Afri-Can Marine Minerals: Diamond Sampling Vessel Departs Cape Town

Afri-Can Marine Minerals Corporation a Canadian company, actively involved in the acquisition, exploration and development of major mineral properties in Namibia has been informed by International Mining and Dredging Holding Ltd. (IMDH) that the contracted diamond sampling vessel MV DP The Explorer has left Cape Town, South Africa, for the port of Walvis Bay in Namibia. IMDH will then conduct deep... 

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Talon Metals Granted Rights to New Potash Exploration Licences

Talon Metals Corp., announce the granting of two new exploration licences for potash and to provide an update on the Sergipe Potash Project located in Sergipe State, Brazil. In a news release dated May 25, 2009, the Company announced the acquisition of the Sergipe Potash Project and immediately commenced a detailed review of the available technical data. Subsequently, Talon submitted an application... 

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African Queen Mines Abandons Braganza Gold Project in Mozambique to Focus on Priority Targets

African Queen Mines Ltd. announces that it has provided formal notice of abandonment to Bobcat Mining Limitada with respect to the Braganza Gold Project in Mozambique. The Company has the right to earn up to a 75% interest in the Project pursuant to the Letter Agreement dated August 17, 2007, between Pan African Mining Corp., predecessor to the Company, and Bobcat, as amended on October 4, 2007 and... 

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Hyperdynamics’ Executives to Attend 15th Africa Oil Week in Cape Town, South Africa

Hyperdynamics Corporation announced that top executives from the Company are attending the 15th Africa Oil Week being held next week in Cape Town, South Africa. This is Africa’s premier international event operated by Global Pacific and Partners. It is the world’s largest and most significant exploration and development event on Africa for the global oil exploration and gas-LNG industry. The event... 

Rockwell Granted New Prospecting Permits in Area of Existing Operations

Rockwell Diamonds Inc. reports on eight new prospecting permits granted by the South African Department of Minerals and Energy (“DME”). These new prospecting permits are located in the Middle Orange River area in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa, and include a number of permits which are adjacent to the Company’s Wouterspan and Saxendrift operations. Lanyonvale Project:... 

Architectural award for Alcan Composites in Singen

Alcan Composites, part of Alcan Engineered Products – a business unit of Rio Tinto Alcan – received the 2008 BEX Award in the Best Use of Architectural or Structural Design category, using ALUCOBOND® for the modernization of a housing scheme in the Scharnhorst district of Dortmund, Germany. “It is an honour to receive this significant award,” said Markus Gross, president, Architecture... 

Zimbabwe: Oil Price Hampers Efforts to Contain Inflation

South African Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni said the price of oil is unlikely to drop any time soon, hampering efforts to contain inflation and adding to pressure for higher interest rates. “On the inflation picture, what is of serious concern is that it doesn’t seem like oil prices are going to be of assistance to us for a while,” Mboweni told lawmakers in Cape Town yesterday. “Things... 

Author explores town and its mine fire

Nearly a half-century after it began, the voracious mine fire that doomed this coal town in the mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania continues to burn hundreds of feet underground, uncontrolled and uncontrollable. The fire began in 1962 at the town dump and ignited an exposed coal vein, eventually forcing an exodus that emptied Centralia of more than 1,000 people, nearly its entire population. Almost... 

Midwest Has ‘Coal Rush,’ Seeing No Alternative

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa – From the top of a new coal-fired power plant with its 550-foot exhaust stack poking up from the flat western Iowa landscape, MidAmerican Energy Holdings chief executive David L. Sokol peered down at a train looping around a sizable mound of coal. At this bend in the Missouri River, with Omaha visible in the distance, the new MidAmerican plant is the leading edge of what... 

Chinese mine explosion kills 15

Fifteen miners were killed in a gas blast at a coal mine in central China’s Hunan province, state media said Thursday. Miners were carrying out maintenance underground when the blast struck, it said. Seventeen miners escaped. The explosion occurred Tuesday morning at Hongfa Coal Mine in Niumasi town, Shaodong county, Xinhua news agency reported, citing officials at the rescue headquarters. Damaged...