Mercury Mining

U.S. Canadian Minerals, Inc. Secures Permits For Processing Plant

U.S. Canadian Minerals, Inc. announces that the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Noble Technologies Corp (“Noble”), has secured both a Building Permit and a temporary Business License from Storey County, Nevada (the “Permits”). The Permits allow Noble to commence the assembly of the equipment that is essential to the efficient execution... 

ICL-Industrial Products Announces Merquel(TM), a New Product Line to Reduce Mercury Emissions From Coal Fired Plants

ICL Industrial Products (ICL-IP) is launching Merquel(TM), a new product line for reduction of mercury emissions from coal fired power plants, kilns and incinerators. The Merquel(TM) product line is based on ICL-IP’s line of inorganic bromides tailored specifically to be applied in various proprietary technologies developed in recent years to... 

Drilling Begins on Miranda Golds Horse Mountain Project

Miranda Gold Corp. announces that Newcrest Resources Inc., Miranda’s exploration funding partner, has commenced the 2008 drill program at the Horse Mountain project. Newcrest has permitted 13 drill sites and anticipates drilling up to 20,000 ft (6,096 m). The drill program will follow up drilling that intersected 98 ft of 0.022 oz Au/t (29.9... 

Gold Canyon Resources Inc.: Drilling at Cordero Gallium Project

Gold Canyon Resources Inc. announce an additional Reverse Circulation (RC) drilling program to be conducted at the Company’s Cordero Gallium Project in Nevada, as part of ongoing preparation for preliminary feasibility work. The drill program is designed to follow up and further test newly defined structurally controlled exotic metal anomalies.... 

MIPSolutions, Inc. Announces Selectivity Results for Molecularly Imprinted Ionomer (MII) Beads

MIPSolutions, Inc., a Nevada corporation with offices in Spokane, WA, today announced that third-party laboratory analyses has verified that the Company’s recently developed MIP (Molecularly Imprinted Polymer) bead has successfully separated gold from a gold cyanide solution loaded with mercury without also removing mercury. The MIP bead was first... 

ACCCE Statement Regarding Passage of Air Permit for the New Mexico Desert Rock Power Plant

The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity today issued the following statement in response to the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) passage of an air permit for the proposed Desert Rock power plant: “ACCCE is pleased that the EPA has recognized the tangible environmental and economic benefits the Desert Rock project will... 

PennFuture Lauds Kathleen McGinty as Trailblazer for Pennsylvanias Environment and Economy

Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future (PennFuture) heralded Secretary of Environmental Protection Kathleen McGinty as a trailblazer for Pennsylvania’s environment and economy and a truly transformative leader. PennFuture’s comments came as McGinty announced her intention to leave office on July 18, 2008. “Secretary McGinty has created a record... 

Ford significantly boosts 6-speed transmission output

Ford Motor Co. said it will double the number of six-speed automatic transmissions produced by the end of the year, and expects to install the more fuel-efficient gearboxes in 98 percent of its North American vehicles by 2012. The transmissions, which will debut in 2009-model Ford Escape and Mercury Mariner crossover vehicles, offer 4 percent to 6 percent... 

More scrutiny for Agassiz Energy LLC ethanol plant; MPCA to recommend more stringent EIS

Plans to build an ethanol plant near Erskine have suffered another setback, with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency set to recommend that the project, proposed by Agassiz Energy LLC, complete a detailed Environmental Impact Statement before proceeding further. The recommendation comes as a result of the project’s 70-page Environmental Assessment... 

Report warns of long-term consequences from Sierra gold mining

A Sierra Nevada community foundation says too little is known about the long-term health effects of mining during the state’s Gold Rush era. The nonprofit Sierra Fund released a report Tuesday calling for an immediate assessment of state and federal land so mining waste can be cleaned up.