energy Resources, has announced that its existing rig contract with British American Offshore, a subsidiary of Rowan Companies has been amended. The...

C+C Energia Updates on Operations at Cachalote-1 Well

News - 7 Feb 2012

C&C Energia has completed and examined the Neme Formation that is located in the Cachalote-1 well in Colombia. The well will be abandoned. Neme sandstone was intercepted for 271 ft in the...

BAEconomics Report Shows Benefits of Automation Technology in Mining Industry

News - 7 Feb 2012

According to the new research, the mining industry gets a world-first technology for the miners’ safety and better health, enhanced ecological benefits and usage of energy, and production...

Aspire Mining Continues Exploration at Ovoot Coking Coal Project

News - 12 Oct 2011

Aspire Mining is successfully continuing the exploration program at the Ovoot coking coal project. It has identified a formerly anonymous coal seam structure region for some 4 km to the north-east...

Switch Off Coal Stages Protest at Bacchus March

News - 19 Sep 2011

The environmental group ‘Switch Off Coal’ is staging a protest at the Bacchus March located west of Melbourne. The conservation group is unhappy about the brown coal testing that Mantle...

Uranerz Energy Starts On-Site Construction at Nichols Ranch ISR Uranium Mine

News - 3 Aug 2011

Uranerz Energy has started on-site construction of its Nichols Ranch in-situ recovery (ISR) Uranium Project, which is situated in Wyoming’s Central Powder River Basin in U.S.A. The company...

Condor Petroleum Completes Testing of Shoba-3 Appraisal Well

News - 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. An...

Whiting Oil and Gas Purchase Automated Petrography System from FEI

News - 26 May 2011

FEI (NASDAQ: FEIC) and Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation, announce the purchase of QEMSCAN® automated petrography and Helios NanoLab™ DualBeam™ technology for Whiting’s new rock...

Lago Dourado Minerals Signs Agreement with Geomin to Buy Flagship Gold Project

News - 30 Mar 2011

Lago Dourado Minerals has signed an agreement with Geomin to purchase the remaining 16 exploration licenses that were before under option, at its flagship gold project Juruena, Brazil. Now, Lago...

Gold Resource Begins Arista Underground Ore Processing

News - 18 Mar 2011

Gold Resource announces the production conversion and beginning of processing the La Arista underground ore. Gold Resource is a low-cost gold producer in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico. The...