Oriental Minerals Inc. is pleased to announce it has amended payment terms for the acquisition of the Sangdong tungsten-molybdenum project in South Korea. The Company has also secured a $3 million interim loan financing from Longview Capital Partners, its largest shareholder.
Payment terms for the current installment due for the Sangdong acquisition have been amended to [...]
Infinity Energy Resources, Inc., an independent oil and gas exploration and development company, today announced that the regional government council of the Autonomous Region of the Southern Atlantic (”RAAS”) voted to approve the Company’s offshore Nicaraguan exploration and development contracts on July 4, 2008.
“This represents the achievement of a critical objective in our quest [...]
Oil supplies will remain tight despite record prices that have trimmed demand, according to the International Energy Agency.
Downsizing its estimate of how much oil will reach the market, the IEA predicted supply will exceed projected demand only by 2 million barrels a day.
The IEA is the energy watchdog for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and [...]
The Energy Department and the Paris-based International Energy Agency both lowered their global oil consumption forecasts for this year amid surging prices, but said demand for oil and petroleum products is accelerating in parts of the developing world.
In its monthly short-term Energy outlook, the Energy Department’s Energy Information Administration said oil consumption is falling more [...]
Norilsk Nickel expects its net profit under IFRS to slide to $5.3bn in 2007 from $5.96bn posted for the previous year, the Russian precious metals producer said in a memo prepared for the company’s annual general shareholders’ meeting scheduled for June 30. Meanwhile, the document states that, net of damage to business reputation, Norilsk Nickel’s [...]
Galloway Energy Inc., an emerging growth company focused on property exploration and acquisitions in the energy and precious metals sectors, announced today that it has reviewed news releases including assay result of samples taken by other mining companies located near the Company’s recently acquired FraserBend Claim properties located in the Quesnel Trough, in the Cariboo [...]
World Gold Council (WGC), the organisation formed and funded by the world’s leading gold producers, has today announced that it has partnered with a leading Russian jewellery manufacturer, Choron, to bring the Gold Expressions jewellery collection to Russia for the very first time. Choron will present Gold Expressions at the New Russian Style Fair 2008 [...]
Brown coal, a low grade of coal, has been ignored in China because it’s not easily exploited.
But, Victoria state in southwestern Australia, has been seeking brown coal opportunities with China and solving environmental problems by its mining and utilization.
“It’s actually quite significant for China to exploit brown coal because its energy needs have grown, and [...]
Legend International Holdings, Inc, with phosphate projects in the State of Queensland, Australia, announces that it has entered into a long term offtake and supply agreement for a minimum of 3 million tonnes annually of concentrated rock phosphate from its Lady Annie project in Queensland, Australia, with Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (“IFFCO”). Legend and [...]
Norilsk Nickel made a net loss of $916.4 million calculated to Russian Accounting Standards (RAS) in the first quarter of 2008, the world’s largest nickel and palladium company has said in a statement.
Norilsk Nickel posted on Wednesday a preliminary output report saying its nickel production increased 22% to 74,572 metric tons in the first quarter [...]
