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Guinea strike halts CBG bauxite shipments – Alcoa

January 23rd, 2007

Guinea’s general strike has halted all shipments of bauxite from the world’s biggest bauxite exporter, Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinee (CBG), its operator Alcoa Inc. said on Monday.
Company officials in the West African country, the top bauxite exporter, had previously said ship loading operations could continue for around a week using security stocks, but Alcoa [...]

Jinchuan offers more for nickel mine

May 3rd, 2007

Jinchuan Group Ltd, China`s biggest nickel producer, has renewed interest in a joint venture to reopen the Nonoc nickel mine in southern Philippines and has even improved its offer, the trade secretary said on Wednesday.
“They had sent another offer which is an improvement of where there were before the talks collapsed,” Peter Favila told Reuters [...]

American Creek announces $1,250,000 private placement offering

March 27th, 2009

American Creek Resources Ltd. announced that it will be offering on a non-brokered private placement basis up to 1,000,000 units at a price of $1.25 per Unit for gross proceeds of $1,250,000 if the Offering is fully subscribed. Each Unit will consist of four flow-through common shares of the Corporation along with one [...]

60 tons of coal tar spill into China river

June 16th, 2006

Cleanup crews in northern China were scrambling Thursday to absorb 60 tons of toxic coal tar accidentally dumped into a river before it reaches a reservoir serving 10 million people, state media said.
The incident occurred Monday when a truck carrying the coal tar fell into the Dasha river in Shanxi province, the official Xinhua News [...]

Serica Energy submits Columbus Field Development Programme

October 14th, 2008

Serica Energy plc as operator of UK Block 23/16f has submitted the Field Development Programme (“FDP”) for the Columbus field in the UK Central North Sea to the UK government.
In December 2006 Serica announced the discovery of the Columbus gas-condensate field with well 23/16f-11. The well was tested at a rate of 17.5 million cubic [...]

Philex Gold Receives Interim Order for Transaction With Philex Mining Corporation

March 17th, 2010

Philex Gold Inc. announced that it has obtained an interim order from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Commercial List) with respect to the Company’s previously announced Plan of Arrangement with Philex Mining Corporation (“PMC”) and PMC’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Philex Gold Holdings Inc. (“PGHI”) (see press release dated February 25, 2010).
Pursuant to the Plan of [...]

Egypt launches major gold mining drive

January 25th, 2007

Egypt has signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at restructuring the gold mining sector, which officials predicted could bring in more than 10 billion dollars and reshape the country’s economy.
The MoU was signed by Oil Minister Sameh Fahmy and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private arm of the
World Bank group, to replace old mining [...]

EPA rules it has jurisdiction over potential uranium mine

February 10th, 2007

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached a decision on the Indian Country status of property owned by Uranium Resources Inc. (URI) near Churchrock, N.M.
The agency has determined that the property, called Section 8, is Indian Country and, therefore, it is under EPA’s jurisdiction to administer an underground injection control permit.
There has been a [...]

IPS Lands Barcelona Regasification Contract

September 29th, 2008

Invensys Process Systems (IPS), a global technology, software and consulting firm, announced that it has won a major contract to upgrade control and automation systems at a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal and regasification plant near Barcelona, Spain.
The site, at Barcelona Terminal, is one of three such facilities run by Enagas, Spain’s leading natural gas [...]

First Tonne of Gold Poured at Sabodala

May 23rd, 2009

Mineral Deposits Limited announce that over one tonne of gold (32,151 ounces) has been poured at the Sabodala Gold Mine in Senegal, west Africa since start-up of full production in early April. This milestone is a credit to the entire team at Sabodala.
The plus US$220 million project is now processing material above the nominal mill [...]