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Chevron Selects OTI’s EasyFuel as its Petroleum Payment and Automated Fuel Management Solution

On Track Innovations Ltd, (OTI) today announced that Chevron Corporation , has chosen OTI to be the provider of its EasyFuel petroleum payment and automated fuel management system. EasyFuel provides oil companies with the ability to sign long term contracts with fleets, assuring the correct grade and amount of fuel is dispensed into an [...]

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Construction underway for new coal fired plant in Lamar

The Lamar City Council and Lamar Utilities Board were updated this week on the status of the coal repowering project by Lamar Light and Power Superintendent Rick Rigel.
According to Rigel, the sub-structure contractor, Industrial Constructors/Managers began moving into the area on July 17 with excavation work starting on July 24 for phase one of the [...]

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Coal’s comeback stirs pollution fears

Coal is making a comeback.
In an industrial corner of South Jersey, on a 300-acre parcel of land on the Delaware River, a company has negotiated for the last two years to build a $1 billion coal-burning electric plant that could juice 500,000 homes.
It is one of 150 coal-burning power plants on drawing boards around the [...]

Drilling Commences at Atna’s Clover Project

Atna Resources Ltd. has been informed by Yamana Gold Inc. that it has commenced a second round of drilling on Atna’s Clover project in Elko County, Nevada. Yamana’s program at the Clover project will include up to 10 reverse circulation rotary drill holes (8,000 to 9,000 feet) to follow-up the encouraging gold and silver results [...]

OCI to build solar power plant in Egypt

Egypt’s Orascom Construction Industries signed an EGP 604 million (US$ 109 million) contract with the New and Renewable Energy Authority (NREA), a subsidiary of the Egyptian Ministry of Electricity, for the construction of new 62MW Integrated Solar Combined Cycle Power (ISCC) Plant in Kuraymat, Egypt.
The scope of work under the contract includes all civil work [...]

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SNS Silver Clarifies Status of Sunshine Mine in Idaho

SNS Silver Corp., an exploration mining company, whose assets include a number of near term production projects in geopolitically secure Idaho, USA remains confident of its long-term goal to operate the legendary Sunshine silver mine near Kellogg, Idaho, adjacent to SNS Silver’s Crescent silver mine. A lease of the mine held by Sunshine’s former operator, [...]

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Contract awarded for Trimble County coal plant

Mitsui Babcock Energy Ltd. has won a $100 million contract to build a clean-coal power plant in Kentucky.
The West Sussex, England-based company, which has its American headquarters in Atlanta, is partnering with the No. 1 power-plant builder the United States, Bechtel Group, to build the $1-billion-plus facility, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle, a sister [...]

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Thring Creek Project

Highlights
· Thor completed 50 RAB holes for 1433m covering nine aeromagnetic targets;
· Drilling intersected a combination of magnetic rocks with low metal values, no magnetite Skarns were detected by the RAB program.
Thring Creek Project – Exploration Summary
Thring Creek is located about 24km east of the Molyhil Project. The area is generally flat, but is dissected [...]

Vena Resources Expands Uranium Drill Program in Lagunillas

Vena Resources Inc. announce that after extensive radiometric and magnetic surveys in the Timpacaya area, several additional uranium targets have been identified.
Ongoing exploration activities have resulted in the discovery of new targets in the Timpacaya area where spectrometer/scintillometer radiometric surveys have identified areas with counts per second (CPS) values averaging 934 and the anomalies appear [...]

Thomson Reuters Launches Base Metals Market Community

Thomson Reuters today launched a web-based, interactive community that brings comprehensive information, research, analysis and professional networking tools to the global base metals marketplace. Thomson Reuters Metals Insider went live today at www.communities.thomsonreuters.com/basemetals with a community of approximately 6,700 professionals. Metals Insider is aimed at equipping the global base metals marketplace with the tools to [...]