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Australia’s Grange receives approvals for Malaysian iron ore pellet plant

Grange Resources Ltd said it has been granted a manufacturing license and environmental approval by the Malaysian government for its 550 mln usd iron ore pellet plant at Kemaman.
It said the approvals represent significant milestones in the development of the 6.8 mln metric tons per year plant.
The project will process ore from the company’s Southdown [...]

Energy Partners in Takeover Talks

Independent oil and gas explorer Energy Partners Ltd. said Friday it is in talks with “interested parties” about the company’s possible sale.
Energy Partners said it will provide another update by mid-February, unless the process is completed sooner.
In November, Woodside Petroleum Ltd., Australia’s largest publicly traded petroleum company, said it would not extend for a third [...]

Industrial Info Releases New North American Coal-Fired Power Industry Wall Map

Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) is pleased to announce the release of the new North American Coal-Fired Power Plant Industry Wall Map. The map displays demographics on over 600 operating coal-fired power plants in North America. In addition to identifying utility scale power plants, the map also lists industrial power producing power plants at synthetic [...]

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Legal action fails to stop MacArthur River Mine expansion

The MacArthur River Mine expansion in the Northern Territory is going ahead, despite legal action from Indigenous traditional owners.
The lead and zinc mine near Boroloola has begun work diverting the MacArthur River for 5.5 kilometres to allow an open pit.
While the local Kurdanji people say the diversion will interfere with major rainbow serpent sites the [...]

Hornbeck Offshore May Sell Tug and Barge Business

Oilfield services company Hornbeck Offshore Services Inc. may sell all or part of its stake in its downstream tug and tank barge unit.
The company hired JP Morgan Securities Inc. to help it assess various options for the division, which may include a possible sale, adding to the business through acquisitions or consolidation and other possible [...]

Lundin Mining Corporation: Tenke Project Update

Lundin Mining Corporation is pleased to provide an update on the Tenke Fungurume Copper/Cobalt Project, in Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of Congo. Lundin Mining holds a 24.75% interest in Tenke Fungurume. The project is under construction by operating partner Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (“Freeport”). Upon completion of this first phase of Tenke development, the [...]

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SRA to Place MTZ Mining Complex on Care and Maintenance

Strategic Resource Acquisition Corporation announced that it will be initiating a temporary care and maintenance program at its wholly-owned Mid-Tennessee zinc mining complex (MTZ).
The decision follows an extensive evaluation of numerous scenarios and zinc pricing projections that leave little support for the continuation of operations under the current commodity pricing and credit market environments. Since [...]

National Coal to Buy West Virginia Surface Mine for $60 Million

National Coal Corp. said Monday it agreed to buy a West Virginia surface mine for about $60 million plus debt in a move that would “significantly increase” the company’s production and expand its operations eastward.
National Coal said the properties include 18 million tons of reserves on about 4,000 acres. The operations include a coal load-out [...]

Basehor company gets permits for ethanol plant

Ethanex Energy Inc. said Monday that it had received environmental permits needed to begin construction of an ethanol facility in southeast Missouri.
Permits for the 132 million-gallon-per-year ethanol production plant came from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Ethanex said in an announcement. The state body would have to complete a technical review of the plant’s [...]

Liberty Star and NPX Metals Enter Revised Agreement on Gold-Silver Nevada Property

Liberty Star Uranium & Metals Corp. announces that it has signed an agreement to sell its option land at the Providence Project to NPX Metals Inc (“NPX”). The option land, adjacent to land already held by NPX, is believed to host commercially relevant quantities of disseminated gold and silver in Nevada’s historic Beatty Mining District.
The [...]