Silver Dragon Resources Inc. announced today that the Company has duly paid the state compensation tax (royalty) for the privatization of the Erbahuo silver mine pursuant to applicable Chinese laws. The payment of RMB 4,468,600 (approx. US$650,000) was made to the local provincial department of China’s Ministry of Land and Resources, the agency responsible for [...]
Liberty Star Uranium & Metals Corp. (the “Company”)(OTCBB:LBSU) is pleased to announce that the CEO/President of the Company, James A. Briscoe, and the CEO/President of Mayo Gold Explorations Ltd. (“Mayo Gold”), Pedro Villagran Garcia, have signed a Letter of Intent to joint venture the El Papago Project (“El Papago”) in Sonora, Mexico and the Tombstone [...]
The uranium mining company that started a project in Goliad County has received a draft mine permit from the state.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality issued the draft permit to Uranium Energy Corp. and will accept public comment for 30 days, a news release from the uranium company stated. This would be the first such [...]
Another British-owned mining firm, Semco Exploration and Mining Corp. has been granted two exploration permits by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to search for gold, copper and other minerals in Agusan del Norte.
Semco is 99.98-percent owned by Semco Minerals Plc, is investing a total of P6.325 million to conduct a two-year exploration [...]
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 [...]
Dragon Mining announced that a permit has been granted by the Western Finland Environmental Permit Authority for the dewatering of the decline and mine workings of the Vammala nickel mine in southern Finland. It advised further that dewatering will enable an assessment of the condition of the decline and main production levels to determine the [...]
Sterlite Industries (India) Limited (“Sterlite”), a subsidiary of Vedanta Resources plc, the London-based FTSE 100 metal and mining group, and ASARCO LLC (“Asarco”), a Tucson based mining, smelting and refining company, announced today that they have signed a definitive agreement for the sale to Sterlite of substantially all the operating assets of Asarco for $2.6 [...]
StatoilHydro ASA says oil production resumed at the 160,000 barrel per day Statfjord A platform about 125 miles off Norway’s coast, four days after an oil leak forced a partial evacuation and shutdown.
Most of the platform’s 217 crew members were evacuated to nearby platforms by helicopter on Saturday when an oil storage tank began leaking [...]
