The South Dakota Water Management Board has approved new rules for injection wells for uranium mining operations proposed for the Black Hills region.
The water board approved the rules Thursday after listing to public testimony the previous day.
State environmental officials say it will be at least two years before any mining begins.
Alliances with Chinese steel makers will be the key to determining whether iron ore explorers become producers and exporters, says Australasian Resources Ltd managing director Andrew Caruso.
Mr Caruso was responding to comments by Rio Tinto Iron Ore chief executive Sam Walsh that only a handful of the 90 or so iron ore juniors on the [...]
Among the sector activity stories for Wednesday, March 26, from AP Financial News:
NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of companies that produce nickel, a key ingredient in making stainless steel, rose Wednesday on fresh evidence of China’s growing appetite for the commodity.
NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of regional banks fell Wednesday after an analyst said bad [...]
JPMorgan Chase & Co. will buy ClimateCare, a privately held carbon offset company.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. ClimateCare will be integrated into JPMorgan’s environmental markets group.
The combined entity will create carbon emission reduction projects worldwide and trade carbon emission reduction credits generated by the projects.
March 26, 2008) - Red Hill Energy reported today that further to the December 21, 2007 news release, a National Instrument 43-101 report and assay results have been received by the company on its very significant Chandgana Khavtgai coal project. All three of Red Hill Energy’s coal resources are now National Instrument 43-101 compliant as [...]
Plans to build an ethanol plant near Erskine have suffered another setback, with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency set to recommend that the project, proposed by Agassiz Energy LLC, complete a detailed Environmental Impact Statement before proceeding further. The recommendation comes as a result of the project’s 70-page Environmental Assessment Worksheet and its review process, [...]
The Rs 4,000-crore alumina refinery project of Utkal Alumina International Ltd (UAIL) in Kashipur, Rayagada district, seems destined to be further delayed. The project, which has been hanging fire for the last 16 years, is facing fresh trouble from local inhabitants. “Work on the site has stopped for the last three weeks as project-affected [...]
Victory Nickel Inc. (”Victory Nickel” or the “Company”)(TSX:NI - News; www.victorynickel.ca) today announced that recent re-interpretation of an airborne electromagnetic and magnetic survey identifies drill targets at the Minago nickel project extending to a vertical depth in excess of 1.5 kilometres and confirms the potential for a continuous mineralized body linking the Nose Deposit and [...]
The U.S. Interior Department’s Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sales on Wednesday reaped a record $3.7 billion - the highest amount ever in a U.S. government lease sale - as oil prices hovered above $100 a barrel, the Minerals Management Service said.
Flush with cash from record crude prices, short on reserves replacement ratios [...]
Acquisitive environmental consultancy RPS Group (LSE: RPS.L - news) has boosted its coverage of the oil and gas sector with the purchase of Aberdeen-based consultant Oceanfix International.
RPS is paying £6.5m in cash for Oceanfix, a company which provides hydrographic and geophysical survey consultancy services. The founder and managing director of Oceanfix is remaining with [...]
