Riverstone Completes Acquisition of Seajacks International

January 21, 2010 Filed Under: Mining Services, Mining Stocks, Oil and Gas  
Riverstone Completes Acquisition of Seajacks International

Riverstone Holdings LLC’s most recent renewable energy fund has successfully completed its previously announced acquisition of Seajacks International, for a total cash consideration of US$207 million. Seajacks is now wholly-owned by Riverstone and the management team. Seajacks currently owns and operates two self-propelled jack up vessels out of Great Yarmouth in the United Kingdom: the Seajacks... 

White Mountain Test Work Succeeds in Recovery of Feldspar From Rutile Flotation Tailings

January 21, 2010 Filed Under: Mining Services  
White Mountain Test Work Succeeds in Recovery of Feldspar From Rutile Flotation Tailings

White Mountain Titanium Corporation reports that it has successfully completed flotation test work to recover feldspar from natural rutile (titanium dioxide) flotation tailings. The test work program was carried out at SGS Lakefield (“SGS”) in Ontario, Canada. The aim of the program was to produce a low iron, feldspar concentrate from waste stream tailings acceptable for possible use... 

Nevada Company Introduces First Scalable Dry Recovery System For Lode And Placer Ores

January 9, 2010 Filed Under: Mining Services  
Nevada Company Introduces First Scalable Dry Recovery System For Lode And Placer Ores

After years of research, development, and testing, AU Goose, a mining service company in Reno, Nevada, has unveiled a solution to a long-time industry problem for junior and mid-level mining operations: How to extract and test heavy metal ores using a timely, cost effective, and dry method of recovery. AU Goose’s technology is the industry’s first modular, dry, non-toxic recovery system for both... 

Exploration for Rubies, Gold and Marble in Cambodia

December 8, 2009 Filed Under: Mining Investment, Mining Services, Precious Metal  
Exploration for Rubies, Gold and Marble in Cambodia

Terra Energy & Resource Technologies, Inc., a natural resource exploration services technology company, announces that the Company completed two projects for gold, rubies and marble exploration in Cambodia utilizing its innovative proprietary technology STeP®. Both service contracts were awarded to Terra by The Millennium International Group, LLC, which has subsequently requested the Company... 

Great Western Minerals Group Engages Barr Engineering to Update Hoidas Lake Technical Report

October 22, 2009 Filed Under: Lithium Mining, Mining Services  
Great Western Minerals Group Engages Barr Engineering to Update Hoidas Lake Technical Report

Great Western Minerals Group Ltd. announce it has engaged Barr Engineering Company (“Barr”) of Minneapolis Minnesota to update the 43-101 Technical Report for the Company’s Hoidas Lake Project. Barr is an employee-owned engineering and environmental consulting company involved with the development, management, and restoration of natural resources. With more than 40 years of experience... 

Fleming Gulf’s Global Mining Technology Forum 1st -2nd March 2010, Dubai -UAE

October 11, 2009 Filed Under: Lithium Mining, Mining Services, Oil and Gas  
Fleming Gulf's Global Mining Technology Forum 1st -2nd  March 2010, Dubai -UAE

There is a real need of a highly modified technology for the mining industry today. Being an informational economy, we recognize the increasing availability of information given to us through various resources. On the other hand, we now have tools to enable us to garner great value from that information quite readily. New information products can better inform decision processes. As businesses are... 

Lara Exploration Ltd.: Independent Review and Technical Report Completed on the Sao Lourenco Tin Project

September 28, 2009 Filed Under: Lithium Mining, Mining Investment, Mining Services  
Lara Exploration Ltd.: Independent Review and Technical Report Completed on the Sao Lourenco Tin Project

Lara Exploration Ltd. to report that Anglo Latina Consultores S.A.C., of Lima, Peru (“Anglo Latina”) has completed a positive and independent review of the Company’s Sao Lourenco tin project in Rondonia State, northwest Brazil. Anglo Latina has also prepared a Technical Report on the project to NI 43-101 standards, entitled “THE SAO LOURENCO TIN PROJECT, RONDONIA STATE, BRAZIL”,... 

Great Western Technologies Inc Receives DARPA Contract to Develop Aluminum-Based Structural Metal Alloys

Great Western Technologies Inc Receives DARPA Contract to Develop Aluminum-Based Structural Metal Alloys

Great Western Minerals Group Ltd. announce that its US-based, wholly-owned subsidiary, Great Western Technologies Inc, (“GWTI”) of Troy Michigan, has been awarded a US $110,000 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract to develop a set of aluminum-based high strength alloys. These alloys are a new class of materials that exploit the complex metal compounds that can be formed... 

Gryphon Gold Corporation: Design and Construction Schedule Progressing for Borealis Oxide Project

September 17, 2009 Filed Under: Lithium Mining, Mining Investment, Mining Services  
Gryphon Gold Corporation: Design and Construction Schedule Progressing for Borealis Oxide Project

Gryphon Gold Corporation provide a progress update for the proposed development of its wholly owned Borealis Oxide Project in the Walker Lane Belt of western Nevada. - Negotiations are under way for the final price and construction schedule of a turnkey Absorption, Desorption and Recovery (“ADR”) plant that will incorporate the most advanced technology for the adsorption, desorption and... 

Western Lithium Commences Additional Drilling in Nevada to Support Long Term Lithium Carbonate Production

September 9, 2009 Filed Under: Lithium Mining, Mining Investment, Mining Services  
Western Lithium Commences Additional Drilling in Nevada to Support Long Term Lithium Carbonate Production

Western Lithium Corporation has commenced drilling on the Stage II clay lens of its Kings Valley, Nevada lithium property. The purpose of this drilling is to determine if additional years of National Instrument 43-101 compliant mine life can be added to the proposed project. According to the original Chevron data, the Stage II lens is approximately seven times larger than Stage I lens, so only a portion...