DIVERSIFIED and specialist chemical services group Omnia, which yesterday posted a 30% increase in headline earnings per share to 724,5c for the year ended March, said there was significant potential for its mining division to expand into Africa.
CEO Rod Humphris said: “We remain particularly bullish on prospects for coal and uranium mining as a host [...]
Cardero Resource Corp. (”Cardero” or the “Company”) (Toronto:CDU.TO)(AMEX:CDY)(Frankfurt:CR5.F) is pleased to announce that, as part of the Company’s strategy to focus on its pre-eminent Pampa De Pongo and Pampa el Toro Iron Ore deposits in the Marcona District of Peru, it has signed a letter of intent dated June 12, 2008 (”LOI”) with Ethos Capital [...]
Terra Nostra Resources Corporation (OTCBB: TNRO) a majority owner of two joint venture companies in the copper and stainless steel industries in China, is pleased to announce the appointments of Mr. Nai Biao Zhai as General Manager of Shandong Quanxin Stainless Steel Co Ltd. (SQSS) and Mr. Bao Dong Han as General Manager of Shandong [...]
Iraq invited bids from local and international companies for two new oil tankers and another for chemical products.
The country’s fleet of oil tankers was devastated by tit-for-tat shelling during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war and by attacks during the 1991 U.S.-led Gulf War.
Last year, Iraq signed a $65 million contract with China to buy three oil [...]
Currently, global sulfur production is mainly concentrated in Canada, Russia and the Middle East. The global trade volume of sulfur in 2006 reached 27.7 million tons and meanwhile, China imported 8.81 million tons, accounting for 31.8% of the world’s total. According to the statistics, China consumed about 10 million tons of sulfur in 2006, while [...]
Commerce Resources Corp. is pleased to announce the initiation of its 2008 diamond drilling and field work program on its Eldor niobium and tantalum property in Quebec. The Eldor Property is situated about 115 km south of the community of Kuujjuaq, which is located 5 km from Ungava Bay.
The 2008 exploration program is designed [...]
Bancroft Uranium Inc. today wishes to advise the public as to the Company’s strong ongoing commitment to environmental principals, the health of its workers, the community and to the overall protection of the environment.
Bancroft believes that the production of emissions-free electricity via nuclear power generation is the only form of energy for the future that [...]
Sabah can be a major economic force in the country if the plan to build a 300mw power plant by Petronas and Yayasan Sabah as well as the emphasis on downstream oil and gas industry with the proposed construction of a petrochemical plant in Kimanis materialise.
The announcement on the two mega projects by Prime Minister [...]
The head of DuPont Co. says the chemicals producer expects sales to solar energy customers will more than triple within the next five years.
Chief Executive Charles O. Holliday Jr., speaking at the Sanford Bernstein Strategic Decisions Conference, said DuPont expects increased demand for renewable energy sources like photovoltaics — or solar — and ethanol made [...]
Australian nickel mining company, Albidon has discovered exciting drill results at its Sunnyside project, the company has announced.
Believed to be the most substantial nickel sulphide intersections in Botswana outside the Selebi-Phikwe and Tati nickel mining districts, the intersections include 8.6m@1.21 percent nickel, 0.30 percent copper within an intersection of 18.6 metres with grades ranging [...]
