TRI-STAR HOLDINGS, INC., a publicly traded company currently on the Over the Counter, announced the Company has completed negotiations with Azrock Mining of Arizona to establish operations at the company’s gold mine claims COS 1 and COS 2 in Salome, Arizona. Azrock is now scheduled to begin operations Thursday, October 16 on COS #1. Larry [...]
JAG Media Holdings, Inc. announced that it has entered into a non-binding letter of intent with BlueCreek Energy, Inc. and several other parties, pursuant to which BlueCreek will merge with a wholly-owned subsidiary of JAG Media. In consideration of the merger, the shareholders of BlueCreek would receive at the closing a number of shares of [...]
Gastar Exploration Ltd. announced that it has concluded initial completion operations on two of three middle Bossier sands in the Williams #1 well. The two completed middle Bossier zones have individually tested at gross rates of 3.5 MMCFD and 4.0 MMCFD, respectively. Gastar currently plans to fracture stimulate the remaining middle Bossier sand by mid-February [...]
Joy Global Inc. announced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend in the amount of $0.1125 per share to be paid on September 22, 2006 to shareholders of record at the close of business on September 8, 2006.
Joy Global Inc. is a worldwide leader in manufacturing, servicing and distributing equipment for surface [...]
Full Metal Minerals (TSX VENTURE:FMM.V – News) is pleased to announce that it was notified by the Alaska Mental Health Trust that the Company has been awarded a coal lease covering 22,647 acres. The lease area includes Alaska’s only significant occurrences and past-producing operations of metallurgical coal. In the area of the Chickaloon Coal lease, [...]
Several Chinese workers were taken hostage in the southern Nigerian oil state of Bayelsa, police and industry sources said.
“I can confirm to you that some Chinese have been abducted at Sagbama. I don’t know how many because the details of the incident are still unknown,” Basyelsa state police commissioner Hafiz Ringim told AFP Thursday.
Industry sources [...]
Alcan Inc. announced that is has opened a new Alcan International Network office in Hanoi, Vietnam. The office, composed of a local sales and marketing team, will offer Alcan and its customers expertise in metals, minerals and downstream products.
“Vietnam has shown rapid growth in recent years and is proving to be a highly attractive [...]
Geovic Mining Corp. (“Geovic”) (TSX VENTURE: GMC) is pleased to announce that its 60% owned subsidiary, Geovic Cameroon PLC (“GeoCam”), plans to resume test pitting in February 2007 and drilling in March 2007 at its cobalt-nickel project in Cameroon. The overall program includes 600 relatively shallow drill holes and test pits that are targeted to [...]
National Mineral Development, India’s biggest state-run iron-ore producer, said it will spend a total of 135 billion rupees, or $3.2 billion, to raise output, build steel and iron plants and invest in coal mines overseas.
The company, based in Hyderabad, will invest 35 billion rupees to raise iron-ore production 85 percent, the company’s chairman, B. Ramesh [...]
Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc. announced today that it has filed an acquisition shelf registration statement on Form S-4 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and plans to file a universal shelf registration statement on Form S-3 in the near future. These filings will replace the Company’s existing shelf registration statements on Forms S-4 [...]