Cleveland-Cliffs Inc and Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. announced that each company’s Board of Directors has approved a definitive merger agreement under which Cleveland-Cliffs will acquire all outstanding shares of Alpha in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $10 billion.
Under the terms of the agreement, for each share of Alpha common stock, Alpha [...]

San Juan County residents who are curious about how oil and natural gas are produced can attend a class at San Juan College’s School of Energy.
The class, “The Oil and Gas Industry: An Introduction Story,” will explain the process in easily understood language.
“I start with geology and end up with capping the well,” said course [...]

Monroe Minerals Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of independent advisors to its uranium division in Africa and Canada. The role of these advisors will be to review new uranium projects, assist with program planning and implementation, and analyse exploration results.
In Africa, Monroe has appointed The Mineral Corporation. The Mineral Corporation is a leading [...]

Jeremy Caddy, President of Aldershot Resources Ltd., is pleased to announce that drilling has commenced at its Yuinmery Uranium Project, located 480km northeast of Perth.
Yuinmery has an historical resource of 1,288,000 lbs of contained uranium (see below) but needs redrilling to establish a National Instrument #43-101 compliant resource. The Company advises that a qualified person [...]

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, a gold miner’s son from the top gold-producing state in the nation, is confronting competing political interests as House Democrats prepare to rewrite an antiquated hard-rock mining law.
The minerals mining industry holds huge sway in Nevada and industry is balking at some of the most far-reaching reforms. Reid [...]

Andean American Mining Corp. announced that it has retained the services of CHF Investor Relations (Cavalcanti Hume Funfer Inc.) of Toronto and Calgary, Canada’s longest established and one of its most respected IR firms.
John Huguet, Chairman and CEO, commented: “We are committed to proactively increasing and improving investor awareness of Andean American, in particular its [...]

The state of Montana is ready to settle a nearly 25-year lawsuit against Atlantic Richfield Co. over environmental damage caused by mining and smelting in Butte and Anaconda.
The Montana Department of Justice and the Atlantic Richfield Co. have reached a confidential agreement to settle the final three outstanding natural resource damage claims, according to court [...]

After years of delay, federal regulators have ordered Atlantic Richfield Co. to take the first major step toward cleaning up contamination at a huge abandoned copper mine in northern Nevada that they say poses an “imminent and substantial” threat.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s order to determine the extent of the contamination replaces voluntary cleanup efforts [...]

With time running out for both The U.S. EPA and Anaconda Mine site managers Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) to sign an administrative order on consent (AOC) for overall site assessment and cleanup, a unilateral administrative order (UAO) was issued today and could serve as the next step in the process.
The AOC is basically an agreement [...]

Torrent Energy Corporation announced it has retained U.S.-based Pfeiffer High Investor Relations, Inc., and Canada’s CHF Investor Relations (Cavalcanti Hume Funfer Inc.) to develop and manage a North American investor awareness campaign together. This program will be supplemented with an internet based program contracted through Stockgroup Media.
John Carlson, Torrent’s President and CEO, commented, “We [...]