CanAlaska to undertake uranium exploration with Chinese mining partner

CanAlaska Uranium Ltd. announce that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with East Nickel Mining Inc. to undertake joint exploration for uranium on its 100%-owned North East Wollaston Project. As outlined in the MOU, ERI may earn a 40% interest in the Project by undertaking a minimum of 100,000 metres of diamond drilling within 5 years. ERI may earn a 70% interest in the Project by undertaking... 

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Vena Resources Expands Management Team and Implements Shareholders Rights Plan

Vena Resources Inc. announce that Jose Roberto de Romana Letts has joined the Vena Board of Directors and Silvia Dedios Villaizan has been promoted to Vice President, Corporate Development based in Lima, Peru. Mr. de Romana Letts is a member of a well known and respected family involved in the mining industry in Peru. He has worked in the Peruvian mining industry for many years in senior management... 

Diversified Ethanol A Division of Originally New York Completes Sectional Testing of Pilot Plant

Diversified Ethanol, A Division of Originally New York, Inc , has powered up its pilot plant, one piece at a time, successfully completing sectional testing. Tanks, lines, bioreactors, pumps, columns, and motors have all been approved for use. New explosion-proof wiring has been added to the distillation section, and a new water treatment center has been installed. The tanks and plumbing are now being... 

12 months after Sago mine explosion, coal industry still changing

Many of the safety measures state legislatures and Congress rushed to adopt to protect the 46,000 people working in the nation’s underground coal mines after the Jan. 2. Sago Mine explosion have yet to take effect. There are still no rescue chambers or wireless tracking and communications equipment in the country’s 606 underground coal mines, and it’s unlikely there will be until... 

Rancher Energy Secures CO2 for Enhanced Oil Recovery via Supply Agreement With Anadarko Petroleum

Rancher Energy Corp. announced the execution of an agreement with Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (“Anadarko”) to procure the supply of carbon dioxide (CO2) for the Company’s enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects. Rancher Energy intends to use the CO2 in the Big Muddy, Cole Creek South, and South Glenrock B fields it plans to acquire in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. The Company... 

New nickel projects behind schedule and way over budget

The comments reported here a month ago from Vanessa Davidson pointing to the unreliability of production targets being met for new High Pressure Acid Leach (HPAL) nickel laterite processing plants in the article Medium term outlook for nickel: supply increases may outstrip demand growth but ”¦ was borne out in spades in this past week . The companies behind the two largest HPAL process plants... 

Uzbekistan to Start Supplying Low-Enriched Uranium for Japanese Power Stations in 2007

Uzbekistan will start supplying low-enriched uranium for Japanese power stations in 2007, a uranium mine chief said in remarks broadcast Friday. About 300 tons of low-enriched uranium will be exported in 2007 to Japan via trading company Itochu Corp., Nikolai Kucherskii, the director of the state-owned Navoi mining complex, said in televized comments. In late August, former Japanese Prime Minister... 

Western Wind Energy Corp. – Site Acquisition Strategy for California

Western Wind Energy Corporation has reviewed the wind energy marketplace across the United States and has determined to seek new wind energy development opportunities in California. The strategy is focused at 30 sites totaling over 1,200 Megawatts. With the passage of SB 107 (Senate Bill 107) in the California Legislature and the subsequent execution by Governor Schwarzenegger making SB 107 law, California... 

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Oil Giants Put Energy Into Other Resources

Inside two half-million-gallon tanks built in the 1950s, a team of microorganisms is preparing to munch its way into the annals of energy innovation. Late this month, the microbes will start transforming truckloads of restaurant grease into electricity for a water pollution control plant in Millbrae, Calif. The one-of-a-kind setup relieves the city and area eateries of a fatty disposal headache while... 

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Asia Energy skips earnest money defying mining rules

The government is evaluating the feasibility report submitted by the Asia Energy Corporation despite its non-payment of about Tk 210 crore as earnest money”” a prerequisite for the deal””during applying for mining licence. Experts, involved in the evaluation, have termed it illegal and said, ” Such a preference to a foreign company is being given for the first time and for unknown...