Transmeridian Exploration Incorporated and its wholly-owned subsidiary Transmeridian Exploration Inc. announced that they have extended the consent payment deadline and expiration time with respect to their exchange offer and concurrent solicitation of consents to amend the indenture governing TMEI’s 12% Senior Secured Notes due 2010 (the “Existing Notes”) (CUSIP Nos.: 89376NAC2, 89376NAA6, 89376NAB4, [...]

Currently, global sulfur production is mainly concentrated in Canada, Russia and the Middle East. The global trade volume of sulfur in 2006 reached 27.7 million tons and meanwhile, China imported 8.81 million tons, accounting for 31.8% of the world’s total. According to the statistics, China consumed about 10 million tons of sulfur in 2006, while [...]

A 32-year-old Ukrainian oligarch is planning to launch his $2bn (£1.01bn) iron ore mining group on London’s main market next month. The flotation will be the first full UK listing for a company from the former Soviet republic.
Konstantin Zhevago plans to raise around $500bn by selling a quarter of his holding in Ferrexpo, a mining [...]

Global Gold Corporation (www.globalgoldcorp.com) announced that its board of directors has unanimously elected the following individuals to the corresponding offices:
Van Z. Krikorian, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Michael T. Mason, President & Chief Operating Officer Hrayr Agnerian, Senior Vice President Dr. Ted Urquhart, Vice President Drury J. Gallagher, Chairman Emeritus, Treasurer & Secretary Lester Caesar, [...]

A Russian cargo plane carrying around 330 kilograms (730 lbs) of enriched uranium from Germany has landed at an airport near Moscow, Russia’s nuclear watchdog said.
The uranium was supplied to the Rossendorf nuclear research center, shut down in 1991, as part of bilateral cooperation agreements between the former Soviet Union and former East Germany, the [...]

earlach Resources Ltd. (TSX.V: TEA) Following the acquisition of a 60% interest in the Kern Front Oil Field near Bakersfield, California, the company has created an Oil and Gas Exploration
and Development advisory board, and is pleased to announce the following appointees:
DR. H. M. HELMIG
Dr. Helmig is a [...]

A fire broke out at a coal mine in Siberia on Thursday, trapping at least 19 miners, a Russian emergency official said.
The blaze broke out around 8:15 a.m. at least 280 feet underground in the Vershino-Darasunsky mine in the Chita region, about 3,000 miles east of Moscow, said Emergency Situations Ministry spokeswoman Yulia Stadnikova.
Of the [...]

An oil-driven economic boom has made Angola the toast of the town in boardrooms from Houston to Beijing.
But on the outskirts of the African nation’s bustling capital of Luanda, the talk is not of a more prosperous future but rather of a stolen one.
Led by a collection of reformed Marxists and Western-leaning technocrats, Angola’s government [...]