Native American Energy Group, Inc. , a publicly traded, independent oil & gas exploration, development, and production company is pleased to announce the successful enhancement, reactivation, and completion of its first two oil wells.
NAEG field operations have resulted in the successful revitalization of the Tribal 7-A and COX 7-1 wells located on the Fort Peck [...]

BHP Billiton Ltd., the world’s biggest mining company, may say fiscal second-half profit jumped to a record because of rising copper and iron ore prices.
Net income probably increased to $6.34 billion for the six months ended June 30 from $3.45 billion a year earlier, according to the median estimate of five analysts surveyed by Bloomberg [...]

Metro Gold Mines Mineral Resources Inc., is a growing gold mining company engaged in the acquisition and development of production properties in South and Central America.
Mr. Jairo Giraldo, C.E.O. of the Company held meetings with members of local and provincial governments in relation to the future direction of Metro Gold Mines Mineral Resources.
“It is extremely [...]

Robert L. Cotton, President & C.E.O. of Cotton & Western Mining, Inc. , today released ground magnetometer survey data maps for the 36 million metric ton Lapa-ao and the 12 million metric ton Nagsabongan magnetite iron deposits at its Pacific Pearl Mining Complex on Mindoro Island, The Republic of the Philippines. The company is studying [...]

Gold traded near a one-week high as investors sought haven investments on speculation Iran will today formally refuse to suspend its uranium-enrichment program.
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said yesterday Iran “has made up its mind on the nuclear program,” the Iranian Student News Agency reported. President George W. Bush warned of “consequences” should it refuse [...]

Far East Energy Corporation announced that it has signed a contract to begin drilling its fourth horizontal well in the Shouyang Block of its Shanxi project in early September 2006. This next well, the FCC HZ04, will be drilled horizontally with a total target length in the No. 15 coal seam of approximately 800 meters. [...]

An international team of research scientists has reported greater knowledge of how gas hydrate deposits form in nature, subsequent to a scientific ocean-drilling expedition off Canada’s western coast. A natural geologic hazard, gas hydrate is largely natural gas, and thus, may significantly impact global climate change. The research team, supported by the Integrated Ocean Drilling [...]

Jadoo Power Systems Inc., the leading supplier of portable fuel cell power systems, announced today that General Atomics, Space Power Division has awarded Jadoo a contract to develop an advanced fuel canister for use with hydrogen fuel cells.
Using Jadoo’s N-Stor intelligent digital fuel interface, the new fuel canister utilizes an advanced chemical hydride derived from [...]

Exeter is a technically-advanced, Canadian gold exploration company, focused on the discovery and development of epithermal gold-silver properties in Argentina and Chile.
Currently, four drills are operating at its advanced La Cabeza gold project as a key component of project development activities that include engineering, metallurgical, hydrological, and environmental studies.
In the prospective, Patagonia region of Argentina, [...]

Cerro Puntudo, like the Cerro Moro and Verde Silver projects, is one of a number of promising epithermal gold-silver properties held under Exeter’s strategic agreement with Cerro Vanguardia S.A. (CVSA), an AngloGold Ashanti subsidiary.
At Puntudo, five zones of gold-silver mineralization hosted in veins and breccia bodies have been discovered to date. These bodies are aligned [...]