Canadian Zinc Corporation reports that The Honourable Chuck Strahl, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Metis and Non Status Indians, on July 16, 2009 visited the Company’s Prairie Creek Mine site in the Northwest Territories. Minister Strahl was in the Northwest Territories, accompanied by The Honourable Jim Prentice, Canada’s Environment Minister...
American Petro-Hunter, Inc. views the recent price increases of crude oil as extremely positive news for both the economy and the Company. Last week, oil prices jumped to almost $58 a barrel thereby extending gains to near six-month highs on investor expectations that the global economic environment is beginning to grow and may begin to rebound before the end of the year. Oil has broken above the...
Platinum Equity announced it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase SCM Metal Products, Inc. from Gibraltar Industries, Inc. for an undisclosed amount. SCM is a global leader in the manufacturing and distribution of copper-based powder and pastes and copper oxide powders to a broad range of industries. “This is a very exciting time for all of us at SCM,” said Barton White, President of SCM....
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...
Gastar Exploration Ltd.’s neighborhood’s beautiful day, The post-person delivers, dogs bark, the sun sparkles and the coal beds are full of methane. Not only that, the next-door neighbors find a fortune under their backyard patio. Like the realtors say: location, location, location. Gastar, a natural gas explorer and producer operating onshore in the United States and Australia, has its...
EnerCom, Inc., announced today the lineup and schedule for The Oil & Gas Conference®, http://www.theoilandgasconference.com. In its 13th year, the Conference, held in Denver Aug. 10-14, is the oldest and largest energy investment conference hosted in Denver, showcasing more than 70 companies with a combined enterprise value of more than $500 billion. This premier forum offers institutional investors,...
With the rising price of oil, bicycle manufacturers are jumping on the electric bicycle bandwagon, exhibiting e-bikes and an e-bike test track at the Taipei International Cycle Show in Taipei this week to promote the use of the battery-powered bikes. The biggest bicycle show in Asia and third biggest in the world is also organizing the first-ever light electric vehicle (LEV) forum to discuss the potential...
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...
Donnie Lewis says he’d quit the coldest, dirtiest job he’s ever known — drilling in Canada’s oil-rich bogs for Suncor Energy Inc. — if it wasn’t for the free private room, maid service and five-course meals. “I wouldn’t do it if I had to share a room with six other fellows, all snoring and making a racket when you’re trying to get a few winks,”...
A mud volcano that inundated dozens of villages was probably triggered by commercial gas drilling, research published in a respected scientific journal shows, contradicting an Indonesian government minister who insists it was a natural disaster. It is “very likely” that the mud flow on the island of Java, which has spewed a million barrels of mud a day for eight months, is manmade, four...