AltiGen(R) Communications, Inc. a pioneering manufacturer of VoIP business phone systems and call center solutions, announced today that Canadian based Miramar Mining Corporation (Nachrichten) (TSX: MAE, AMEX: MNG) has deployed AltiGen’s VoIP Phone System at two locations to meet its multi-site voice over IP (VoIP) requirements and expansion efforts.
Miramar Mining Corporation is a gold exploration [...]

Canadian oil outfit Antrim Energy hit an all time best today as it announced that drilling has been completed on the Antrim-operated East Causeway well, UK North Sea, in which it has a 65.5% interest.
AIM-listed Antrim said the 211/23d-17z well has been cased for production and a testing program is expected to start later this [...]

Rising fuel prices that are a bane to consumers have been a boon to Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. and other manufacturers of helicopters that shuttle workers to and from rapidly multiplying offshore drilling rigs.
Between 2002 and 2005, commercial helicopter sales rose from about $100 million to $600 million for the Stratford, Conn.-based subsidiary of United Technologies [...]

Kim Harris, Chief Executive Officer of Midlands Minerals Corporation (”Midlands”or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the Company commenced a detailed Metal Mobil Ion (”MMI”) geochemistry program on the Itilima Project in Tanzania, in preparation for drilling in the fourth quarter of 2006. The work program is designed and supervised by Marc Boisvert P. Eng.
Midlands [...]

If the more than 150 coal-fired power plants being planned in the United States were built it would boost coal demand 30 percent and raise national emissions of gases thought to cause global warming by 10 percent, according to an advocacy group.
The United States is seeing a boom in plans for coal-fired generation plants as [...]

Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas). Rail companies have struggled to debottleneck existing coal rail lines as a coal hungry nation cries out, but are they doing enough?
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Coal is one of the most important, burgeoning industries in the Mudgee region with the existing Ulan Coal, Wilpinjong and Charbon mines as well as proposed mines for Moolarben, Bylong, Running Stream and Airly.
Coal mines in the Mudgee region are part of a larger belt of coal deposits stretching from the Queensland border through Moree, [...]

Mining group Altona Resources PLC said it has signed a memorandum of understanding with BP Australia Pty Ltd to jointly evaluate development opportunities for Altona’s Arckaringa coal project in South Australia.

South Africa’s Competition Commission has said that the proposed merger of Kumba Resources with Eyesizwe Coal might have anti-competitive consequences. “The Commission has concluded that given the prevalence of cross-directorships amongst Anglo, Eyesizwe Coal and BHP Billiton, co-ordinated market conduct being sustained post-merger is reasonably likely.”
Kumba’s parent, Anglo American, plans to split the company in [...]

Ninety-six people were working in the Shuidong Coal Mine in Hebei province’s Yuxian County at the time of the 5:30 a.m. (1930 GMT Sunday) blast, the official Xinhua News Agency said. It said 79 escaped.
The cause of the blast was under investigation but was likely caused by explosives, Xinhua said.
China has world’s most dangerous coal [...]