Colorado Goldfields Inc. in conjunction with Blue Sky Water Technologies, Inc., of Folsom, California, has proven its ability to treat water issues at its Gold King Mine.
Results from Alpha Analytical, a nationally certified third-party testing laboratory in Sparks, Nevada, showed that Blue Sky’s technology removed five of the EPA’s “contaminants of concern.” Cadmium, copper, manganese, [...]

Retail gasoline prices in Texas remained steady from Sunday to Monday, increasing just less than 1/2 a penny from $3.522 to $3526. Nationally gas prices remained at $3.67 a gallon. There was no increase nationally from Sunday to Monday. Meanwhile, on international commodities markets, the price of light sweet crude oil, which is refined into [...]

POWERTECH URANIUM CORP. announce that activities associated with its mine permit application for the Dewey-Burdock Project, in Fall River and Custer counties, South Dakota, are advancing on schedule.
A new uranium exploration permit application for 30 additional drill holes was submitted to the South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources (SD DENR). The purpose of [...]

MIPSolutions, Inc., a Nevada corporation with offices in Spokane, WA, today announced that third-party laboratory analyses has verified that the Company’s recently developed MIP (Molecularly Imprinted Polymer) bead has successfully separated gold from a gold cyanide solution loaded with mercury without also removing mercury. The MIP bead was first pioneered at the Company’s laboratory at [...]

A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals must decide whether an area of western New Mexico proposed for uranium mining should be treated as Indian land.
Hydro Resources Inc., a New Mexico company, is challenging last year’s decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that an area where the company wants to [...]

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 [...]

Ninety-four pages of proposed rules for uranium mining companies that need to obtain state groundwater permits were too much Wednesday for the South Dakota Water Management Board.
The panel had planned to make a decision on the rules but decided to delay it until a special meeting April 2-3 in Rapid City.
Board members want to know [...]

Rep. Marilyn Musgrave sent a letter Tuesday asking atomic energy regulators to consider water quality as they decide whether to allow uranium mining in Larimer and Weld counties.
Musgrave, R-Colo., said she’s heard from residents concerned about water quality as a Canadian company prepares to prospect for uranium near the town of Nunn.
Powertech Uranium Corp. last [...]

A state judge denied a request by two environmental groups to temporarily stop test drilling for uranium in Fall River County.
Circuit Judge Jack Delaney said at a hearing Tuesday that the groups had not shown how continuing the exploration would harm the environment.
Defenders of the Black Hills and ACTion for the Environment are challenging a [...]

New York and 15 other states on Tuesday urged federal regulators to put teeth into a proposed pollution rule aimed at making U.S. electric utilities reduce smog and global warming emissions when they expand or modernize their coal-fired power plants.
“Pollution from coal-burning power plants and other facilities cause real problems throughout the United States [...]