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Schlumberger profit tops view, shares up

Schlumberger Ltd., the world’s largest oilfield services company, said on Friday its fourth-quarter earnings rose 71 percent on a strong performance in its seismic business and forecast “significant” growth in 2007.
Income from continuing operations rose to $1.13 billion, or 92 cents per share, from $660 million, or 54 cents per share, a year earlier.
The earnings [...]

Lonrho Mining finds huge yellow diamond

Lonrho Mining has discovered an exceptional 61.30 carat yellow diamond at its Schmidtsdrift Mine in South Africa.
The huge stone is a fancy yellow perfect octahedron and is expected to yield a high value, said Lonrho Mining, which is 23% owned by Aim-listed Lonrho.
‘This diamond is of extremely high quality and is expected to achieve a [...]

Governor urged to stop new coal plant

Environmental groups warn of new pollution if state permits coal-burning plant in Early County
To make their point, they stood along River Street with a large inflatable coal power plant with smokestacks bearing labels such as “acid rain” and “mercury poisoning.”
A few tourists gathered nearby as representatives from three Georgia-based environmental groups called on Gov. Sonny [...]

Milner Announces Grant of Stock Option

MILNER CONSOLIDATED SILVER MINES LTD. announces that options to acquire a total of 111,000 common shares of Milner at an exercise price of $0.25 per share expiring on October 16, 2013 have been granted to 3 directors of Milner. Each director is entitled to 37,000 common shares. The market price at close of previous day [...]

Financial data mining vital in war against terrorism, say Treasury officials

The Bush administration yesterday defended its data mining of financial transactions in a program aimed at tracking down financing of terrorist activities. The program, Bush officials said, does not amount to invasion of privacy of Americans.
Treasury Secretary John Snow, while decrying the program’s disclosure by some newspapers, said the surveillance of banking data was ”government [...]

Dia Bras Announces Private Placement of $2.0 Million

Dia Bras Exploration Inc. announces a non-brokered private placement for a total consideration of $2.0 million. Subject to regulatory approvals, the Company will issue 25,000,000 units at $0.08 per unit. Each unit is composed of one common share and one purchase warrant. Each warrant entitles the holder thereof to subscribe to one common share of [...]

Gazmetall Holding Limited Announces the Acquisition of 32,708,799 Shares of Nautilus Minerals Inc.

In accordance with regulatory requirements, Gazmetall announced that on August 20, 2008 it acquired ownership over 32,708,799 common shares of Nautilus which were transferred pursuant to a memorandum of agreement dated 21 June 2007 as amended with effect as of 4 October 2007 (the “Agreement”). The Nautilus Shares represent approximately 22.3%(1) of the issued [...]

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All Eyes on Rail Companies to Efficiently Deliver Coal to the Nation’s Growing Coal-Fired Power Plants, an Industrial Info News Alert

Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas). Rail companies have struggled to debottleneck existing coal rail lines as a coal hungry nation cries out, but are they doing enough?
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Crowflight Acquires Additional Ground Near Historical Producer in Thompson Nickel Belt, Manitoba

CROWFLIGHT MINERALS INC. is pleased to announce that it has acquired additional property adjacent to the former producing Manibridge Nickel Mine in the central portion of the Thompson Nickel Belt, approximately 15 kilometres south of its Bucko Lake Nickel project, currently under development.
Crowflight has added approximately 83 square kilometres (32 square miles) to its [...]

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URI studies conventional uranium mining in NM

Uranium Resources Inc. will conduct feasibility studies on three old uranium mine sites it owns in Crownpoint, Nose Rock and Roca Honda in northwestern New Mexico to determine if conventional mining would be profitable.
HRI Energy Inc., the New Mexico subsidiary of Texas-based URI , owns 183,000 acres of local mineral holdings. It is planning to [...]