No posts found. Try a different search?

Random News from Mining Top News

Petris acquires Maurer drilling software suite

Petris Technology, Inc. has acquired the software and support assets of the Maurer Technology software owned by Noble Technology Services, a division of Noble Corporation, on June 30, 2006. Under the terms of the agreement, Petris will assume world-wide responsibility for the development, sales, service, and future development of the Maurer drilling and completion software. [...]

Alberta Star Featured on Global National TV-Currents Featuring “The Global Renaissance of Uranium”

Alberta Star Development Corp. is pleased to announce that the Company will be featured in a documentary hosted by Global National’s Kevin Newman on Saturday November 4, 2006 at 7 o’clock PM Pacific Standard Time. The documentary is called Somba Ke – The Money Place and features the Company’s uranium exploration work being conducted in [...]

Mining Rivals Increase Bids in 4-Party Fight

Four years after the leaders of the world’s eight largest economies vowed to raise $20 billion over 10 years to prevent terrorists from obtaining nuclear materials, only $3.5 billion has been donated — and far less has been used to secure enriched uranium, the key ingredient of a nuclear weapon.
Phelps Dodge, the Phoenix-based mining [...]

Dirty business of coal could get makeover

State regulators on Tuesday signed off on plans to build one of the nation’s first plants that would turn dirty coal into cleaner fuel, generating electricity while dramatically reducing smog and mercury pollution.
If built amid cornfields outside Taylorville, about 200 miles southwest of Chicago, the 630-megawatt plant would provide a lucrative boost to the state’s [...]

Arian Silver Corporation Completes Phase 1 of its San Celso Mine Evaluation

Arian Silver Corporation announces that it has completed the initial phase of underground sampling, surveying and geological mapping at its San Celso mine workings located in Zacatecas State, Central Mexico.
The San Celso project area covers a number of colonial-era silver mines and prospects, including the San Celso and Las Cristinitas mines. Past production focused on [...]

Unit Corporation to announce New Business Partnership for Mid-Stream Operations

Unit Corporation has recently reported to have announced that its mid-stream operations, through Superior Appalachian Pipeline LLC (Superior), has entered into a long-term business arrangement with Robert Eckle, President and founder of Appalachian Producer Services, located in McMurray, Pennsylvania. The two companies have agreed to jointly develop mid-stream pipeline projects which will be owned and [...]

High Court Rejects Attempt to Block BP Deal

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an attempt by victims of a deadly refinery explosion to block a plea deal between BP PLC and prosecutors.
The Supreme Court’s action means a federal judge in Houston can now decide whether to give final approval to the much criticized plea deal, which settles criminal conduct by the London-based oil [...]

Russia: Sensor Disabled Before Mine Blast

A disregard for safety in the interest of profit very likely caused the explosion in a Siberian mine last month that killed 108 people, the biggest mine disaster in Russia’s recent history, officials said. They said that the mine’s management deliberately disabled a methane detector, among other safety violations. A buildup of methane, sparked by [...]

Vangold Increases Land Position in West Nile, Uganda

Vangold Resources Ltd. have increased their land holdings in the West Nile District of Uganda (Kilo Moto) from 400 square kilometers to 1350 square kilometers. Having recently completed a reconnaissance exploration program in the West Nile, and in result of the recent discovery of Kibalian rock formations, (which are the source rocks for the large [...]

Coal-dependent China taps possible new fuel source

China, keen to ease its dependence of coal and oil to feed its booming economy, has tapped a potential new fuel source — “flammable ice”, state media said on Wednesday.
Stable only at low temperatures or under high pressure, flammable gas, or gas hydrates, are extremely fragile and mainly exist either in the seafloor or below [...]