Universal Uranium Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Crosshair Exploration and Mining Corp. under which Crosshair will acquire all of Universal’s interest in the Central Mineral Belt (CMB) of Labrador, which totals approximately 4,737 claims. Universal and its 40% partner Silver Spruce Resources issued news releases [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold used Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s visit Wednesday to do a little damage control on its controversial mining operation in the Andes.
With a ragtag group of protesters camped outside the company’s high-rise headquarters in the center of Santiago, a Barrick spokesman blamed “professional activists” for giving Barrick — and Canada — [...]
Pele Mountain Resources Inc. announced that mine planning and other scoping studies continue to advance on schedule at its 100-percent owned Elliot Lake Uranium Project in Northern Ontario. The focus of the ongoing studies is to establish the basis for economically viable, safe, and environmentally compliant mining and processing facilities at Elliot Lake where [...]
Canadian Royalties Inc. announces that the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) for the Raglan South Nickel Project (RSNP) was deposited with the Quebec Ministry of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks (MDDEP) on April 10, 2007. In accordance with the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement (JBNQA), the MDDEP is the administrator of the [...]
The Army Corps of Engineers has reinstated a permit that will allow construction of the Rock Creek Mine near Nome.
The permit was issued Aug. 21. The corps suspended the permit Dec. 6 in response to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court by Trustees for Alaska and the Western Mining Action Project.
The plaintiffs took issue [...]
Groups in Alaska have sued the U.S. Interior Department to block an offshore oil and gas lease sale that residents say threatens Arctic marine wildlife and the traditional Inupiat Eskimo way of life.
The North Slope Borough and the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission, in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Anchorage on Tuesday, claim [...]
Western Copper (TSX: WRN) has received formal notification from the Yukon Environmental and Socioeconomic Assessment Board that its proposal for the Carmacks copper/gold project has been deemed adequate and that screening of the Proposal will commence pursuant to the Yukon Environmental and Socioeconomic Assessment Act (YESAA). Western also notes that the technical review of the [...]
