Depleted uranium is the material remaining after removal or depletion of the U-238 isotope. With a density about twice that of lead, depleted uranium is ideal for use in military armor and munitions.
But now John Pierce Wise Sr. and colleagues at the University of Southern Maine have discovered depleted uranium dust produced in combat [...]

U3O8 Corp. is pleased to announce positive results from the first two holes of its 16 hole Phase I, 2,400 meter drill program in the Aricheng Area, located in Permit Area A, Guyana, South America. The initial results are encouraging and confirm uranium mineralization identified by Cogema in the early 1980’s. Results of note are [...]

ALUMINA’S shares were up nearly 4 per cent yesterday after its international partner, Alcoa of the U.S., made a $32.5 billion bid for its main competitor, Alcan of Canada.
If the Alcoa bid is successful - and analysts were yesterday resurrecting the idea that both Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton were possible spoilers who could well [...]

Residents of Port Loko district are reported to have wept bitterly after receiving shocking news from the Project Manager and Chief Geologist of the Port Loko Bauxite Project, Ebo Bakker that they are suspending operations in Sierra Leone as a result of the non-renewal of their exploration license.
The Port Loko Bauxite project is managed by [...]

The Yukon Utilities Board has given the Yukon Energy Corp. one week to renegotiate a tentative power deal with the owners of the Minto copper mine that the board says could affect ratepayers.
Regulators with the board, which regulates energy sales in the territory, ruled in a decision dated April 30 that the proposed power purchase [...]

More than 300 people are expected in Kellogg Wednesday to mark a somber day in North Idaho history.
Thirty-five years ago, fire exploded deep inside the Sunshine Mine, killing 91 people.
The Miner’s Memorial Committee has invited anyone affected by that tragedy to a ceremony Wednesday morning at the memorial statue off Interstate 90.

Vancouver’s Finning International Inc. has sold 19 of its 400-ton Caterpillar 797B mining trucks, below, valued at more than $100 million to Albian Sands Energy Inc., operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands Project’s Muskeg River mine.
Three of the trucks were added to the Muskeg River fleet in the first quarter, and the other 16 are [...]

The federal government gave its approval Monday for the reopening of an oil-shale mine in Utah, one of the experimental works intended to boost domestic oil production on Western lands.
A top-ranking Interior Department official signed off on the project, and officials said an Alabama-based partnership, Oil Shale Exploration Co., would be offered a lease to [...]

Jinchuan Group Ltd, China`s biggest nickel producer, has renewed interest in a joint venture to reopen the Nonoc nickel mine in southern Philippines and has even improved its offer, the trade secretary said on Wednesday.
“They had sent another offer which is an improvement of where there were before the talks collapsed,” Peter Favila told Reuters [...]

Xstrata Plc said on Wednesday a government bill being introduced in Australia would validate its proposed redevelopment of the McArthur River zinc mine.
An Australian court on Monday ruled against a A$110 million ($92 million) redevelopment of the mine over a glitch in the approval process after a challenge by local landowners.
Swiss-based Xstrata said it had [...]