Alcan has been named the industry champion for metals on Fortune Magazine’s “World’s Most Admired Companies” list in 2007, and was also ranked the top company in Canada. The Company ranked second out of the more than 1,000 largest global companies surveyed for its efforts in the community and the environment, and sixth for its [...]
Alcoa announced that its operations in Alcoa, Tenn., and Western Australia are featured in a new aluminum can documentary that is airing on the National Geographic Channel. “Man-Made: The Can” is a one-hour special that highlights all aspects of the aluminum can, including the aluminum manufacturing process, can sheet production, aluminum’s history and aluminum [...]
The Aluminum Corp. of China said Monday it expects to sign a final agreement on a US$2.2 billion bauxite mine and alumina refinery project in northeastern Australia’s Queensland by the end of March.
The company, the world’s second-biggest aluminum producer after U.S.-based Alcoa Inc., already had acquired “preferred developer” status for the Aurukun bauxite deposit.
Plans call [...]
On March 8, 2007, the shares of KOKO Petroleum, Inc. were suspended for a 10 day trading period by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. It is our understanding that the suspension relates to spam emails about the Company.
During the latter part of 2005 and early 2006, the Company was the subject of numerous [...]
Micron Enviro Systems, Inc. wishes to announce that management is currently looking into the possibility of participating in joint ventures on uranium properties. Micron is currently, and will continue to be, focused on the acquisition and development in the Alberta Oil Sands, however if a project of merit is deemed to grow shareholder value then [...]
There’s a saying in these parts: Where oil flows, a city grows.”
Yet more than just oil and gas is fueling a recent growth spurt for the southeastern New Mexico town, whose 2,700 residents have begun to feel the initial impact of a $1.5 billion uranium enrichment plant going up nearby. Situated on 640 acres just [...]
East Asia Minerals Corporation reports drill confirmation of a laterally extensive in-situ leach uranium environment at its 100% owned Ooshin Govi Property in southeast Mongolia. The drilling intercepted a thick sequence of uranium bearing sands and has validated the continuation of the same radiometric anomaly that extends south from the adjacent Compagnie Generale des [...]
Uranium Resources, Inc. announced it has requested a 15-day extension from the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to the filing of its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006. The Company requested the extension because it does not expect to complete the preparation of management’s assessment of internal [...]
Mineral salt deposits found on the surface of Mars by one of NASA’s Mars rovers may have been created by seeping groundwater rather than an ocean, scientists reported this week. Early in its mission, the Mars rover Opportunity found deposits of sulfur-rich evaporite minerals in the Meridiani Planum of the planet, which to scientists suggested [...]
Australia’s surging rates of mining and energy investment and record commodity prices pose a threat to inflation and are complicating the government’s budget plans, Treasurer Peter Costello said today.
“We’ve got to be very careful that the increased prices we’re getting for mining products, with the demand for construction we’ve got going at mining sites, doesn’t [...]
