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Homeland Energy Holds Official Ceremonies for Kendal Mine Opening, South Africa

Homeland Energy Group Ltd., in conjunction with Homeland Energy & Mining, SA, held grand opening ceremonies for the Kendal Colliery yesterday at the Kendal site, approximately 90km east of Johannesburg earlier this week.
Following a tour of the mine and plant sites, as well as the new housing community Homeland has built for local residents, Deputy [...]

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Old drive-In could become gas drilling site

The old Fort Worth Twin Drive-In off of Interstate 30 might soon become a gas drilling site.
Dallas-based natural gas producer Dale Resources, which has been actively drilling in the Barnett Shale, has purchased land along I-30 at Riverside Drive near downtown that once housed the Fort Worth Twin Drive-In theater decades ago.
The company says it [...]

Anglogold eyes uranium potential in Australia

Booming uranium prices could tempt Anglogold Ashanti Ltd. , the gold mining arm of Anglo American , into uranium exploration in Australia, a company executive said on Wednesday.
Anglogold, which already mines some uranium as a by-product from gold mines in South Africa, was looking at the potential for yielding uranium from the Tropicana gold prospect [...]

Quaterra Commences Drilling at Big Bar

Quaterra Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:QTA) today reported that drilling has commenced at the company’s Big Bar copper-lead-zinc prospect on the Seward Peninsula of northwest Alaska. The 1,500-foot (450 metres) drilling program contracted by Diamond Drilling Consultants of Sterling, Alaska is targeting a 4,000-foot (1,200 metres) long soil anomaly located 110 miles northeast of Nome. The [...]

Thunder Mountain Gold Announces an Intercept of Sulfide Mineralization at Their South Mountain Property

Thunder Mountain Gold, Inc. announced that Thunder Mountain Resources, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary, has completed their first core hole in its planned exploration program at their South Mountain Mine, Owyhee County, Idaho. The hole (DMEA 2) encountered a zone of mineralization from 656 feet to 705 feet with approximately 40 feet of the core [...]

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Hydro to Use Pressure-Balanced Drilling at Grane

Norsk Hydro Produksjon AS (Hydro) has secured consent to carry out production drilling using pressure-balanced drilling technology from the facility on the Grane field.
Pressure-balanced drilling is a form of rotation drilling in which the weight of the drilling mud column is reduced and the pressure at the top of the well is controlled using a [...]

Diamonaire Now Wholly Owned by Pinnacle

Pinnacle Resources, Inc. announced that it has taken over 100% ownership in Diamonaire (Pty) Limited effective as of July 1, 2006. Since inception of the joint venture, Diamonaire has been owned equally by Ocean Options, a South African closed corporation represented by Chris Wilson, inventor and operator of the AquaWalker technology. Mr. Gamble, President [...]

Advanced Explorations Inc. Extends Option to Earn 70% Interest

Advanced Explorations Inc. announce that it has agreed to extend the deadline to exercise the Company’s option to earn up to a 70% interest in the Roche Bay, Nunavut project with Roche Bay Plc.
Under the Extension Agreement the Company will pay Roche Bay $200,000 by September 8th, 2008 and maintain its rights to exercise its [...]

Effort to save giant mining shovel for museum fails

The world’s last operating stripping shovel will be sold for scrap after a group of citizens and public officials failed to raise enough money to preserve the massive machine for a coal mining heritage museum.
The 7,000-ton Silver Spade has sat dormant in rural Harrison County near Cadiz since April, after its rotating base was disabled. [...]

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East West Resource Corporation-Eva Kitto Platinum Property Optioned

East West Resource Corporation has entered into an option agreement with International Bethlehem Mining Corp. whereby International Bethlehem has been granted an option to earn an initial 30% interest in East Wests Eva Kitto platinum group element (“PGE”) property located north-northeast of Thunder Bay, Ontario (the “Property”). The Property consists of 15 staked claims [...]

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