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 of Noble’s business plan, specifically the processing, smelting and refining of precious and base...
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 reduce mercury emission. Mercury is a neurotoxin affecting child and infant development. According to...
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 m of 0.754 g Au/t) in core hole BHM-001. Newcrest’s drill program aims to vector into higher-grade...
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. Also, it will provide additional metallurgical information on the rare and exotic metals that have...
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 pioneered at the Company’s laboratory at the University of Utah’s Research Park. This further verification...
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 provide for the Four Corners region, and equally important the Navajo Nation, by granting the air...
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 of unparalleled achievement for the Keystone State’s environment and economy,” said John Hanger,...
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 better fuel economy than four- and five-speed automatics, Ford said. Ford is aiming to cut vehicle...
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 Worksheet and its review process, a more basic procedure. “If the recommendation goes forward...
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.
Pacific Energy Development and Blast Energy Services Sign Merger Agreement
Pacific Energy Development Corp. (“PEDCO”), a privately-held oil and gas company engaged...
Silvore Fox Updates Progress on Winston Lake and Coxheath
Silvore Fox is pleased to announce that they have received the results of the Geotech Ltd VTEM...
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