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Mirabela makes first drawing under financing package

August 4th, 2008
Mirabela makes first drawing under financing package

Mirabela Nickel Limited is pleased to announce it has drawn down US$50m under the US$80m bridge financing facility recently announced with Barclays and Credit Suisse. With construction of the Santa Rita project more than 50% complete, ongoing funding of the project has moved from equity to debt.
In addition to the bridge facility, Barclays and [...]

Gastar Exploration Ltd. on Hot property

August 2nd, 2008
Gastar Exploration Ltd. on Hot property

Gastar Exploration Ltd.’s neighborhood’s beautiful day, The post-person delivers, dogs bark, the sun sparkles and the coal beds are full of methane. Not only that, the next-door neighbors find a fortune under their backyard patio. Like the realtors say: location, location, location.
Gastar, a natural gas explorer and producer operating onshore in the United States and [...]

Oil and gas exploration company Sentry Petroleum Ltd to Acquire Largest Land Holdings in Commercially Proven Oil and Gas Basin

August 2nd, 2008
Oil and gas exploration company Sentry Petroleum Ltd to Acquire Largest Land Holdings in Commercially Proven Oil and Gas Basin

Oil and gas exploration company Sentry Petroleum Ltd has just published an announcement saying that it has signed a conditional agreement to acquire Authorities to Prospect #862, #864 and #866 and rights to all conventional oil and gas deposits giving the company an unprecedented land position in the commercially proven Adavale Basin in Australia.
If regulatory [...]

Major Drilling Announces Purchase of Forage à Diamant Benoit Ltée

August 2nd, 2008
Major Drilling Announces Purchase of Forage à Diamant Benoit Ltée

Major Drilling Group International Inc. announced that it has completed the purchase of the exploration drilling company Forage à Diamant Benoit Ltée (”Benoit”) based in Val-d’Or, Québec (Canada) for an aggregate purchase price of $21,000,000 (consisting of approximately $17.5 million in cash and $3.5 million in liabilities) subject to customary price adjustments.
Through this purchase Major [...]

CDC Software Adds Two Latin American Companies to Franchise Partner Program as It Expands in Rapidly Growing Emerging Markets

July 31st, 2008
CDC Software Adds Two Latin American Companies to Franchise Partner Program as It Expands in Rapidly Growing Emerging Markets

CDC Software, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CDC Corporation and a provider of industry-specific enterprise software applications and business services, announced today that it has added two new partners from Chile and Brazil to its growing and diversified Franchise Partner Program, that now totals seven companies.
The CDC Software Franchise Partner Program funds CDC Software’s investments, through [...]

Castle Harlan Agrees to Sell AmeriCast for US$288 Million to Bradken

July 29th, 2008
Castle Harlan Agrees to Sell AmeriCast for US$288 Million to Bradken

Castle Harlan, Inc., the New York private equity investment firm, announced that it had agreed to sell AmeriCast Technologies, Inc., a North American leader in the design and manufacture of large, complex steel castings, to Bradken Ltd., a leading publicly-traded Australian manufacturer of cast steel and other products, primarily for the mining and railroad industries, [...]

Peabody Energy to Acquire Remaining Metallurgical Coal Ownership in Millennium Mine

July 28th, 2008
Peabody Energy to Acquire Remaining Metallurgical Coal Ownership in Millennium Mine

Peabody Energy announced today that it has reached agreement to acquire 15 percent of the Millennium Mine in Queensland, Australia, and intends to acquire the remaining 0.5 percent ownership in the near future.
The company currently owns 84.5 percent of the operation, and intends to purchase the remaining equity interest following regulatory approvals. The Millennium Mine [...]

Cavico Subsidiary Expands Exploitation and Construction at Thung San Mine

July 28th, 2008
Cavico Subsidiary Expands Exploitation and Construction at Thung San Mine

Cavico Corporation, a leading infrastructure development company in Vietnam, today announced that Cavico Mineral Exploitation is expanding construction and exploring for additional deposits at the Thung San mine. Cavico Mineral Exploitation is an entity formed by the two wholly owned Cavico subsidiaries, Cavico Tunnel and Cavico Hydropower.
The Thung San mine, situated on 20 hectares of [...]