Unico, Incorporated, a natural resource company in the precious metals mining sector, today announced the addition of a new photo gallery on the company’s corporate website, www.unicomining.com, showing the company and its wholly owned Deer Trail Mining Company subsidiary hosting the recent United States Geological Survey (USGS) 2008 Marysvale District Field Trip at the Deer [...]

Unico, Incorporated, a natural resource company in the precious metals mining sector, announced that the company and its wholly owned Deer Trail Mining Company subsidiary hosted the recent United States Geological Survey (USGS) 2008 Marysvale District Field Trip at the Deer Trail Mine property.
According to a report submitted by Deer Trail Mining Company Chief Geologist [...]

Waratah Coal CEO and President Peter Lynch said today the Company remains firmly committed to its plans for an export coal project in Central Queensland. The Company wants to open up a new thermal coal resource in the Galilee Basin near the Central Queensland town of Alpha. To date exploration by Waratah Coal (CDNX:WCI.V) has [...]

Haber, Inc.,, a Delaware corporation headquartered in Arlington, Mass., with proprietary technologies for the environmentally friendly processing of gold-bearing ores, announced today that it has agreed to enter into a joint venture with a private party (hereinafter referred to as “Owner”) to acquire certain patented claims in southern Arizona which will then be conveyed to [...]

Johnson Matthey Inc. today announced an agreement with the U.S. government, resolving virtually all government claims of alleged environmental violations at Johnson Matthey’s Salt Lake City gold and silver refining facility.
The case, which centered on claims by the government that Johnson Matthey had violated environmental laws during 2000 to 2002 regarding certain wastewater treatment activities [...]

Marking a new era of partnership in oil development in the province, the Honourable Danny Williams, Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, and the province’s oil industry co-venturers today announced and signed the final deal for the development of the province’s fourth offshore oil project, Hebron. The Premier was joined by: the Honourable Kathy Dunderdale, Minister [...]

The federal government formed an interagency task force to assess developments in oil and other commodity markets.
It is made up of staff from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Federal Reserve, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the departments of Treasury, Energy and Agriculture. The task force will examine oil supply and demand factors, investor [...]

This is a 70 per cent jump on the sector’s current employment levels.
The council is forecasting 6 per cent annual employment growth for the sector – double the Federal Government’s forecast of 3 per cent yearly growth.
The greatest demand will be for skilled trades, with the Minerals Council expecting another 31,000 skilled workers will be [...]

The U.S. Senate Tuesday rejected an attempt to expand offshore oil and gas drilling to allow the states to generate revenue.
The Republican-backed proposal would have allowed states to drill off their coasts and share revenues with the federal government, the (Newport News, Va.) Daily Press reported.
The amendment would have amended a federal ban prohibiting offshore [...]

The export of metals and minerals is expected to grow in the coming financial year as mining projects expand or start production to capture demand from the urbanisation and industrialisation of emerging economies.
The federal government said in its 2007/08 budget papers that “non-rural commodity exports are expected to grow” as new projects and expansions come [...]