Strathmore Minerals Corp. is pleased to update progress on its uranium mill and tailings design and studies being carried out by the Company for its uranium projects in northwestern New Mexico. The Company and its Joint Venture partner, Sumitomo Corporation of Japan, have made considerable progress in the evaluation of designing and identifying the optimal [...]

Dejour Energy (Alberta) Ltd. is in its third month of production from its first four well gas wells in Peace River Arch NE British Columbia. Work continues on the production tie in of six additional wells completed during last winter’s drilling activities. Plans for additional development during the 2008/09 winter season are well advanced.
Dejour announces [...]

Polish officials said on Wednesday they feared the worst as rescuers battled to reach 15 miners trapped in a deep coal mine after an explosion that killed at least eight others.
More than 70 rescuers worked through the night and tried to pump air into a tunnel to help them overcome “hell” conditions in the mine [...]

A gas explosion killed at least one miner and trapped 23 others underground in a coal mine in southern Poland on Tuesday, police said.
A police spokesman said the blast occurred at around 4:30 p.m. (1530 GMT) and was probably caused by methane.
“Some 23 people are there right now and there is absolutely no contact with [...]

Tenaga Nasional Bhd has received proposals from several major Indonesian companies to buy its 92.5 percent equity interest in TNB Coal International Ltd, sources said.
PT Adaro, Indonesia’s largest coal producer, and PT Pamapersada Nusantara (PAMA) had submitted proposals to acquire the stake from Tenaga, Malaysia’s largest utility company, the sources told Bernama today.
PT Adaro is [...]