Diavik Diamond Mines Inc. (DDMI), operator of the Diavik Diamond Mine, is pleased to provide this first quarter update.
Diavik continued to build on its strong safety record with zero lost time injuries, two medical treatments and an all injury frequency rate of 0.37 during the first quarter of 2008. DDMI was notified that for its [...]
A Federal Appeals Court today vacated a lower court’s decisions that invalidated mining permits in the Lake Belt area of Northwest Miami-Dade County and shut down limestone mining operations in approximately one-third of that area. The appellate court concluded that the lower court rulings of March 22, 2006 and July 13, 2007 were wrongly decided [...]
Coeur d’Alene Mines Corporation said today that the U.S. Forest Service has evaluated public and agency comments submitted on the Draft Supplemental Information Report for the Kensington Gold Mine in Alaska. Based on the responses and agency input, the Forest Service has announced that an Environmental Assessment (EA) is the preferred level of review, which [...]
Brazil’s government is considering ending a state monopoly on uranium mining, Dilma Rousseff, the chief of staff of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is quoted as saying in the O Globo newspaper Thursday.
Private companies have already shown interest to explore Brazilian uranium deposits, among the mining giant Cia. Vale do Rio Doce (RIO), or [...]
Atlas Minerals Inc.. The Company wishes to announce that Atlas Minerals continues to work and consult with the Ecuadorian government and industry peers in order to mitigate the impacts to the Company of the Mining Mandate passed by the Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly on April 18, 2008. These consultations have the specific goal of being able [...]
Then U.S. Energy Department awarded $61.1 million to a multistate environmental partnership to research new ways to capture and store carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
The Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership project, working with Columbus, Ohio-based Battelle Memorial Laboratories, will test ways to store the gases in underground geological formations, and in land occupied by [...]
U.S. state attorneys general are meeting in Idaho for a conference aimed at addressing the location of power plants, efforts to restrict energy use, renewable energy mandates and other energy-related legal issues likely to arise in the coming years.
Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden told his counterparts from across the country that attorneys general are often [...]
Economist Jeffrey Sachs said the U.S. and European Union should reconsider their emphasis on biofuels made from crops grown on land that had previously been used to produce food. Speaking to reporters before an address to EU lawmakers, Sachs said targets to produce more such fuels “do not make sense now in a global food [...]
Oxbow Resources, a company that is using innovative geological concepts and exploration technology to discover new gold and silver resources in well-established mineral belts, today announced the appointment of Mr. James Laird as Vice President of Exploration. Mr. Laird, who has an impressive list of precious and base metal deposit discoveries, brings over 30 years [...]
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 [...]
