Great Western Minerals Group Updates Activities

Great Western Minerals Group Ltd. is pleased to provide an update of its unique “mine-to-market” strategy to become a fully integrated explorer and global supplier of rare earth elements (“REE’”) and other strategic metals. The Fundamentals of the Rare Earth Sector Remain Strong: The world demand for REE continues to accelerate while China, the primary supplier of REE,... 

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Push to Build Coal-To-Liquid Fuel Plant in Illinois Advances

Peabody Energy Corp. has pledged nearly one million tons of coal a year and up to $10 million in development funds to an Illinois plant planners say would become the nation’s first to commercially turn coal into liquid fuels for tomorrow’s big-rig trucks, buses, barges or jets. St. Louis-based Peabody, as part of the deal announced this week, also gets an option to buy a 20 percent stake... 

Zambia mining boosted by copper demand

Surging global demand for copper has breathed new life into the mining industry in Chingola, a short drive from the Congolese border on top of some of the richest copper deposits in the world. Zambian miners clad in white helmets and blue jumpsuits are building a $300-million (about R2,1-billion), high-tech copper smelter at Konkola Copper Mines, right next to one of the largest open pit copper mines... 

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Medicine Bow Fuel & Power LLC Announces Agreement to Sell Diesel From Its Planned Medicine Bow Coal-to-Liquids Facility

Medicine Bow Fuel & Power LLC, a subsidiary of DKRW Advanced Fuels LLC, announced today that it has entered into a long-term contract to sell 100% of the ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel from its planned coal-to-liquids (CTL) facility in Medicine Bow, Wyoming, to Sinclair Oil Corporation, which will market the fuel in the Rocky Mountain region. The planned Medicine Bow project, which includes a coal... 

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Zimbabwe: Hwange Doubles Coal Output

HWANGE Colliery Company Ltd (HCCL) has doubled daily coal production at its opencast and underground mines, and is now looking at renewing exports since the arrival of new mining equipment in the last quarter. Coal output at the opencast mine has risen by 100 percent to 10 000 tonnes per day while that from the underground mine has also doubled from an average 800 tonnes daily to 1 600 tonnes. This... 

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An end run on ethanol

As President Bush promotes ethanol as a green alternative to gasoline, his administration is quietly relaxing environmental rules for dozens of new corn-to-fuel refineries sprouting up across the nation. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is planning to change the way ethanol plants are treated under the Clean Air Act, a move critics say could make it easier for the burgeoning industry to evade... 

EPA Relaxing Environmental Rules for Ethanol Plants

As President Bush promotes ethanol as a green alternative to gasoline, his administration is quietly relaxing environmental rules for dozens of new corn-to-fuel refineries sprouting up across the nation. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is planning to change the way ethanol plants are treated under the Clean Air Act, a move critics say could make it easier for the burgeoning industry to evade... 

Bauxite workers laid off by Omai pessimistic about a September restart

Workers in Linden laid off by Omai Bauxite Mining Inc (OBMI) for two months because of the competition from cheap bauxite produced by China are pessimistic about the chances of the company restarting operations in September and consequently of rehiring them. News that the company was seeking investors to buy into operations was not a cause for optimism as far as the workers were concerned. They still... 

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