ROMARCO MINERALS INC. announces a major increase in the mineral resources at its wholly-owned Haile Gold Mine in South Carolina. The new measured and indicated resource stands at 1.5 million ounces of gold with an additional 678,000 inferred resource ounces. The new resource represents a 92% increase from the previously announced historic measured and indicated [...]
United Uranium Corp. announced that it has completed a property acquisition on the eastern side of the Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan. The Cleveland Island property is located approximately 30 miles east - northeast of Hathor’s Roughrider zone. This most recent acquisition covers 987 ha of land in the Wollaston Lake area. The Company holds a [...]
Hawk Uranium Inc. is pleased to announce that Geotech Ltd., of Aurora, Ontario has commenced a 2,000 km helicopter-borne Time Domain Electromagnetic Geophysical Survey with a VTEM system over Hawk’s wholly owned Cluff Lake Uranium Project in Northern Saskatchewan. Geotech Ltd. has advised Hawk that it expects to complete this survey by the end of [...]
Crescent Resources Corp. announces that it has signed a contract with Compania Paraguaya de Mineria S.A. for 20,000 metres of drilling on the Oviedo Uranium Project in Paraguay. This open-hole drilling program using reverse-circulation equipment is scheduled to commence in early August.
The open-hole drilling method in conjunction with a down-hole gamma-ray probe will give immediate [...]
Nearly a half-century after it began, the voracious mine fire that doomed this coal town in the mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania continues to burn hundreds of feet underground, uncontrolled and uncontrollable.
The fire began in 1962 at the town dump and ignited an exposed coal vein, eventually forcing an exodus that emptied Centralia of more than [...]
With the spot price of uranium rising at exponential rates, uranium miners are flying high following decades of depressed prices and little new mine development or exploration activity. Shares of Denison and Energy Metals Corp. umped 5% last week following rumours that they were on the acquisition radars of Cameco and France’s Areva, two [...]
International KRL Resources Corp. announced that it has been advised by ESO Uranium that the permits have been granted for the reverse circulation and/or percussion drill program which will cover International KRL’s Carswell project in the Cluff Lake area of the Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan. The claim has been optioned by ESO Uranium. [...]
Global Uranium Corp. and Forum Uranium Corp. are pleased to announce that nine holes comprising of 1,140 metres of drilling have been completed on the Orchid Lake project.
The targets on the Orchid Lake property are shallow, basement-hosted, unconformity-type uranium deposits. The project is located 20 kilometres west of the Cameco/AREVA Key Lake Uranium Mill [...]
Mawson Resources Limited. Michael Hudson, President & CEO, announces the staking of the Stensjodalen and Stensjodalen South uranium prospects in Northern Sweden. The project area lies three kilometres northwest of Mawson’s Klappibacken project and is contained with the 100%-owned Hotagen nr 1 exploration permit of 5273 hectares.
At the Stensjodalen prospect, a granite host rock with [...]
The southwestern United States is especially vulnerable to global warming, but the region can help stop climate change by forgoing new coal-fired power plants in favor of conservation measures and renewable energy, according to a new study.
If more than a dozen new coal plants planned in Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, [...]
