The Supreme Court dealt a setback to the utility industry Monday, supporting a federal clean air initiative aimed at forcing power companies to install pollution control equipment on aging coal-fired power plants.
In a unanimous decision, the justices ruled against Duke Energy Corp. in a lawsuit brought by the Clinton administration, part of an enforcement effort [...]
U.S. Energy Corp. a natural resources exploration and development company with interests in molybdenum, oil and gas, and real estate assets, today announced that its partner, Houston Energy, L.P. (“HE”) has advised the company that an initial production test from the Stoddard #1 well (first well drilled with HE) in Southeast Texas resulted in approximately [...]
ECU Silver Mining inc.
-A new raise in the “San Mateo” vein cut 12.42 g/t Au (0.40 oz/t) and 6,068 g/t Ag (195 oz/t) over 0.30 meter (1 foot);
- Higher assays than previously obtained for the A1, A2, A3 and A4 veins of the Santa Juana mine;
- Increase in quantity of veins and veinlets [...]
Mitsubishi Corp., Japan’s largest trading company, and Murchison Metals Ltd. agreed to jointly develop a A$3 billion ($2.5 billion) iron ore project in Australia amid soaring demand for the steelmaking ingredient.
The two companies want to build a port, railroad and develop the Jack Hills mine in Western Australia state, Tokyo- based Mitsubishi said in a [...]
The U.S. government won’t recommend changes in the way coal companies deal with electrical storms until its own report on the Sago Mine disaster in West Virginia is done.
Mine Safety and Health Administration director Richard Stickler said Thursday he hopes that report will be finished during the first quarter of 2007. But Stickler also said [...]
Bard Ventures Ltd. has retained CCM Corporate Advisory, a division of Cronus Capital Markets Inc. (CCM), to assist the company with information-based strategies to increase market efficiencies and overall liquidity.
The services to be provided by CCM will include the production of various forms of research coverage through CCM Research (a division of Cronus Capital Markets), [...]
Brooks Range Petroleum Corporation says it’s drilling an exploratory well this winter on the North Slope. The small Anchorage-based firm says it wants to confirm an oil accumulation just north of the giant Prudhoe Bay field that had been tested in 1974. The company says a drilling rig began work on the North Shore Number-One [...]
HudBay Minerals Inc. announced that it will re-start operations at its Chisel North mine and concentrator in Snow Lake, Manitoba effective immediately, with full production expected in the second quarter of 2010. The re-start of operations at Snow Lake is expected to provide approximately 30,000 tonnes of zinc concentrate feed to the company’s Flin Flon [...]
AMT International Mining Corporation
The directors of AMT International Mining Corporation, Dale G. Smith, Dora Santschi and Karine Simoes announce that, effective today, they resign their position as officers and directors of the Corporation.
AMT is a mineral exploration and development company.
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Radisson Mining Resources Inc. is pleased to report on the diamond drilling program currently in progress on its O’Brien / Kewagama project located immediately west of the Wood / Pandora property of Globex / Queenston and 6 km west of the Agnico-Eagle-Lapa deposit.
Four diamond drill holes, KW06-12 to KW06-15, of the Radisson’s planned 4000 meter [...]