Pengrowth Energy Trust (Pengrowth) is pleased to announce that Larry B. Strong, Vice President, Geosciences, will present at the Peters & Co. Limited 10th Annual North American Oil and Gas Conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Pengrowth will be presenting on the topic of coalbed methane projects and the presentation will take place on September [...]
Global energy giants BP, BG and Italy’s ENI are among the bidders for oil and gas exploration rights in India’s latest and largest yet licensing round.
Government officials said that India had closed the sixth round of its New Exploration Licensing Policy, launched in the late 1990s to introduce a more transparent, open bidding process.
It drew [...]
Kodiak Exploration Limited is pleased to report completion of its Phase 1 exploration program at Caribou Lake, NT. By using a combination of geophysics, exploratory stratigraphic drilling and surface exploration, and in conjunction with a team of internationally recognized nickel specialists including Dr. Walter Peredery, Kodiak has identified at least twelve large structural traps, any [...]
LionOre Mining International Ltd, a Canadian nickel producer, said it will choose by November one of six banks from which to borrow $300-million to finance almost half the cost of a planned refinery in Botswana.
The company, based in Toronto, last month received approval from Botswana to build the $620 million nickel plant at its Tati [...]
North American Palladium Ltd. is pleased to announce drill results from a twenty-one hole drill campaign totaling 4,010 metres at the Shebandowan Nickel/Copper Project located approximately 100 km southwest of its 100% owned Lac des Iles Mine, Ontario. The Option Joint Venture with Inco Limited (”Inco”) entitles NAP to earn a 50% interest in the [...]
Listing-candidate Talvivaara Mining’s planned nickel mine in Finland has drawn interest from two mining giants, Canada’s Inco and Russia’s Norilsk Nickel , a Finnish newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Norilsk Nickel, the world’s largest producer of the metal, has been in talks with Talvivaara’s management and is following progress on the new mine, business daily Kauppalehti quoted [...]
The world’s 10th-largest nickel producer, LionOre , has become a takeover target as bigger firms crave its high-growth profile and special refining technology, a company official said on Tuesday.
LionOre, which has mines in southern Africa and Australia, will also probably become the only company whose main product is nickel following a wave of takeover activity.
“We [...]
Patricia Mining Corp. is pleased to announce the latest assay results from the 2006 underground drilling program at the Island Gold Project near Wawa, Ontario. This project is a joint venture operation with Richmont Mines Inc.
The table highlights the significant results from the underground definition drilling on the Island, Island North and Shore Zones. Only [...]
China will meet its rising demand for natural gas by making concerted efforts to develop coal-bed methane, said an executive with the China United Coalbed Methane Corp. Ltd. (CUCBM) on Tuesday.
China’s proven coal-bed methane reserves are 36.7 trillion cubic meters, said Fan Zhiqiang, director with the technological department of the CUCBM, China’s major coal-bed methane [...]
Mackenzie I. Watson, President and CEO of Freewest Resources Canada Inc., is pleased to announce that the Company has commenced an airborne geophysical survey and ground follow-up prospecting program on its George River uranium property (the “Property”). The Property comprises 3,247 mineral claims (7 claim groups) totalling 145,689 hectares (370,000 acres) and is located in [...]
